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Writing Women's Lives

Word Count:252  In this documentary, we hear a lot of stories from women writers and some of the struggles they went through with how many hours they would spend writing and how hard it was for some of them to get their works published the way they were originally written. I focused on how a few of the women stated that their publishers would not approve of their writings and would ask if they could make their writings more focused on the elegance of their lives rather than the realism of the world they would attempt to write about. These women spoke about how they enjoyed writing with an energetic aesthetic and more of a risk with their works. Publishers even disapproved of these women writing about immigrant women as they did not want to spread this sense of cultural collision that was growing prominent. It is interesting to hear about how many of these women are realists and desire to write about what is really going on in the world and how they are being affected by it. Another...
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Maya Angelou Poems

 Word Count: 352 " But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams  his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream    his wings are clipped and his feet are tied    so he opens his throat to sing." I chose to analyze this particular poem of Maya Angelou called "Caged Bird" as I felt it demonstrated a strong contrast between someone who is free and someone who is restricted from life in some way. Angelou created a tone in her poem that represented freedom and happiness felt by the free bird and a tone that represented loneliness and sadness felt by the trapped bird. The use of imagery in Maya Angelou's poems greatly helps readers to envision their own version and interpretation of the poem. In this particular poem, the reader begins reading the poem with the imagery presented to represent a bird flying through the sky with the sun shining on it as it meant to represent freedom and happiness. She then changes the mood completely by representing imagery of a bird that...
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Harlem Slang

 Word Count: 330 "What I want to steal her old pocketbook with all the money I got? I could buy a beat chick like her and give her away. I got money's mammy and Grandma change. One of my women, and not the best one I got neither, is buying me ten shag suits at one time." Overall, Harlem Slang involves a conversation between two men that are primarily bantering about money and women. It struck me as a very degrading conversation in which the two men were consistently trying to prove superiority over the other with the money and women they have. This particular quote was at the very end after they had just spoke to a woman who was much more confident in herself and stood up for herself to these men. She was also claiming to have money and accused the men of wanting to take her pocketbook as she left. Therefore, in this quote, the men are referencing her comment and the one man states that he did not have a need to take her pocketbook. There is a sense of excessive pride an...
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The Yellow Wallpaper

Word Count: 258  "Then in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern-it strangles so;" This quote is very strange and has a very creepy and almost insane feeling behind it that may make readers feel very uncomfortable. The main woman of The Yellow Wallpaper has essentially gone crazy from her nervous depression and it is causing her to see this woman who is trapped in the pattern of the wallpaper. I feel as though there may be a connection to her going insane with her husband's control over her. Her husband restricts her actions by telling her that she is sick from her condition of nervous depression and that she must stay home and rest. He is constantly telling her she needs to stay home in which she is forced to sit around and do nothing but stare at this inquisitive wallpaper. Over time, she loses he...
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Mrs. Dalloway

 There were multiple parts of this movie that stood out to me. One part in particular was the fact that Virginia Woolf wrote in the part of Clarissa and Sally kissing. It is very strange to watch a movie that is set in the early 1900's that involves a homosexuality component as it was very frowned upon in the past and has only just very recently become more accepted in society. Another part that stood out to me was the mental torment that Septimus went through after he came back from the war. He was constantly representing his anguish as he had what they called back then to be "shell shock" and was constantly having hallucinations of his friend dying in an explosion. It was very sad to see that he killed himself over the torment of the war. It is related in the movie as Mrs. Dalloway almost feels envious that Septimus was able to end his life of torment and she desires to end her life of depression as well. Mrs. Dalloway's characterization changes a lot throughout the...
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The awakening part 2

Word Count: 253 "  E DNA CRIED A LITTLE  that night after Arobin left her. It was only one phase of the multitudinous emotions which had assailed her. There was with her an overwhelming feeling of irresponsibility. There was the shock of the unexpected and the unaccustomed. There was her husband’s reproach look- ing at her from the external things around her which he had provided for her external existence. There was Robert’s reproach making itself felt by a quicker, fiercer, more overpowering love, which had awakened within her toward him. Above all, there was understanding. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. But among the conflicting sensations which assailed her, there was neither shame nor remorse. There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life ...
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The awakening part 1

Word Count: 262  " I T WOULD HAVE BEEN  a difficult matter for Mr. Pontellier to define to his own satisfaction or any one else’s wherein his wife failed in her duty to- ward their children." "It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idol- ized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privi- lege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels." These two quotes are within the same chapter but relate to the characterization of Mrs. Pontellier who was considered to not be a "mother-woman". The characterization of a mother-woman is recognized in the quote to be a woman who does anything and everything for their children and husbands and find it to be the greatest honor to do so. It is even recognized in the first quote how Mrs. Pontellier is considered to have failed her duty as a wife and m...
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