Essays about: "Feminist Criticism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 68 essays containing the words Feminist Criticism.

  1. 16. Coming of age in Victorian America : challenging gender roles in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

    University essay from Högskolan Kristianstad/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Lina Killmer; [2021]
    Keywords : Gender roles; feminist criticism; femininity; nineteenth-century literature; coming of age; Little Women; domesticity;

    Abstract : This essay argues that Little Women does not promote breaking stereotypical gender norms and nineteenth century gender roles, contrary to what several critics say. This paper will be using feminist criticism and analyzing two of the novel’s main characters, Meg and Jo, and examining their behavior towards stereotypical gender norms and rules. READ MORE

  3. 17. Blinded by Angels, Monsters, Mad Women, or Mothers : The Struggling Break from Patriarchy in Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Satvinder Sue Munde; [2021]
    Keywords : Patriarchy; Hegemony; Misogynistic; Feminism; Gynocritics;

    Abstract : This study attempts to shed light on the psychological mindsets of two minor femalecharacters in two fictional stories, Lady Capulet, the mother in Romeo and Juliet (1597), and Mrs Bennet, the mother in Pride and Prejudice (1813). The stories are set centuries apart by two different English authors. READ MORE

  4. 18. Strength in Numbers : A Feminist Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Mårten Wahlström; [2021]
    Keywords : The Color Purple; Alice Walker; literature; feminism; feminist analysis; womanism; psychoanalysis;

    Abstract : The Color Purple (1982) is a well-known feminist work of literature written by the ‘womanist’ Alice Walker. This analysis sought to analyse Walker’s novel in order to identify and discuss the criticism of patriarchal power relations in the novel. READ MORE

  5. 19. Stereotypical images of women in Dickens’ Great Expectations and Wood’s East Lynne

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Emma Hedman Jonsson; [2021]
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    Abstract : The purpose of this essay was to analyze the stereotypical images of women in Great Expectation by Charles Dickens and East Lynne by Ellen Wood, using feminist literary criticism as a theoretical perspective. The stereotypical images that were found were Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s sentimental stereotype, virtuous woman, the sensuous woman, and liberated woman; and Ferguson’s woman alone, submissive wife and the bitch. READ MORE

  6. 20. Gender Construction in Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre : A Comparison

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Julia Uusitalo Kemi; [2021]
    Keywords : gender; gender construction; Wuthering Heights; Jane Eyre; gender norms; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë; identity; gender roles; Victorian gender roles; Victorian gender norms; sex; gender; femininity; masculinity;

    Abstract : This essay analyses and compares gender construction in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The focus is on the construction of the female and male gender of selected female and male characters. READ MORE