In five pages these literary works are contrasted and compared in terms of how each portrays woman's cultural and social roles. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Women are presented in a variety of ways in fictional literature. Indeed our societal concepts of femininity and masculinity are easily discernible in the literature of various
time periods. Fictional portrayals of women vary from the seductive to the chaste, from the calculating to the innocent, from the imbecile to the genius. Fictional writers have
liberty to be either sympathetic to womens roles or cynical as to those roles. Their portrayals can be either detailed, shallow, or stereotypical.
Typically there are phenomenal differences in the way women are presented in fiction by male writers and the way they are presented by female writers.
There are also typically differences according to the era in which the writer worked. There are also differences, however, just in general which exists between writers. An
example of the discrepancy which exists in the portrayal of women in fiction can even be found in some classic works of science fiction literature such as Bram Stokers now
infamous "Dracula" and Ray Bradburys "Fahrenheit 451". Just as Count Dracula himself could be contended to be a reflection of the culture
in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented in "Dracula" a reflection of that culture. Even more broadly, however, these women
are a reflection of Eastern Europe, of the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Czechs, Poles, Kasubs, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Servs, Croats, and Slovenes. Even more aptly, however, these women reflect the
culture and society in which Bram Stoker lived and worked. In many ways, such depictions which may have been presented in times long past are still a threat to