Barbara S. Alva Professor Lizzie Louis English 102 April 3rd‚ 2015 Looking through “A Sorrowful Woman” and “Secret Sorrow” 1. FIRST RESPONSE. How did you respond to the excerpt from A SECRET SORROW and to “A Sorrowful Woman”? Do you like one more than the other? Is one of the women – Faye or Godwin’s unnamed wife – more likable than the other? Why do you think you respond the way you do to the characters and the stories – is your response intellectual‚ emotional‚ a result of authorial intent‚ a mix
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Phenomenal Woman is a dramatic poem by Maya Angelou about the love a woman has for herself even with her flaws. This poem is meant to be performed in front of an audience because the poem’s body movements reflect her flamboyant actions as she performs on stage. The speaker is a strong‚ confident woman (possibly Angelou) whom men seem to be incredibly attracted to. This is odd because the woman seems to not consider herself beautiful. Through her poem‚ Angelou speaks to all women‚ beautiful or
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The Strength of a Woman Zora Neale Hurston’s famous novel Their Eyes Were Watching God tells the compelling story of an African American woman‚ Janie Crawford‚ and her journey to find herself. In the time period of this novel‚ women are stereotypically seen as inferior to men. They do not speak their mind‚ they are reliant on their husbands‚ and they do as they are told. However‚ this is not true of Janie‚ the novel’s protagonist and narrator. Janie is a strong female role model who defies the
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and constrictive in many ways. Compared to the role of a woman today‚ the role of women in 1950 had different expectations‚ roles‚ and opportunity. Society had placed a high significance and many expectations on the performance at home as well as in public. Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles‚ such as a caring mother‚ a hard-working homemaker‚ and a submissive wife. “The perfect mother was supposed to stay home every day and nurture her children so that society would accept them. A hard-working
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The Woman Warrior While reading The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston it makes the reader wonder how our ancestors dealt with their everyday lives in the 1920’s. What we consider hard labor and sacrifice; they might have considered a mini vacation. We could go out about our lives and not have to worry about anybody but ourselves. They had to deal with everyday criticism from the people in their neighborhood‚ watching their every move and every choice they made. Kingston talks about an aunt
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The Death of Woman Wang In the novel‚ The Death of Woman Wang‚ Jonathan Spence illustrates life in T’an-ch’eng‚ a country in Shantung province. Spence writes his story in the perspective of local people in order to portray real life feelings and emotions. The main characters described in this book are the peasants. Spence gives a voices to those who are voiceless as not many people write novels in the perspective of peasants. He uses three sources of information. The first of these sources is the
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realises there is more to Alice Drablow than he originally thought. At the funeral‚ he sees a woman dressed in black and with a pale wasted face with dark eyes‚ who is watched in silence by a group of children. Over the course of several days‚ while sorting through Mrs. Drablow’s papers at Eel Marsh House‚ he endures an increasingly terrifying sequence of unexplained noises‚ chilling events and hauntings by the Woman in Black. The hauntings included the sound of a pony and trap in difficulty‚ which were
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independent woman. Independence in women has got to be one of the greatest jumps in the history of television. For years in the entertainment industry women have been represented as a subservient service to the husband and children‚ incapable of doing anything great with themselves other then fulfilling their duties as a housewife and mother. Today‚ they are known to be capable of anything. Whether it is being a single mother‚ to being able to provide for herself‚ in pursuit of her dreams or even
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Pretty Woman. The quintessential romance Pretty Woman (1990) staring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is essentially a modern day fairy tale where the underprivileged young woman meets her handsome prince and lives happily ever after. The film resonates the same narrative formula as classic fable Cinderella‚ in that the film’s protagonist Vivian (Roberts) plays a prostitute who is bought for a week by wealthy businessman Edward (Gere) for everything but the standard reason‚ sex. Pretty Woman contains
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The Courageous Woman As a woman leader‚ Elizabeth Blackwell strived to become someone in life. She influenced mothers‚ children‚ wives‚ and sisters and showed them how strength could lead them to their dreams. Her family and friends discouraged her‚ but she kept going in her own direction. They told her how impossible it would be to become a woman doctor and she asked them why she should not be a doctor. They had no reasons to tell her‚ but even if they had one‚ it was not useful‚
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