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Patriarchy, Feminism, and Gender in The Steel Brassiere

Muhammad Faruq Bukhori 13020117140087 Take Home Final Test Patriarchy, Feminism, and Gender in The Steel Brassiere by Irish Sheila G. Crisostomo The Steel Brassiere is a short story by Irish Sheila G. Crisostomo, this story takes the story of the life of a woman who in her day was a victim of oppression for her husband. The Steel Brassiere story contains elements of patriarchy, feminism, and gender in it, for that I will analyze all three, the method I use also through close reading. 1. Patriarchy Patriarchy here means a social system where the man holds power in the domestic sphere (home) and dominates the woman (his wife), male figure in the form of a father or husband who has authority over his property, his wife and children [1] .In the story of The Steel Brassiere , the patriarchal figure in the story is the husband of the narrator, Lindoln. This characteristic of Lindoln is described as being stingy, like to regulate, and like to scold his wife and even includ...

Patriarchy, Feminism, and Gender in The Yellow Wallpaper

Muhammad Faruq Bukhori 13020117140087 Patriarchy, Feminism, and Gender in The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman In the story of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte, I found a view of patriarchy, feminism, and gender. This story is packaged so unique because from the background of this story the author wrote about the social role of American women at that time. In the following, I will describe the interpretations of patriarchy, feminsime, and gender contained in this story. 1. Feminism Interpretation As the main character of this story, Narrator has experienced a lot of criticism and control from a man namely Sumai himself. She (the narrator) was forbidden to write and to give an opinion, even went out to work she was not allowed by her husband. This can be seen in the following fragment of the story. I even said to John one moonlight evening, but he said what I felt was a draught, and shut the window. There comes John, and I must put this away,- he hates t...

Review of Novel and Movie: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Muhammad Faruq Bukhori 13020117140087 FILM AND LITERATURE ASSIGNMENT NOVEL AND MOVIE: OLIVER TWSIT It said that both Film and Novel tell long stories with a wealth of detail and they do it from the persepective of narrator, who often interposes a resonant level of irony between the story and the observer. Film and novel are totally different while novel tell people the story and film show people the story. The images in the film have more direct and immediate relationship to what it describes, while reading a novel requires imagination. The film audiences could receive the information from both images and sounds, while the novel readers only from the text . In this paper I would like to tell you about the major differences between oliver twist novel and oliver twist movie. Oliver Twist novel was written by Charles Dickens while Oliver Twist movie was Roman Polanski’s adaptation and this movie released in 11 th September 2005. The setting in book and movie is about or...