A New Beginning for Women
Cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, sweeping, and watching over the children; all tasks of the woman figure. Never really having a voice of their own, women are left in the shadows of the Man and aren't really allowed to become equals with them, no matter what ideas or new directions they may have. The challenge of women becoming aware that they are being left in the dark is a subject that Adrienne Rich calls "The Awakening of the Dead or sleeping consciousness" (540). Women have to become aware of themselves and the things they are open to; allowing them to awaken through a form a re-vision which Rich describes as "the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction" (540).When revising what a women is capable of, this means that in order for the act and actions of a woman to be looked at by the male figure, it is only right that she goes back and looks at what she has done; redoing and making......
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