Albert Camus Biography and Critics

Feminist theory is an approach of analysis or discovery a literary text to get better understanding. It grew up on 1960s when the women's movement occurs. At first," the movement" tends to have equality on gender because they make big differences between woman and men. In this aspect, woman in the culture seem to be the minority and seems to be weak and passive. It is undeniable that in every society, men are thought to be independent, aggressive, competitive, and physically strong in contrast with women who are thought to be passive, emotional, and physically weak. Despite the fact that "typical feminist" are weak and uncooperative, feminists disagree about many matters including gender inequality. Apart from gender, this theory associated with political, economic, spiritual, and social equality in woman.

This theory also allows us to see immediately needs in terms whole goals in seeing how crucial and important for us to focus on feminist theory. Feminist theory depends on the fundamental assumption that will aid the liberty of woman. In addition, it is an effort to bring deep inspection onto the movement and various female experiences together with research and data gathering to produce new approaches to understanding the ending female oppression. This theory is crucial to the survival and the right of feminism.

Woman's Dependency and Independency

Feminism. This term establish the images of unattractive women that have been abandont by the family, while have to stand with the disloyalty of her husband, or exclusion of women from political as well as aesthetic. These are misrepresentations of feminists. Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" and Susan Glaspell's "Jury of her Peers" are both concern with independence in women.

This research paper will focus on the comparisons of independence in women in two different short stories, 'Jury of her Peers' by Susan Glaspell and 'I Stand Here Ironing' by Tillie Olsen.

"Female independence and interdependency on their surroundings"

In "I Stand Here Ironing", Olsen spells out very clearly dilemmas faced by the mother raising children during the Great Depression. This story closely related with the author's real life as she experienced the pressures of raising children while working outside the home and the deprivations of the Great Depression. It is through her short story, "I Stand Here Ironing" we as a readers experience horror through the experiences of the mother taking care her children by her own. A close look in this story reveals how the mother's fights over childbearing, working on numerous jobs to care her children and the lone parenting besides showing the struggle of the lower class citizen in that era which triggered us to write on feminist issue highlighted