The Penelopiad Analysis

Even though she is seen over doing her role as a mother and as a wife but there have been times when she has revealed her true self as powerful and confident. The author criticizes the fact that it is not always the case that motherhood demands the suppression of feminism and the sexuality of women. This can easily be defined by deriving the examples of everyday life. The women today are scattered in all the professions in spite of the fact that they have a family to look after. Women are pilots and soldiers, and their sexuality does not restrict them to play their responsibilities as mother and wife.

By Ariel Levy’s definition, “female chauvinism” and “raunch culture” describe women who believe men are inferior and women objectifying other women and themselves, respectively. While females, to a certain extent, have always and will always be objectified by the media, it has not become more pervasive in recent years. If anything, the sexualization and objectification of women has been mediated due to advancements in gender equality. There has been a gradual switch in cultural expectations of women from codependent lady who needs a strong man to take care of her to competent woman who can take care of herself. This role transformation, while seemingly so, is not a kick in the ribs to men.

One woman in this story was raped and was on a boat. When she delivered her baby, her baby died. So, in despair, she threw her dead baby off the boat and herself. But some women seem to have hope and anger. For example, " ‘if i knew some wanga magic, i would wipe them off the face of the earth.’ (Danticat 7)” Soldiers were scared of these women with such hatred and anger because they are afraid of what they will do to rebel.

A reader is presented with this marvelous descriptions, but a picture of that person, church or memorial would only help in the understanding. She does however provide pictorial evidence of the textile work of these women. Although the majority of the book talks about the elite women, when Garver adds the last chapter about the textile work, she gives life to the women who created the pieces. In the text, she writes “women of low and servile status performed the bulk of textile work,… and women of high social status almost certainly directed much of that work”. It is clear that these elite women didn’t do these works, but women in general were able to produce these crafts.

Taking care of her husband was far more important than her looks because looks fade, but loving and sharing a life is forever. While giving his daughter away, Janak speaks highly of his daughter to Rama. Basically, letting him know how she will be as a wife. Now bound by marriage, Sita is let go from her father’s care and handed over to her husband, Rama. Once again Sita’s wifely duties is tested when Rama gets banished to the forest for 14 years.

Throughout the novel, the women are depicted primarily as semi-feminists. They are neither fully feminist or fully anti-feminist because they all uphold as well as destroy typical misogynistic beliefs. However, given that any form of feminine power was unaccepted at this time, the women of these tales display an unprecedented level of self-pride. Though the feminist waves had a more resounding impact on women’s roles, Chaucer's characters can be seen as foundational. In addition, the archetypes associated with these women continue to exist even

She is adopted by the wealthy Miss havisham who takes her in as her own. Estella's attitude and characteristics were greatly reliant on how Miss Havisham. Instead of being taught values such as hard-work, kindness and honesty as she might have in a regular household, the affluent Miss Havisham teaches her how to be cruel. Miss havisham shaped her into the woman that she wished she had been; beautiful and refines but cold and heartless, someone who breaks hearts instead of having her own heart broken. Even Estella recognizes this, saying to Pip, “You must know… that I have no heart... Oh!

Alice Walker the author of “Beauty: When the other Dance is the Self”, struggles with her appearance due to the traumatic experience she suffered as a child. She was shot in the eye with a copper pellet, causing her to have a glob of whitish scar tissue affecting her appearance. This traumatic incident is the beginning of a very emotional problem for Alice. She suffers from anger, shame, and lack of confidence. The purpose of “Beauty: When the other Dance is the Self” is to instruct readers with her continuous struggle of her own perception of beauty throughout her life and how she was able to overcome that and see beauty within herself.

In the story “Boys and Girls”, the narrator discuss that she does not changed any traditional stereotype. It is clear to see when the salesman say that “Could have fooled me, I thought it was only a girl.” The narrator uses the word “fooled” and “only” show that people still has bias on female, she does not resist the female stereotype successful. Meanwhile, the info-text express that then women changed the traditional stereotype a lot, In the text that “women have been liberated, foe the first time in history, but it has only allowed u to scratch and claw our way to the middle.” The writer uses an example to show that women already changed little but still far away. Thurs, the changed on the stereotype is really hard although it is changed a

She had all the qualities of statesmanship in her. To be true we have not given women ample opportunities to develop their in born qualities. If given education, opportunities and facilities, a woman can become a Newton, or Einstein in our country. In our country she performs double role. Besides competing with men outside home in every field, she is still a good house wife an able mother and a dutiful wife.