A woman’s identity may be that of a mother or a wife,but these stereotypical notions of femininity are artificially constructed and externally imposed,and the inability of individuals to shape the notion of femininit...
The paper focuses on analyzing the female character Portia in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, by adopting feminist theory from Beauvoir, Horney, and Wollstonecraft, and examining some of the social rules in...