Essays on Gender Roles

Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ inhabits the liminal space between a licenced misrule of Saturnalia and austere social structures that govern its society. Once rigid institutions of gender and love are destabilised within the play through archetypal representations being triumphed by deviating forces of change. The epitome...

In Susan Glaspell’s short play Trifles, the reader is met with the ongoing case of John Wright’s murder. One moral that the play depicts is that women and men see things differently. According to the male characters, the women only care about issues that have...

The play ‘Trifles’ is an artistic representation of the fluid nature of gender roles in our continually evolving human society. Even during the times during which the play was written, the role of men and women in society was, apparently, a constant question; fodder for...

Through time gender roles continue to change and shape the economy in many ways. In today’s society, women are breaking through their defined roles and embrace being seen on the same level as men. Both characters feel trapped by husbands and want to be free,...

A play can be analyzed in a variety of ways. One of these ways is through the plays theme. The theme more often than not can be developed through the stories plot. According to Literature: A Portable Anthology, the words plot, character, and theme mean...

Feminism has always been represented in pieces of literature to reinforce the idea that objectifies woman and uphold masculine dominance. The writings of Ovid majorly influenced William Shakespeare as he attempts to challenge some of the social constructs. He develops alternative feminine voices in his...

An open theme in “The Woman Warrior” is how females play a role in the public and family life in China, Chinese communities, and American families. Throughout the book, they are seen as being a financial burden to most families. Kingston is a very detailed...

The Sun Also Rises is a novel by Ernest Hemingway that shows the attitudes of the “lost generation”. Hemingway writes about post War World I events how it has affected the characters and changed their view of themselves. The war has changed the characters due...

Unsatisfied and unfulfilled. When being restrained from one’s inner true desires, these are the common feelings associated with such situations. In the excerpt from the novel The Rainbow by D.H Lawrence, the Brangwen family lives a life lacking of intricacy, that is mostly ruled by...

Both Angela Carter and Rossetti seek to explore the ways in which women challenge and overcome archetypes. They present this through the women being victims of sexual desires by men. However, both text covey a sense of sisterhood and solidarity between women as this can...