FEMALE GENDER ROLES IN MODERN ART Throughout the history, the society’s perception towards women had drastically changed. Women had been shunned, locked away inside houses, and identified to be the weaker sex. However, they learned eventually to rise and stand up from those that suppressed them. In a similar manner, they fought arduously for the whole world to hear their voices and to proclaim their significance to humankind’s mission to greatness. With this in mind, various forms of literature have been aiding women ever since in their long-time battle for an environment that is free from gender injustices. Significant to this are the books titled, “Age of Innocence” and “Sultana’s dream” because both of them portrayed women who had defied the …show more content…
The book “Age of Innocence” was penned by Edith Wharton who was the first woman who ever won the Pulitzer Prize. She wrote the novel in the early 1900’s when women were bound by traditional customs and norms of the Victorian society (Lee). Similarly, the life of every woman was already dictated. Their childhood and teenage years were spent for growing up to be prim and proper and to metamorphose into the most ideal wife while the rest of their life was devoted to serving their husbands, taking care of their children, and to always look exquisite and alluring in the eyes of everyone (Beach). Likewise, those who had dared to flee their marriages for whatever reason would be defamed for it was the worst crime that a woman would be able to commit. The novel followed the story of Newland Archer, a lawyer who was betrothed to May Welland, and Countess Ellen Olenska, who had gone from Poland after separating with her husband and by all means, the cousin of May. To begin with, Newland was attracted to Ellen when she first came