Write an essay of no more than 3000 words on the question below:
‘Keeping males and females from telling the truth about what happens to them in families is one way patriarchal culture is maintained. A great majority of
individuals enforce an unspoken rule in the culture as a whole that demands we keep the secrets of patriarchy, thereby protecting the rule of the father. This
rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy”. Most children do not learn what to call this system of
institutionalised gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech’ (bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love. pp. 24–5). Discuss
how modes of authority and/or oppression are maintained by keeping certain things silent or unspoken in the texts you have studied on A335.
Answer with reference toTWOliterary texts. Select your two literary texts from the following:
At least ONE of the four set works from the following list: Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; David Hare’s Stuff Happens; Jhumpa Lahiri’s
Unaccustomed Earth; and any of the digital texts discussed in Book 3, Chapter 7, ‘Literature and the digital age’. Note that you may answer on TWO of the set
texts listed here under ‘1.’
Should you write on only ONE of the four set texts listed in ‘1.’ above, your second selected text can be EITHER:
a.one set text from the rest of A335 that you have not written about in TMAs 01 to 04
OR
b.a literary text from beyond A335 of your own choosing (subject to the approval of your A335 tutor).
