The life of the Indian Muslim woman is shaped by her dual identity as an Indian and a Muslim. The just and fair tenets of Islam as a religion often do not come to the aid of the Muslim woman‚ posited as she is within the hierarchical Indian tradition and the male dominant Muslim community. The minority status of the Muslim community in India leads to the privileging of community identity over gender identity and basic human dignity is often denied to the woman. The Muslim male orthodoxy rigidly and
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a theme common in the films‚ ‘The talented Mr Ripley’‚ ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Titanic’‚ where individuals attempt to overcome the void between social classes by different means. It is through symbolism and narrative techniques that a Marxist approach
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The image of woman in fiction has undergone a radical change in the 21st century. The Indian woman writers have moved away from portraying a traditional self-sacrificing woman toward a self-expressive individual woman. The chaste‚ patient‚ self-denying‚ dependant woman is no longer a female lead. Instead‚ the female characters are projected to be successful in their quest for identity and individuality. A number of women writers have made their debut in 1990s‚ generating novels which revealed the
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A short literary analysis of Maxine Kingston’s classic “No Name Woman” As part of the first generation of Chinese-Americans‚ Maxine Hong Kingston writes about her struggle to distinguish her cultural identity through an impartial analysis of her aunt’s denied existence. In “No Name Woman‚” a chapter in her written memoirs‚ Kingston analyzes the possible reasons behind her disavowed aunt’s dishonorable pregnancy and her village’s subsequent raid upon her household. And with a bold statement
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A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis "A Woman Mourned by Daughters"‚ by Adrienne Rich‚ is a very descriptive poem in which two women are speaking to their dead mother. There are several parts to this poem starting from the when the mother dies‚ and moving gradually backward to when the daughters were young girls. It begins with the daughters sitting in their mothers kitchen‚ "mourning" over their mothers death‚ only they aren’t upset or crying (Lines 1-3). They are "spent" (drained and
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Raynasha Grant Dr. Fynboe ENC1102 16 November 2014 Why I stayed It happens more times than we care to admit. A woman leaves her family to marry the “man of her dreams.” They believe it will be a change for the better‚ but most women end up in a relationship that they are not happy with‚ much like the character of Cleofilas in Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Woman Hollering Creek.” Cleofilas decides to leave her home town and get married to fulfill her dreams of a more wonder life style in the United
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deep walls that separate a man and his cell mate from everyone and everything in the outside world. These confinements and institutions usually have no color or any kind of beauty to look at or gaze upon. In these prisons‚ what do 2 men that are lost in their own world with two different views on life supposed to do? Do they interact with each other? Manuel Puig imagines this in Kiss of the Spider Woman through the two protagonist in the text‚ Molina and Valentin. Valentin is a political activist
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preordained and summoned many from near and far. Our theme…The Power of a Travailing Woman in Prayer…will be power-packed‚ mind-blowing and phenomenal. The word "Travail" means to labor‚ lament‚ and groan as a woman in pain. Oh yes‚ some of us pray‚ but many have not positioned themselves before the throne of God and literally cried out and let our Lord share His heart and reveal to us His burden for this dying world. When we lay before Him and sincerely hold on to the horns of the altar
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In this poem the speaker is a woman. The majority of the poem she talks about what it means to be a woman in her day and age‚ how it limits her speech‚ and allows people to make unfair conclusions about her. As far as she is concerned‚ her critics can’t even begin to look past the fact that she’s a woman‚ or imagine that a woman could do something other than work in the kitchen. Although the tone in the poem is often light-hearted‚ the author‚ Anne Bradstreet‚ is very critical of those who restrict
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Wonder Woman as portrayed in the comics‚ captures the audience of many girls and even boys. What is it about these superheroes that attract the reader? Readers are looking for the excitement and the interesting aspects portrayed in the story line‚ and these super heroes provide that. Steinem brings out the thrilling thought process that could be taking place in the reader’s mind‚ in her Wonder Woman essay‚ when she states the following. “Some girls love to have a man stronger than they are to make
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