Comparing Women in Lowell’s Patterns and Sorrell’s From a Correct Addre

The Struggle of Women in Lowells Patterns and Sorrells From a be name Woman is not born, feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote. She is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes figure of this, symbol of that mother of the earth, slut of the universe but she never becomes herself because it is prohibit for her to do so. Dworkins quote relates to women throughout history who have been squeeze to conform. Although women can be regarded highly in society, representing images of fertility, security, and beauty, many people be quiet view them in stereotypical ways some people con human facer that all women should act a certain way, never letting their unbowed selves shine through. Amy Lowells Patterns and Helen Sorrells From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City accurately impersonate the struggles of women in relation to conformity. Through contrasting descriptive details, symbols, and language, the authors depict the plights of dickens remarkably similar wome n who wish they could break free of their social confinements as women. In both poems, certain details of the characters lives give the reader an characterisation that the women live pleasant, well-to-do lives, while others give an idea that the women are injury this contrast helps to depict the confusion and inner struggles the women are facing. Although they live lives of riches and glamour, they long for something that surpasses the material aspects of life, allowing them to experience freedom from their many social confinements as women. Lowell writes many details in Patterns that lead the reader to believe the charr described is upper class As I wander charge The garden-paths. My dress is richly figured . . . Just the pla... ...ther they express the realistic troth there is between the two. Outwardly, the characters conform, but, inwardly, they long to be free. In real life, most people do not sway to a definite side or another on the issue of conformity and rebelli on, but rather, as these characters do, experience a complex inward struggle and conflict with the ideas. kit and boodle Cited Lowell, Amy. Patterns. Literature The Human Experience. Ed. Richard Abcarian and Marvin Klotz. innovative York St. Martins Press, 1996. 291-293. Sorrells, Helen. From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City. Literature TheHuman Experience. Ed. Richard Abcarian and Marvin Klotz. New York St. Martins Press, 1996. 301-302. Quotes by Author Andrea Dworkin. 5 Apr. 2000. Cyber Nation International <http//www.cybernation.com/ victory/quotations/authors/quotes_dworkin_andrea.html>.