Let's Get Down to Business
To defeat the man.
Gender Roles in Society
Throughout history, many women have had to be controlled by men due to the gender roles placed on them by society.
The Story of an Hour
It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
Why should a free woman with a college education either fight Macho-man or serve him?
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
Women as women are largely excluded from, alien to, the self-declared male norms of society.
In these two pieces, it is shown that women are having to be controlled by the man causing them to be miserable and lead a miserable life and have to try and match up to the man's standing point.
The Story of an Hour
Free! Body and soul free!
The Story of an Hour
She said it over and over under her breath: free, free, free!
The Story of an Hour
Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own.
In these quotes, it is shown that Mrs. Mallard is finally feeling free and open and to have her own time and can finally lead her own life once her husband is gone.
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
Human beings are called Man, the only respectable god is male, the only direction is up.
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
...help your husband too and keep our country strong and be a success in everything.
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
Well, is that what you went to college for? Is that all? What about success?
Throughout "A Left-Handed Commencement Address", women being are said to be lesser than man by having to look up to them instead of themselves. They are also said to help their husbands and the world a stronger and better place and that women only do that because they have nothing else to do with their college educations.
Bibliographies
Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour." Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories. Edited by Sandra Gilbert. New York: Library of America, 2002.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Project Gutenberg. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Le Guinn, Ursula K. "A Left-Handed Commencement Address." Mills College, Oakland, CA., 1983. Commencement Address.
Sophocles. Antigone. F. Storr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Web.
Biography
Kayla Bray
school email - Brayk15386-17@students.nederland.k12.tx.us
personal email - kmbray0622@gmail.com
English II - 8
February 25, 2015