Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Critics

Biological differences that distinguish male and female sex through culture are still outstanding. Men are considered to be stronger and more important gender; women play a weaker role. In each culture, expectations for how men and women behave are influenced by the ideals and customs of culture. In most of the mainstream culture men take on the role of leader and women give life to their husbands. Throughout history, tradition and literature provide a template for various cultural identities.

Feminist criticism: Feminist literary criticism helps us to see literature from a different perspective. It applies the philosophy and thought of feminism to the literature we read. There are many kinds of feminist literary theory. Some theorists check how languages ​​and symbols are used and how the language and usage of symbols are generated. Other people remind us that men and women are writing differently and analyze how the sex of the author influences the way literature is written. Many feminist critics are studying how to describe characters, especially female characters, and how to describe how the depiction of female characters strengthens or weakens the stereotypes of sex Feminist literary theory also indicates that reader's gender often influences our response to text. For example, a feminist critic may argue that one male writer handles readers like all men and eliminates female readers.

Feminist criticism emerged in the 1970s, and women entered dialogue on literary criticism. Feminist critics focused on how male writers express their women's role, how to strengthen or challenge the typical social norm of women's role, and the expression of attitudes toward men's personality and gender It is. Feminist criticism also focuses on discussing women writers and making them dialogue. Among the boundaries we discussed now, feminist critics may point out that Othello considers Desdemona to be a beautiful thing, not a real person. He is afraid of hurting her beauty by hurting her skin, but he believes she should die because he betrayed him. Described as deceiving him, Desdemona violated Othello 's perfect image and pedestal. He compared his skin even with Alabaster, which was used to make statues.

We have seen how feminist critics are worried about the objectivity of Desdemona's beauty in Othello's monologue. Othello says "Her skin is whiter than snow," so a critical racist adds to it that the beauty of Desdemona is expressed in racial language. After a while, the beautiful ideals of Europe and America often link "white" and "fair" with appeal. On the contrary, as Othello himself said, dark skin is considered ugly when he said that his face was "begging" or being dirty (III.iii.442). Othello, a black man living in an Italian Caucasian, accepts their view on beauty, so he thinks he is ugly. Then for the critical racist, the drama is mainly about Africans trying to become part of European society.