Hi, I am currently doing 'Top Girls' and feminism within a University Essay.
I would note in intro to essay, that feminism is so large within the play, you cannot possibly look at everything and that you have narrowed it down to 3/4 main ideas.
1)ISOLATION
2)POWER/SUCCESS
3)GENDER EXPECTATIONS
ISOLATIONS- could be spoken about in terms of how women are isolated from job roles (marlene/pope joan) also how women are isolated from real society (lady nijo and grieselda-who are housewifes and only allowed to do as husbands say.
POWER/SUCCESS - you could speak about how typically men have the power eg grieseldas hubby(gives away her children etc) and also her father (tells her she has to marry him) and also lady nijo (told to be a prostitue and so on.) Also could include the speach from act 2, where man's wife comes in and says to marlene you should not be promoted shud be my husband, its a mans job etc. BUT THEN u could say how churchill has disturbed these tradition views in an attempt to expresses feminist ideas that women should have equal jobs etc...does this by marlene getting promotion and also by Pope Joan being a successful pope.
GENDER EXPECTATIONS - talk about how men=masculine, women=feminine, and how churchill conforms to this typical mainstream theme in characters like grieselda and marlenes sister who be the housewife, career, obident so as told, seen and not heard femine gender. but then gives females masucline attributes
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