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

The Struggle of Women in Lowells Patterns and Sorrells From a countervail Address cleaning woman is not born, feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote. She is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that mother of the earth, slut of the universe but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so. Dworkins name relates to women throughout history who have been forced to conform. Although women can be regarded highly in society, representing images of fertility, security, and beauty, many people still view them in stereotypical shipway some people believe that all women should act a certain way, never letting their true selves shine through. Amy Lowells Patterns and Helen Sorrells From a Correct Address in a Suburb of a Major City accurately portray the struggles of women in relation to conformity. Through contrasting descriptive details, symbols, and language, the authors image the plights of two remarkably similar women wh o wish they could break free of their social confinements as women. In both poems, certain details of the characters lives give the reader an notion that the women live pleasant, well-to-do lives, while others give an idea that the women are suffering this contrast helps to depict the confusion and inner struggles the women are facing. Although they live lives of riches and glamour, they wide 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 woman described is hurrying class As I wander down The garden-paths. My dress is richly figured . . . Just the pla... ...ther they express the realistic conflict there is between the two. Outwardly, the characters conform, but, inwardly, they keen-sighted to be free. In real life, most people do not sway to a definite side or another on the contract of conformity and rebe llion, but rather, as these characters do, experience a complex inward struggle and conflict with the ideas. Works Cited Lowell, Amy. Patterns. Literature The Human Experience. Ed. Richard Abcarian and Marvin Klotz. New 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 transnational <http//www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_dworkin_andrea.html>.