A Sister Woolf Summary

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Why does Woolf create a sister for Shakespeare? What is the point she is trying to make? What elements of this essay are still true today?
She created a sister for Shakespeare to show that despite being talented, women were not seen at the same level as men. Woolf, shows that how gender indifferences in old times created barriers for women to attend school. Parents discouraged their daughters to study and encouraged to get married at a very young age. Moreover, Woolf illustrates that women were mocked that they are no better than men, when the manager ridiculed the fictitious sister of Shakespeare by saying, “no woman, could possibly be an actress”. Sadly, the fictitious sister was denied any chance to prove herself and became impregnated by the actor-manager Nick Greene. Due to disappointments and denied chances, the fictitious sister kills herself. Woolf, shows that women writers have more obstacles to face than men due to the gender inequality. At the end of the essay, Woolf grieve over numerous female writers whose courage were crushed whose opinions were shelved, ignored, or smothered. Many elements of this essay are still true today. In some countries, women are still not allowed to go to school and are encouraged to marry …show more content…

I believe that the results would differ if college students were assigned the essay now. For men, I’m not sure if results would be much changed, but for women there will be different results. Women are far more independent then they were in 1980s. Their role have shifted out of the home and into the workforce and out of marriages and into independent living. Women are capable of doing same things as men. They can now go to places alone and stay out at night alone. In today’s society the roles of men and women have changed. Many men are stay-home dads while women are the breadwinner. In a research, it was found that men are happy to stay home and adapt to female roles such as doing house

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