Theme Of Patriarchy In Gwen Harwood's In The Park

Gender Equality Throughout America’s history, women have struggled to obtain basic human rights, gender equality, and general respect from men. These issues continue on into our current day-to-day life and will seem to continue for many years to come. In American literature, there are two women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, amongst many, who voiced their struggles as women in America. Stanton’s piece, “Declaration of Sentiments”, is a revised version of the “Declaration of Independence”, and it outlines the many rights women have been withheld from.

During the 19th century, women were overshadowed by the men of their household, therefore they had no sense of independence nor dominance. In Mary Freeman’s short story, “The Revolt of Mother,” the author presents Sarah Penn, a woman who takes a stand against her husband. In the beginning, the reader learns that Sarah is a hardworking mother and wife. She maintains the household work and meets her children needs. She is suddenly confused of her husband’s actions concerning their future.

To put it differently, the father keeps watch of “nothing” and, in turn, no one—not his wife, not his only child, and barely himself. As a result, the mother is bearing the weight of watcher, lover, and caregiver. Of course, their marriage could have been much more intimate in the early stages before it withered away with time, the addition of a child, and life itself, which hardens even the most benevolent

Women through history struggled to fit in a life were men have the most important roles and the whole world in their hands. The battle for a woman to be seen as a person in her own privilege, characterized her own terms, by her own judgment and achievements, wishing the same open doors as men have and practice. There is no role for women in the society back then even in marriage, she can’t choose whom to marry, and basically women role is forgotten in the society at the Restoration era. So in this research paper I will discuss one of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s poem Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband. In which a woman blamed for infidelity lashes out against her glaringly double-crossing spouse, against the patriarchal lawful framework that permits

It is heavily demonstrated that women are reliant on men when O'Connor describes how the Grandmother lives, “Bailey was the son she lived with, her only boy” (O’Connor). This suggests that because the Grandmother seems to

This Elizabethan sonnet by George Gascoigne is a tortured self-confession of one “He” who “looked not upon her.” Gascoigne effectively illustrates the speaker’s paradoxical feelings for a woman through a series of literary devices such as extended metaphors, imagery, and alliteration, developing an easily identifiable conflict between the speaker’s desire for his lover and fear of being hurt again. The first stanza introduces us to the central paradox of the poem: why does the speaker “take no delight” in ranging his eyes “about the gleams” on his lover’s beautiful face? To answer this question, the speaker employs two extended metaphors that vividly illustrate this conundrum.

It was almost as if she hated me.” (Grande 92) This is important because the return of their mother was for a reason nobody would have expected, Mami was full of angry emotions and vaguely showed it when treating the children she abandoned. The reader of my essay might relate to seeing the change in someone after being absent for so long. Though a mother chose to be absent through her children’s adolescence, they still chose to hold so much love for her when she returned though she came back full of anger and

Parenting has been a long practice that desires and demands unconditional sacrifices. Sacrifice is something that makes motherhood worthwhile. The mother-child relationship can be a standout amongst the most convoluted, and fulfilling, of all connections. Women are fuel by self-sacrifice and guilt - but everyone is the better for it. Their youngsters, who feel adored; whatever is left of us, who are saved disagreeable experiences with adolescents raised without affection or warmth; and mothers most importantly.

In “Bedecked”, Redel raises attention about the different approaches to parenting in a situation when a parent’s son is more flamboyant than society would deem acceptable. Redel can handle the criticism and “other mothers looking”, but wanted none of it to change the purity of how her son “loves a beautiful thing not for what it means- / this way or that”(16-17). She ends her poem by asking readers if their “heart was ever once that brave”, for going against social norms and not confining to them (21-20). In addition to the older woman and younger man double standard, Calbert's “In Praise of My Young Husband” lists examples of the world’s different romances to note that there is not just one single type: “young lovers like to drink too much / and make a drunken, careless love, / why couples always cook so much” (19-22).

This becomes evident in a lack of information about the type of society, and the reader therefore lacks a complete understanding of how the women are oppressed. As a whole, this poem sets forth the idea that female gender is fluid, and asks its readers to questions what it means to be a woman in a male dominant

The different key features also plays an important role for example the tone that is being formed by the lyrical voice that can be seen as a nephew or niece. This specific poem is also seen as an exposition of what Judith Butler will call a ‘gender trouble’ and it consist of an ABBA rhyming pattern that makes the reading of the poem better to understand. The poem emphasizes feminist, gender and queer theories that explains the life of the past and modern women and how they are made to see the world they are supposed to live in. The main theories that will be discussed in this poem will be described while analyzing the poem and this will make the poem and the theories clear to the reader. Different principals of the Feminist Theory.

“To the Ladies”, written by Lady Mary Chudleigh, is a poem that expresses feminism, and gives women a taste of how they would be treated in a marriage. Chudleigh displays this poem as a warning to women who are not married yet, as she regrets getting married. She uses such words that compares to slavery, and negative attitudes toward future wives to warn them. Back in this time period when the poem was published in 1703, women were known as property of men and you won’t have an opinion or a say so. The poem expresses a life of a naïve woman, who is bound to marriage by God, and she cannot break the nuptial contract.

In these short poems, the authors utilize particular rhetorical techniques and methods to reflect the speakers’ personality and motivation. Therefore, presenting the speaker becomes the main focus of the authors. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” both poems reflect the speakers’ traits through monologue, figurative language, and symbolism. However, these two speakers’ personalities are different due to their attitude toward their beloved. The speaker in Sonnet 18 is gentle and delighted but frustrated because the ideal metaphor comparison of summer is not perfect for describing his beloved; the poem thus suggests that the way you love others reflects how you feel about yourself.

In her poem, “Jocasta” published in the 1960s, human rights activist Ruth Eisenberg emphasizes how women were constantly suppressed and deemed inferior to men. She supports this claim by using Queen Jocasta and King Lauis as stand-ins that represent the stereotypical societal roles of men and women, during the 1960s, while also utilizing metaphors and aggressive diction. Eisenberg’s purpose is to highlight the awful treatment of women and the abuse of power by men. Throughout her poem, Eisenberg utilizes metaphors to highlight the maltreatment of women and to exemplify the pain they endured.

Not only does Shelley use this to provide commentary on how early women are boxed off into their stereotypical roles by the patriarchy, but also on how they become trapped. This is highlighted by the differences in the lifestyles of Victor and Elizabeth following adolescence; Victor is free to become an academic and pursue his deepest desires that have been cultivating since he was a child, but Elizabeth, who Victor made reference to as “following the aerial creations of the poets,” is relegated to a life as a mother and given far less choice in comparison to Victor. This once again brings Mary Wollstonecraft’s commentary on the lack of education given to women to mind, with Shelley subtextually questioning if Elizabeth would have sought out such a life if not forced into it. Elizabeth’s assimilation into patriarchal desires corresponds with her increasing sparsity in the book, rarely appearing other than in short, concentrated amounts spread out throughout the book. Shelley uses this structural technique to reflect how patriarchy perpetuates women’s loss of identity and individuality as they conform to what they ‘should be,’ much in the vein of her mother’s