She did not care about the house nor her family. Dee attended school in Augusta
Among the major female characters in the novel we can conclude that as a result of being treated like objects, women become passive. Being pampered and used as servants makes them subjective to reality and weak so they are unable to object or oppose the ways they are treated. When facing a life of misery or death, women turn to the men around them rather than putting in effort to assume more independence. Therefore, being perceived as nothing more than something expendable, most men would not make an effort to help women in need unless it would benefit
Joe Whittle Mrs. Dutton AP Lang/Comp 9 January 2013 Nancy Mairs is mentally resilient and passionate. She refuses to oblige in the society’s way of feeling conscience-stricken for those who are unfortunate, as in her case. She repudiates the very deliberation of social protection for her "unable" limbs. Mairs is an individualist who refuses to seek protection for her "crippled" body. The word choice employed by any writer can interpret or conceal any of the author's motives or secrets.
It portrays Jane’s resentment of the fact that her opinion is of no or little importance in true society. Although Jane feels hard done by she still holds to the social view that she must conform to her husbands will and wholly disregard her own views, no matter how much she wishes to be forthright the doubt is there, “But what is one to do?” Jane’s inability to conform to the normal ways of behave for someone of her gender and social standing result in her having to involuntary, for it is the will of her husband, rest cure where she is allowed to do nothing, which leads to a socially unsolicited outcome. “”I’ve got out at last,” said I “in spite of you and Jane.”” Here it advocates that Jane has formed a separate individuality that has been inhibited, by social stereotypes, from coming to light but is now given the chance to be free. This freedom is also presented with the use of imagery of animalistic characteristics, “I kept on creeping just the same”, where Jane has become imprisoned. Jane is trying to conform to society’s ideals and values but wants to be freer.
Furthermore, these groups also had the potential of producing social activists. Unfortunately, although many women attended the C-R groups, they were unwilling to participate actively in the social movement to challenge the patriarchal society (Buechler 72-3). Through this discussion, Buechler raises the interesting point that a raised consciousness does not equate with a desire to transform society. Furthermore, the unwillingness of these women to participate in social activism illuminates the differences that divide women in their perceptions of feminism. For these women, their heightened consciousness that has enabled them to transform various aspects of their personal lives may be sufficient.
“I am! Yet what I am none cares or know, My friends forsake me like a memory lost…” Compare the ways in which isolation or alienation from society are presented in any two of the texts you have studied. We witness cases of alienation in the texts The Scarlet Letter and A Streetcar Named Desire, which are presented mainly in the female protagonists Hester Prynne and Blanche DuBois. However, although both characters experience isolation from their respective societies, it is my contention that the causes for their isolation are different. While Hester’s isolation is largely societal, Blanche experiences two different kinds of isolation.
The first such way is to ignore any legitimate concerns women have; the second way is to classify any emotion as unnecessary and “irrational.” Women get taken advantage of solely because society has considered them emotional, which in today’s modern society is often mistaken for being unstable. This in turn affects a women’s status in life. With this in mind, it is the status that will ultimately define their social mobility, “the lower the status, the more manner of seeing and feeling is subjected to being discredited, and the less believable it becomes” (Hochschile 173). Society has usually seen the lower class as unintelligent and therefore have their opinions denigrated. Even if she has a legitimate case to voice an opinion, “a person of lower status has a weaker claim to the right to define what is going on; less
Kina is an indigenous woman who with low education level and limited idea of what happened (Thomas, 2006). She is incapable of performing an action to defend herself because she is speaking non-standard form English and the group she associated only communicate in standard form of English which leads to she has found it extremely difficult to provide information and wrong interpretation of silencing by the interviewer as unwillingness to cooperate or agree to a harmful proposition (Eades, 1996, p.216). The inability to express herself in a standard form of English as known as power form of the English against the meaning of in front of justice everyone is equal; just because she speaks Aboriginal English, she has been sent to life in prison. At a deeper level, this language discrimination related to culture context which "white society" lack of knowledge and make the wrong interpretation of Aboriginal behaviour. Daisy Li, a mother in America has similar experience as Kina.
This is evident through the limited opportunities available for females outside the sphere of the home. Women’s voices have been silenced, having never been taken into consideration. Our culture has strongly reinforced that women are incapable of possessing any knowledge and that therefore it is the man who has the ability to make the best and most reasonable decision. What Anzaldua is implying here is that no longer should a woman take the efforts to silence her sitting down, she must stand up and exert her right to express her opinions and be heard. We need to step away from the forces that not only make us ashamed of our mestizo skin, but also of our language and sexuality.
Free will does not mean complete freedom as this is a concept that does not exist in reality. Free will within the constraints of the laws of nature, laws of society and physiological constraints. For example I cannot become a ballerina because my body is not designed to stretch and jump to a great extent. No amount of practice will change this as I come from a long line of un-athletic women. Within the secular stance there is hard determinism which is the view that we have no free will at all, it is all but an illusion.