Sarah Grimke was a woman who fought for the eqaulity if sexes and whom did not accept the wrongdoings of slavery brought upon them. Grimke then became a leader for women’s rights and abolition to be able to express her strong viewpoint towards the way women were treated. In 1838, Grimke published letters, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, in which revealed her criticisms and possible solutions. Mentioned in Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, Grimke indicates the deficiencies of “the butterflies of the fashionable world.” She is referring to the class of women whose main purpose in life is to attract men with their looks in order to get married.
Depending on which piece of the collection is viewed, vertical parallel or horizontal lines varying in weight stretch across the composition. The vertical lines give Germaux’s piece a strong and stable feel, whereas the horizontal lines provide a more calming feel for the viewer. The repetition of parallel lines in Parallel Play creates beauty through dissimilarity. The predictable order of the parallel lines contrasts the stir of circles located adjacent and causes the lines to beautifully model simplicity and structure. In addition, by painting dark contour lines around the colorful circles, Germaux is able to aid the viewer in distinguishing the individual circles and identifying the beautiful pattern that they
Since the beginning of literature, women have been depicted as devious individuals. As a result, women put use to this stereotype to get what they want. This is proven, especially in medieval literature. Examples of this are shown in works like “Macbeth,” * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” and “The Canterbury Tales”.
Abrie Berkowitz Honors English 3-4 Summer reading project 2014 A Thousand Splendid Suns A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel containing three parts, 367 pages, and 51 chapters. Khaled Hosseini broke the story up into parts, by character: the first one dealing with Mariam, the way she grew up, and her life, the second part with Laila, her upbringing, and “modern day” life, and the third with Mariam, Laila, Rasheed, and their lives together. Each section of the book contains its own chronological order, dealing with the lives of the characters only included in that section. Khaled Hosseini also utilized foreshadowing from the start of the novel.
This interesting artwork is an extreme abstract artwork. The second floor consists fancy ceramics and sculptures from ancient time of the Native Americans, Africa, and France. The second floor is always dim lighted, but each artwork is well placed in a transparent box and a light focused on the artwork. Walking down the hallway on the first floor along with these interesting water paintings relaxes viewers. Colorful ceramics, detail paintings, meaningful sculptures, interesting architectural wires, and fascinating photos.
Throughout Tina Rosenberg’s Necessary Angels, the unforgiving and deprived lifestyle of rural Indian women reveals the inexorable reality and fragilities of gender roles amongst women in labor. As a result, many of these unfortunate women barely cling to life due to a trickle-down effect that far surpasses their capabilities and intentions. Fortuitously, an effort to not only impugn this rooted problem, but to resolve this plague has been met head on with a few brave individuals, mostly being women. This short essay examines how these efforts have emblazoned the harsh reality, these women go through and invigoration of women’s individualities of rural India.
On Thursday, the 25th of October, I attended the opening reception for Gregory Alan Smith’s “Antithesis”. I chose to attend this art show to view artwork that I’ve never seen before. I observed many sculptures hanging from the ceiling and attached to the side of the walls. In my opinion, the sculptures were a mixture of cool and warm colors. I noticed most of the art work had some neutral colors involved in them.
In the story “The Story of an Hour” Mrs. Mallard thinks her husband dies from getting in an accident and she doesn't react like people think she should. The feminist lens is represented through most of the story. The feminist lens looks at how women are supposed to act and be in society and focuses on if the do a action that is manly or not. In the story when Mrs. Mallard’s husband dies she hides how she truly feels from everyone else and goes in a room to express it. She doesn’t cry forever she only cries for a little bit.
The medium executed in the canvas is oil paint. From the original location, the artist intends viewer to visual the painting in only one orientation. The painting is located directly in front of the viewer. This critique points the description, thorough analysis and viewers judgement of the artwork.
In Recitatif, Morrison introduces her readers to an approach to the initial interpretation of racism made by the readers. By contrasting Twyla and Roberta's appearances, social lives, and occupations, the readers are able to grasp on to the differences of the two characters. After finally meeting since their last encounter, the readers can depict the tone of tension between the two ladies, hinting that the protagonists have changed overtime. Toni Morrison challenges the initial assumption made by the reader on race and racism through the literary device of foil, contrasting the protagonists, Twyla and Roberta. Morrison compares and contrasts the appearances of the characters, making the readers assume the race of the characters.
Giovanni Boccaccio sets The Decameron in a time period when women are regarded as holding lower social position than men in a community. In the Biblical text, the roles of women are almost always severely restricted. Women are not allowed to hold power or have a significant position in a society, but to maintain in the positions of wives and mothers, who only care about family. In The Decameron, Boccaccio reveals that women could hold an upper hand role in the relationship of male and female. Boccaccio exceeds the role of women, contrary to church teaching by depicting women as patient, more lustful, and more intelligent figures than men.
It is reflected in the concept of chastity, a patriarchal value. It is one of the most powerful yet invisible cultural fetters that have enslaved female for ages. There has been enough literature, both oral and written, glorifying this enslaving value and deifying the female characters who observed it faithfully. The Ramayana in which Sita undergoes the fire ordeal to prove her chastity to Rama has been the cultural guide to Indians for more than two thousand years. The ethos of the Indian society does not permit women, to violate the norms of patriarchy in their pre or post-marital phases.
As a point of departure, to trace the gap between the aesthetics of ‘fine art’ and ‘popular visual culture’, I look briefly at the aesthetic criteria that signified modern art, and
In the first decade of the 20th century the ongoing experiments with pure form continued. A group of designers in Glasgow, Scotland became well known for their use of form and their inspired designers from all over the world. “Although the Glasgow group received a cool reception in the British Isles, designers in Austria and Germany were inspired by the move toward geometric structure and simplicity of form.” (britannica) The quote shows that this group’s work had become well known and it inspired others from all over the world.
Women in Mahabharata and Today’s Society Literature reflects the norms, condition, and culture of a society, and when it comes to “The Mahabharata”, an epic which is said to be a collection of stories taken over a certain period, certainly reflects the then society to a great extent. Generally, the authorship of “The Mahabharata (The Stories of the Descendants of Bharata)” is attributed to sage Vyasa. However, it was composed over many years and today’s Mahabharata is an edition of many a men. According to Monier Williams, “it is not one poem, but a compilation of many poems, not a Kavya by one author, but an Itihasa by many authors (Draupadi of Mahabharat: History of Women Empowerment, 230).” Many attempts has been taken till date to reveal the composition period of this epic and history behind it as it is granted as one of the most important scriptures from the view of World History which can give us more clear ideas of ancient Indian society.
