Midterm Assignment : Women and writing Since the beginning of times, human beings have found various ways to express themselves and more specifically how to declare their feelings and emotions. We all know that art (in a general term) is supposed to be the tool used for expression. People fro...

Feminism at its WorstIn her social commentary, A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, one of the most prolific feminist authors of the modern day, writes an exhortation of women and their stifled intellectual and creative abilities. Through fictionalized examples and specific facts, Woolf encouraging...

Sylvia Plath is an immense flagrant writer, for her recognition of her feministic perceptions expressed in her well-crafted poetry, during the critical feminism era of the 1960s. Feminism is the belief that women realise their less powerful status towards men, therefore women believe they can reach ...

The Yellow Wallpaper illustrates the narrator's plight in the Victorian era. The main character, the narrator, is a woman suffering from depression in a time when women were totally dependent on men, and often dismissed as being nervous and hysterical females. The inability of women to become act...

For centuries, women have sought out to endow oneself and society; to implode fiction; to create clearinghouses of ideas without the interference of man. Alas, the glass ceiling is broke; the door unlocked. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf skillfully, using the technique of stream of ...

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" broke new territory in suggesting that the reason there were very few acknowledged women's writers at this time was because women lead hard lives in comparison to men and that the conditions needed to produc...

Anne Bradstreet and Adrienne Rich are two of the most important female poets in the American literature, their writing sharing some common features as well. Their poetry seems to be made according to Adrienne Rich's definition of poetry: " I believe that poems are made of words and the b...

Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl is one of the most important literary works in Persian language. The central theme of the story is an attempt toward the resolution of the writer/narrator's dualistic experiences of the real versus unreal, the sensual against the spiritual and death as opposed to life. ...

English 101When We Dead AwakenRich uses many poems in her essay as examples of change in her writing. Some of which include: "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers," "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law," and "Planetarium." There are also many examples used in his "Sources" page. All of these poems add up toward the...

\"It\'s not as easy as it looks!\" Well, that much was certainly true. I was sitting at a metal wheel. I had a pedal under my right foot. If you\'ve ever used a sewing machine you know the kind of pedal I mean. There was a lump of clay on the wheel. It spun round and round, but it wasn\'t round...

A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" broke new territory in suggesting that the reason there were very few acknowledged women's writers at this time was because women lead hard lives in comparison to men and that the conditions needed to produce women writers was not conducive f...

Convention and Resistance: The Story Behind The Yellow WallpaperIn "The Yellow Wallpaper", a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the conflict centers around the narrator's inability to maintain her sanity in a society that does not recognize her as an individual, but as a woman. The convention and r...

Alice Walker's novel, The Color Purple, follows Celie down the winding road of her life. As a poor black girl living in the South, Celie endures and overcomes many hardships. As the novel opens, the readers learn that she has been raped repeatedly by her father, then later is forced into a loveles...