My storybook is based on female characters. Have you ever wondered about the efforts that took place behind the scenes to result in the greatest characters in literary works? Most of these efforts are made by female characters. I chose female characters as the main underlying theme of my storybook collection because I believe that women are constantly under-represented in literature. This is not to say that they are not present in the stories, but women are confined to conventional roles that are uni-dimensional and limit their apparent influence on the outcome of the story. These roles include roles as a wife, as a servant, or as a princess. Although there is nothing fundamentally wrong with these roles, literature has used them to underestimate the women’s influence on the story.


Most of my studies have been in Western literature; this class is my first exposure to non-western literature. So far, I am convinced that the dominance of male characters in literature is wide-spread and rampant all over the world.  For example, in the case of Western Literature, a woman’s existence was rarely portrayed independently of her prince. So although the story is about her, the story focuses on how incomplete the girl is without her prince, then how she defies all odds and finds her prince, and how life is made so perfect by her union with the prince. Does this sound familiar; perhaps Cinderella? Or Little Mermaid?