Category: Feminism

Anne Stevenson- ” I thought you were my victory /though you cut me like a knife”(Stevenson 1-2) The opening lines of Anne Stevenson’s poem The Victory set a toneof conflict. This poem, at its surface, expresses a mother’s thoughtson giving birth to a son. Stevenson describes the mixed feelings manymothers have upon the delivery of …

Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquivel – a writer who uses her experience in life in writing her novels. This paper aims to discuss the novel through Feminism- the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. This theory will be further discussed with the use of the …

Analysis of King Solomon’s Mines’ undertone of SexismDuring the nineteenth century, women were viewed as inferior to men. Men also saw women as prizes as well as possessions. We can see this undertone in the book King Solomon’s Mines by H.Rider Haggard. Here, the writer uses Lyn Pykett’s essay Gender, Degeneration, Renovation: Some Contexts of …

The context in which a text is placed changes its purpose and allows it to be interpreted in a variety of ways. The function, perspective and audience of the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly differs greatly to the film Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Kenneth Branagh in many ways. Importantly, Kenneth Branagh’s film was made for …