A room of one's own

A room of one’s own by Virginia Wolf is an interesting essay in the sense that different social issues are developed in this piece of art. One of those important issues is the diferences of gender.

As it is known, since ancient times until now, society has made differences between women and men, where women are underestimated. In “A room of one’s own” which takes place in 1929, Virginia Woolf used to write her books by using another name. She invented the name Judith Shakespeare so that people think that it was Shakespeare’s sister who wrote, and in this way, she could see if society would value her works just because of the name. However, in such a chauvinist society from that time, her works did not have the same impact as Shakespeare’s.

It is hard to me to understand how an entire society can be so narrow-minded that a book written by a woman was not important as the ones written by a man, even though they had the same level of reflection. Fortunately, it has been changing over time, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Oliver Twist

The film Oliver Twist is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen in my life. In fact, I would dare to say that it is almost imposible that someone could hav such a miserable life.

In this movie, romanticism is demonstrated by features such as the setting where the story takes place and the emotions it transmits us. What is strongly shown, it is the assumptions that existed in that time when population began to expand throught the construction of cities. People used to be judged by others just for the appearance or for the place they lived in. That is why Oliver was arrested. He did never robbed however he was blamed for that because of the way he was dressed.

It is a film which clearly demonstrates how society imposes ideals and how those impositions become a part of us that is hard to control. It is a pity that something as prejudices will always be in the inner of men, because to judge others does not let this world progress.