Exploring the Unbalanced Male-Female Dynamic in Classic Literature

Name Institutional affiliations Date Some themes are dominant in different types of literary works. The only difference is how the themes are addressed. This essay aims at looking at different literary works by various authors, and the dominant theme will be deeply discussed. The works under the scrutiny will be ‘Where are you going where have you been,' 'the lottery,' 'trifles,' and 'my last Duchess. Different authors have all done these works at other times and still have different meanings and literal devices. But some themes are evident in them, and this essay wishes to discuss theme dominant in all of them. The theme of male/female relationship. the relationship between men and women are clearly defined whereby the women are seen as the weaker, inferior sex. The male tends to dominate the women and act as the superior being trying to dominate and rule the weaker sex. The theme of the male/female relationship is common in all the works, as mentioned earlier, regardless of the works being of different genres and times. In the Trifles, men are portrayed to occupy the central work in the play, and women are defined to have their places in the homes (Glaspell and Hornstein, 199