Are They The Problem?
How Women Are Portrayed In Literature
Welcome back to Proper Dyktation with Sprite, Piper, and Grace. This episode is called Are They The Problem?. Here, we’ll talk about how women are portrayed in literature.
Intro to Topic [how women are portrayed in literature]
- Background information
- The way women have been written in literature is very reflective of how they were perceived throughout history.
- They are mostly portrayed as wives and mothers.
- Also as weak and feeble individuals that submit to the situations around them.
- They are expected to be passive, gentle and caring, and most often valued for how they looked, not what they did.
- Female characters had to accept authority without any choice of freedom and independence.
- Parameters of the episode
- As we said, we’re going to be talking about women's portrayal in literature, more specifically, in; A Streetcar Named Desire, Kite Runner, and Fences.
Segment 1: Examples in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Blanche
- Very unstable
- Easily and strongly emotionally attached
- Desperate
- Poor People pleasure
- Anxious and paranoid
- Manipulative
- Arrogant
- Insecure
- Hopeless
- Loud
- Damaged
- Villanized
- Blanche is portrayed as a character with a lot of issues, but rather than sympothized for she is blatently torn apart with accusations of lying, discretion, and adultery, which she happens to be guilty of. Blanche has always been an insecure girl, too preoccupied by her looks to have a care for how she received what she had. She was always a people pleasure who tried to hide her age. was messed up after her husband shot himself because he was gay, right after Blanche found out the truth and exclaimed she hated him. Following her husbands death, she was surrounded by death of her family until she was left alone with rich estates assets and inheritance. Having no knowledge of how to properly maintain this lifestyle and being...
