Lillian Hellmans Feminist Concern in the Childrens Hour...

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the days occupations That is known as the Childrens Hour. em_/emem_ Henry Wadsworth. Longfellow, The Childrens Hour And every word will have a new meaning. You think well be able to run away from that? Woman, child, love, lawyer -- no words that we can use in safety anymore. Sick, high-tragic people. Thats what well be. _/emem_/em Lillian Hellman, The Childrens Hour While Henry Wadsworth Longfellows The Childrens Hour as quoted above eulogizes the happy hour for the children to play between dark and daylight, Lillian Hellmans play by the same name deals with a dark hour when†¦show more content†¦This paper intends to study her feminist concern with womens independence at central stake in the play, though she herself declines to be even a female writer by saying I am a playwright....You wouldnt refer to Eugene ONeill as one of Americas foremost male playwrights. (Wright, 85) Sally Burke insists Hellman deserves a place among the feminist playwrights of the era between the first and second waves of the womens movement for more than just one reason. To start with, her work meets with the meets the criteria of what playwright Megan Terry has said anything that gives women confidence, shows them to themselves, helps them to begin to analyze, whether its a positive or a negative image, is nourishing, and Vivian Patraka has called herself The Dramatist of the Second Sex to add to the fact. Moreover, her work has dramatized the inequalities of a patriarchal, capitalist system; repeatedly exposed instances of injustices and oppression; and was committed