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Personal Relationships: Men and Women - Papers

Personal Relationships: Men and Women

Danyell Young
IRW 009-006
Mr. Bishop
August 10, 2016

Personal relationships: Men and Women

Gender roles are the way people act, what they do and say, to express being a woman or a man. These characteristics are shaped by society. In "The Angel in the house" Virginia Woolf states how women conform to society, but also how it hard for them to do so in the same breath. The real trouble about women is that they must always go on to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they always have done. Although society's role in our identity is large, I believe that it is the parents who have ultimate control of how we become as males and females, in the early stages of life, and ...

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for creation of great art, because the angelic ideal (her morals that's been instilled in her and society) mandates that they put men and family ahead of their own projects. Its solely meaning that during the 1900s it was uncommon for women to become writers during that time, they were supposed to be home makers, tending their family needs, instead of focusing on their own.
Also in the reading she states "they (women) must charm, they must conciliate, they must-tell lies if they are to succeed," meaning that women writers were uncommon so in order to publish their work they went under secret names (men names) in order to get published. Women put on this faУЇade in order not to get caught. The angel in the house was the type of women that most women were meant to be according to men; selfless and sacrificial whose sole purpose was to flatter, soothe and comfort the males of the world population.
In the reading Virginia says "it was she who bothered and waisted my time and so ...

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Added: 9/19/2016 05:28:16 PM
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