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3 pages in length. Virginia Woolf's The New Dress addresses women's struggles against inequality by way of illustrating how a patriarchal society has determined what is physically acceptable and what is not. Mabel is plagued with the knowledge of her own "appalling inadequacy" (The New Dress) when faced to confront her physical shortcomings as she prepares for the party. She imagines everyone casting their judgmental and disapproving eyes upon her, making insincere clucks about how lovely she looks when in reality she knows they are lying. She does not live up to the social expectations placed upon the populace by patriarchal decree; even with a new dress, she must endure the heart wrenching stares and whispered comments that drive home this painful reality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Mabel is plagued with the knowledge of her own "appalling inadequacy" (The New Dress) when faced to confront her physical shortcomings as she prepares for the party. She imagines
everyone casting their judgmental and disapproving eyes upon her, making insincere clucks about how lovely she looks when in reality she knows they are lying. She does not live
up to the social expectations placed upon the populace by patriarchal decree; even with a new dress, she must endure the heart wrenching stares and whispered comments that drive home
this painful reality. "But, my dear, its perfectly charming! Rose Shaw said, looking her up and down with that little satirical pucker of the lips which she expected
-- Rose herself being dressed in the height of the fashion, precisely like everybody else, always" (The New Dress). To say that women had to fight for their existence
throughout the world would be a gross understatement staunchly supported by the likes of Mabel; however, she was hardly in a place to change what had become her reality.
Woolf illustrates how the road to female freedom and self-expression has been paved with patriarchal intolerance and characteristic skepticism to such an extent that women are made to believe their
worth is based solely upon their fashion sense. That women have been forced to prove their worthiness within the stringent boundaries of a male-dominated existence speaks volumes about the
inherent fortitude comprising the female spirit. Woolfs symbolic imagery is as simple as it is complex. The lucid and uncomplicated images of womens struggles against inequity created in The
New Dress with its seemingly elementary style was anything but; in fact, the complexity that resides within Woolfs characteristically simple prose, which demonstrate a purity and precision like no other,
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