Student Written Evaluation Document The stimuli for my devised piece is ‘Machinal’ written by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell and premiered on Broadway in 1928. Treadwell wrote the play based on the true events that unravelled around New Yorker Ruth Snyder who killed her husband in her unhappy marriage and was executed by electric chair; Ruth was the first woman to be executed by electric chair since 1899 which provoked the significance of her story. Treadwell explores the themes
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In what ways is your appreciation of both texts enhanced by a comparative study of identity in Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen? In your response‚ make detailed reference to your prescribed texts. Fay Weldon’s epistolary non-fiction Letters to Alice (1984) enables the further understanding of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) achieved through the intertextual connections explored‚ in which offer a postmodern interpretation and discussion of Pride
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Greek mythology has sometimes thought to be the building blocks of our modern society. Aside from a male dominated culture‚ there are few differences in the way we live our lives today compared to thousands of years ago. The story of Penelope and the Suitors is a good example of a woman’s loyalty and respect to her husband without being asphyxiated by patriarchal community. Both Penelope and the Suitors by J.W. Waterhouse and “Penelope” by Dorothy Parker use the myth of Penelope’s suitors to show
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Recently‚ preserving the female’s rights has been a heated focus worldwide. Both narrators‚ Alice Munro from “Boys and Girls” and Diane Francis from “We haven’t come that for after all”‚ demonstrates the female stereotypes from their perspectives. Alice Munro understands her mother’s control and wants to run away from her. Meanwhile‚ Diane Francis finds the defect of females’ rights in business life and decides to correct it. Both the narrators are disturbed by the female’s stereotype; however‚
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How is Blanche’s illusionary world broken down in the play by others? In the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ there is an on going battle of rivalry between Stanley and Blanche‚ resulting to Blanche retreating into a world of illusions in order to protect herself. The two come from completely different societal worlds and have contrasting personalities‚ Stanley being powerful‚ controlling and strong and Blanche‚ being fragile‚ weak and vulnerable. Despite their
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In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard has to be gently told that her husband has died tragically. Her sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind‚ she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her‚ she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they
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Laura Walker 10/20/2014 Rhetorical Analysis of ‘What’s Wrong with Cinderella’ By Peggy Orenstein Using personal experience‚ Peggy Orenstein‚ discusses the impact businesses such as Disney and Mattel have on reinforcing gender roles. The fact that she is a mother discussing her own struggles gives the piece a more casual and personal tone. She is speaking to those like her. Having a conversation with the readers causes the piece to be well-rounded. While she does not address the reader directly
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Elizabethan Era: xxx Ms. Khirthanah‚ a historian‚ known to have revealed the secrets behind the uprising Elizabethan era. So Khirthanah‚ could you please tell us about how was the family’s lifestyle during 1500s? (....every Sunday) xxxx: Interesting! Can you give us more information about the differences between a woman’s lifestyle in late 1500s and today? (...of herbs available to them) xxxx: When you said that a family was dominated by men‚ what was their job other than ordering the
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continue to change. Women are in pursuit of dominance‚ leadership‚ they are beginning to become the overachievers challenging these traditions. These traditions can be otherwise be known as Patriarchy‚enforced and used in various religions. Christianity for example‚ “There are two important aspects about Christian Patriarchy. The first is the belief in the importance of male headship or authority‚ and the second is the belief that men and women have vastly different roles to play” (Anne para 2). Many Christians
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Patriarchy is a system of society where men are the supreme authority. They control everything and women have none or‚ if any at all‚ very little power. Patriarchy was the foundation of Mesopotamia‚ Ancient China‚ and Aryan India. It created a structure on how life would be lived and who would control what was going on in the society. Mesopotamia was very specific when it came to the laws. The Code of Hammurabi was very straight forward in the sense that woman controlled nothing. If the husband
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