Blog Post 5

My research topic is Female Roles in literature. My family is Dominican, and it wasn't until long ago that Dominican Republic had a democracy. When the country was facing a dictatorship, women were limited to their rights. Women were taken advantage of a lot and society was very traditional. What i find interesting is how the country has developed after democracy was allowed, and how many people are still stuck in those traditional ideas. Some women still feel that they have no say and are limited to rights and this can easily be related to female roles in literature. I want to take a look at strong female leads or characters in stories and how they have changed throughout literature. One challenge i am facing is that the topic i broad. I need to figure out a way to narrow it down to a more in depth topic to research.

Blog Post 4

The topic that have chosen for my paper is Female Roles in literature. I chose this as a topic because it is one that interests me at a lot. I know that back then circumstances were different. Society was patriarchal and women had little to no rights. I wanted to examine the different gender roles from throughout different literature and compare them. I wanted to compare the higher authority that men had in comparison to the little authority women had. Women were expected to behave in a certain way and for that reason I admire the Wife of Bath's tale. Although it was told by Chaucer, it think what he did was very clever. He told the story in the way of a woman who is telling her story through experience rather than the traditional story telling that came from women. This is a big deal because it was probably controversial at the time. My research question will be how has female roles changed throughout literature.

Blog Post 3

Farid Ud-Din Attar's The Conference of the Birds, consists of a couple of poems. Overall it these poems are an allegory for the Islamic sect, Sufism. The poem consists of many metaphors. Attar actually used the birds as metaphors for different types of sins and he gives the birds human qualities. In the story, the birds are metaphorically in search of purple and learning about spirituality. Although, the story is told in the perspective of birds, it's underlying message is one that all audiences can relate to and apply to their own lives.