tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81885978339151326852024-03-21T13:32:24.008-07:00Challenging Women's Roles through LiteratureCortneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14178964460912292106noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8188597833915132685.post-82133155869641852922011-04-22T04:34:00.000-07:002011-05-01T08:42:51.145-07:00Wollstonecraft & Rossetti: Using Literature to Challenge Traditions of Oppression<span style="color: #93c47d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> T<span style="color: #6aa84f;">hroughout history, women have experienced oppression by traditional, patriarchal society. Cultures across the globe spent centuries teaching and believing that women were inferior to men, and while this belief diminishes as our societies evolve, it is still present in certain aspects of our cultures. </span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfy8gFgdCmbsvsp9G5OFkNIykyuvI0Efg1g-G5rqgxLPe84T4Ip-VvIHrsko6FE1sflPqXR9ttPc94DB0wk6aRYJKfQb-Y4SNXK1RaYKKR8-tFm4mZ7_H4kptuY838FVte5SfDO1o5tQ/s1600/female+symbol.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUVhDwDTRshj4rdYwQp3uZHBXCYT4aBGO_0PjZ3gHSR4ld3U4_5bMTJS2TYzHOVsnARJbek65XbHutIZBXvV4WIePqpYC_etrCeStC1NcDiX5fVm454VFhWSB6pOnmOGfBVUgwQZO0bY/s1600/victorian+woman+looking+down+man+looks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtUVhDwDTRshj4rdYwQp3uZHBXCYT4aBGO_0PjZ3gHSR4ld3U4_5bMTJS2TYzHOVsnARJbek65XbHutIZBXvV4WIePqpYC_etrCeStC1NcDiX5fVm454VFhWSB6pOnmOGfBVUgwQZO0bY/s200/victorian+woman+looking+down+man+looks.jpg" width="163" /></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Returning to the Victorian Era, the English patriarchy expected women to play coy, innocent housewifes and mothers, whose personal needs and desires mirrored those of their husbands. Developed during this time was the </span><a href="http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Cult of Domesticity</em></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, which was a code of conduct for women, explaining the qualities and guidelines a woman must have and follow to be considered a good English citizen.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> Despite their restraints, many females craved higher education, and success in a world of educated, professional, ambitious men. However, and accepted their inferior status, with no desire to pursue anything more. Ambition verses acceptance divided women - those who were brave and willing, challenged the traditional roles. Two of those women were Victorian writers </span><a href="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;">Mary Wollstonecraft</span></em></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> and </span><a href="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html"><em><span style="color: #a64d79;">Christina Rossetti</span></em></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">. Female writers were criticized and dismissed by most; however, these two two writers used their literature to entertain the idea of female success and eventual equality.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">Mary Wollstonecraft</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">Mary Wollstonecraft: </span><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/144/"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia;"><em>A Vindication for the Rights of Women</em></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: purple;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Christina Rossetti: </span><a href="http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/crossetti/bl-crossetti-goblin.htm"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>"Goblin Market"</em></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8188597833915132685&postID=8213315586964185292"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Women's Knowledge and Education</span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">:</span></strong></span></em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Wollstonecraft -</em></span></div><ul><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span lang="">Women should be educated in the same manner as men: </span><span lang="">"false system of education, gathered from books written on this subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human creatures" (291).</span></span></span></li>
<li><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women "acquire manners before morals", because without education, they do not have the knowledge to appreciate or understand morals. </span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span lang="">Wishes to "persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body" (292) instead of accepting the ideals that stem from years of "dependence on men the various relations of life" (293).</span></span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Her (a woman's) first wish should be to make herself respectable, and not to rely for all her happiness on a being subject to like infirmities with herself" (299)</span></li>
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</tbody></table><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span lang="" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Rossetti </em>-</span> </span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">Lizzie - Woman accepting her place, making no effort to succeed otherwise. </span></li>
<li><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura - Woman curious of what lies beyond the simple, female lifestyle.</span></li>
<li><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The goblins and the Goblin Market - Represent the temptations which lie outside the household and caretaking lifestyle of Lizzie and Laura. Regardless of their dangerous nature, they represent possibility of something new and exciting.</span></li>
<li><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Depending on interpretation, Rossetti's poem can be a promotion of female curiosity, or acceptance of female inferiority.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_286122976"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><em>Women's</em> </span></a><em><a href="http://www.thebeautybiz.com/87/article/history/beauty-through-ages-victorians"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Beauty</span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">: </span></em></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Wollstonecraft -</em> <span lang=""></span></span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women are expected to sacrifice education for beauty; "(For women) strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk" (290). </span></li>
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</span></div><ul><li><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">Beauty standards of Victorian Era: </span></div></li>
</ul><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;"> - Victorian men's desires for body shape, facial beauty, and overall beauty. </span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;"> - Expected to look innocent, unassuming and conservative, exactly how they were expected to act.</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Once their beauty fades, women lost value. </span></li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCytjijVTY0fWB0UwmOY_3Ae4ZS9xBC7gASfga_-5dE6Iec8jwZL6VE4Eiyq794c6GSJ-kypOHmKAC2_osfKtFVfB5A96Q9AHuwQobEl5LIr8_dZfcCfnHTEJybiZUbiBD0ImI7zOOzY/s1600/Goblin_Market+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQCytjijVTY0fWB0UwmOY_3Ae4ZS9xBC7gASfga_-5dE6Iec8jwZL6VE4Eiyq794c6GSJ-kypOHmKAC2_osfKtFVfB5A96Q9AHuwQobEl5LIr8_dZfcCfnHTEJybiZUbiBD0ImI7zOOzY/s200/Goblin_Market+1.jpg" width="168" /></span></a><span lang="" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Rossetti</em> -</span></span></div><ul><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura appears as, "her hair grew thin and gray;/she dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn/to swift decay and burn/her fire away" (1657). Laura becomes an aged woman who is useless, with no more "fire", and no more beauty. </span></li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era#Limited_rights_of_married_women"><span style="background-color: white; color: #a64d79;">Women's Independence</span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f;">:</span></strong></span></em></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Wollstonecraft -</em></span></div><ul><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women should not desire anything but "the protection of man" (295), because "women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers" (295), to believe that dependence is their ultimate goal.</span></li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5x-oGkYs4pK2H5IE9NppbgVr3o72_FSNRm2fOHNDncSuwPrXNltfMT6eQXcVi_RkLizzV4aT88tA1lPcZgD692od62wI8-ivanJWlWkV0BCwoUXyFjOzOKmaaA8JL05drdpOHj82_Zk/s1600/victorian+couple+looking+longingly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5x-oGkYs4pK2H5IE9NppbgVr3o72_FSNRm2fOHNDncSuwPrXNltfMT6eQXcVi_RkLizzV4aT88tA1lPcZgD692od62wI8-ivanJWlWkV0BCwoUXyFjOzOKmaaA8JL05drdpOHj82_Zk/s200/victorian+couple+looking+longingly.jpg" width="153" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><li><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women <em>SHOULD</em><strong> </strong>be curious, and unafraid to break out in search of own, individual passions, and independence.</span></li>
</ul><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Rossetti -</em></span><br />
<ul><li><span lang=""></span><span lang=""><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Because of her unquenched desire for the goblin's forbidden fruit, Laura ages and "she no more swept the house,/ tended the fowls or cows/... but sat down listeless in the chimney-nook/ and would not eat" (1657).</span></span></li>
<li><span lang=""><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura knows her true desire, and as a result, no longer finds comfort in her daily duties, risking her life to experience what she wants.</span></span></li>
<li><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura's dependence on her own, unusual desire can be:</span></span></span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">POSITIVE: depicting a woman finding desires of her own, outside of what she is expected to desire. </span></span></span></div><span lang=""><span lang=""><span lang="" style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">NEGATIVE: depticting female curiosity as something harmful, as the goblins are to Laura.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNhUZubIsy4PiC7tonl_by0YWYD9fJJJKUsuDttdpDC-m_qKxfxwNo4z8TFhRPTPMd3gi2ckDDiyJxQZhzxhOClhid-qRpa84n1QLasX6NB0Zv7pWEch0dxO__3X2MGuESdSFcyU2vpo/s1600/Feminism+we+can+do+it.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNhUZubIsy4PiC7tonl_by0YWYD9fJJJKUsuDttdpDC-m_qKxfxwNo4z8TFhRPTPMd3gi2ckDDiyJxQZhzxhOClhid-qRpa84n1QLasX6NB0Zv7pWEch0dxO__3X2MGuESdSFcyU2vpo/s200/Feminism+we+can+do+it.jpg" width="180" /></span></a><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><em>WOMEN NOW!</em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Education</em></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">: </span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">More women than men studying in college undergraduate programs. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women still face some discrimination, mainly being confined into certain areas of study. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Areas of study include those involving caretaking, such as Human Services, Elementary Education, Nursing, etc.</span> </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Beauty</em>: </span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">More acceptable to define your own style of beauty.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A woman will be judged more harshly than a man for appearance.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Beauty and appearance has become more based around individual preference. </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Independence</em>: </span></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Households run by single mothers, who do all of the housework and caretaking while being the breadwinner. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">More women who were/are never married - they prefer living without a partner, with financial, general independence. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Women can hold higher occupational positions - make more money. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Females voicing their opinions in English and American culture - acceptable and even encouraged. </span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><em>Issues Women Still Face Today</em>: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">* Many of these stem from centuries of patriarchal beliefs and traditions presenting women as the weaker sex.</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">body image/appearance issues </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">respect/disrespect</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">expectations of motherhood and housekeeping</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Georgia;">lower wages/ job discrimination</span></li>
<li><span style="clear: right; color: #6aa84f; cssfloat: right; float: right; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small; height: 214px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; width: 147px;"> <img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwfy8gFgdCmbsvsp9G5OFkNIykyuvI0Efg1g-G5rqgxLPe84T4Ip-VvIHrsko6FE1sflPqXR9ttPc94DB0wk6aRYJKfQb-Y4SNXK1RaYKKR8-tFm4mZ7_H4kptuY838FVte5SfDO1o5tQ/s200/female+symbol.gif" width="130" /></span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">violence/abuse against women (physical, mental, sexual) </span></li>
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