Robin Flores Professor Anderson English 103 25 October 2012 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One is to say, woman are portrayed inferior to men because they were never given a position of power, men see themselves superior than women, and are consider as sexual objects. The movie, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” shows the audience that women should stay in a patriarchy system. The female character Miss Ratchet, abused her power as a leader by being over dramatic on her job. The main character, McMurphy never agreed with Miss Ratchet on anything because he feels superior. Two other females that had nicknames are known as a sexual need in the film because McMurphy invited them over to seduce the guard and Billy.
With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful. Edith dreamed of being a celebrity, she wished to be a perfect girl, and to live in a perfect world "in which only married women had babies, and in which men and women stayed married forever." The shacks in which Eddie grew up were less than desirable, and supposedly thought of as contemptible, by people of a higher social class. When Edith moved to the boarding house, with set meal times, she was quite ashamed to think of how people living in the shacks didn't have meal times, they simply found any food they could and ate by themselves when they were hungry. The potato-chip plant that Eddie worked at
In Athens they way that women were educated was through learning tasks such as weaving, domestic arts, spinning, and other chore like household tasks. There was a very stern law code concerning marriage for Athenian women as well. For instance, an Ancient Athenian woman would not be permitted to enter public sanctuaries wearing any form of jewelry. If a woman did this, the men were able to hit her and make her life basically miserable. Women were also not allowed to make any form of deals or contracts for anything more than a bushel of barley.
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen and Punishment by Rabindranath Tagore are both stories that have women that are conflicted and bounded in a man’s world. In Hedda the play focused on a Victorian high class living society on a woman named Hedda Gabler who only cared about herself and had no qualms with manipulating her friends and family. On the other hand, Punishment focused on an agrarian and poor society about two brothers, one who killed his wife and blamed it on Chandara, Chidam’s wife and she cared about her family especially her husband. Hedda and Chandra are two people who have different personalities and were brought up in two different worlds. Despite these differences, both stories surrounding these two women are realistic and of real women who are conflicted in their role as women in a man’s world and this ultimately led them to take control of their life even if it meant killing themselves.
Lady Bracknell is arrogant, conservative, ruthless, and proper; she represents the Victorian upper-class and therefore is the key to the satire comedy seen within the play. Throughout the importance of being earnest she causes conflict due to her upholding these upper class ideologies such as girls not being allowed to choose their own husband she says to Gwendolen “You are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact.” she states here that the girls are not capable or experienced enough to choose their own husbands meaning Gwendolen was unable to become engaged to jack as he did not meet lady Bracknell’s high social status standard due to the fact he was an orphan. For the play to have a happy ending
Women didn't get the vote until 1920, but it didn't improve tolerance for their rights much. They were still seen as less than equal, discouraged in pursuing higher education and told their only purpose was to be a wife and mother. Women like Margaret Sanger and Emma Goldman who advocated birth control were actually jailed! Workers in general were treated badly, such as by mining companies, who even refused bathroom breaks to workers, forcing them to urinate in their clothes! If they tried to form unions, like the IWW, they were arrested without cause, usually beaten and jailed.
Society had thrown out Oakhurst, Duchess and Mother Shipton for them being themselves; by living their successes they were condemned. The lovers left society because they knew their union wouldn’t be accepted. This is an example in literature about how the society in real life didn’t accept people who were living out their lives on their terms and not according to any unspoken rules that were expected to follow. Though all of the outcasts were looked down upon and their lives were cut short by the storm that forced premature death they had been living the new American success by being themselves and not letting society dictate their every decision. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain show both how society still tries to shape individuals and how Huck lives his own success.
Education, employment, and politics are all barriers where women were held back from the full development of their faculties. In the 19th century women were denied political equality, robbed of their natural rights, and handicapped by laws and customs at every turn. Trained to dependence with no assets of their own women were left to bear the attitude of being less intelligent and able to make political decisions than men. While they have freely accepted a deferential position to men they have also refused to look toward a future of tradition and domesticity. The campaign for women’s suffrage had a sincere beginning
Sarah Grimke showed this idea in her “Letters on the Equality of the Sexes” saying, “ …where any mental superiority exists, a women is generally shunned and regarded as stepping out of her ‘appropriate sphere,’ which in their view is to dress and dance.” Women were confined to being what men wanted them to be. There was no liberty or sense of independence for women and when they attempted to gain some ground on that idea they were “shunned” upon. Women were subjugated and barely above the level of slaves or indentured servants according to republican ideals. Women had no property and could gain no liberty and the only virtue allowed to them was, between their legs. The women adapted the republican ideas and with that the language to set the platform for their eventual
There are running themes throughout the movie which expose Salem’s fundamental weaknesses, the first being intolerance. This meant that there was no room for deviating from social norms; subsequently these suppressed girls felt they needed to release their frustration through dancing wildly in the woods. The first scene was quite shocking, it could be perceived as an outburst. However, the Puritans could not simply brush this aside as an outburst or as child’s play because that would reflect badly upon their parenting methods and their society as a whole. At one point, Governor Danforth proclaims, "But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.