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 only having the job as a “happy homemaker” woman in the 1950’s felt dissatisfaction and needed fulfillment in their life other than staying home, and taking care of their families. Consequently, in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller women were portrayed almost the same way. They both were treated poorly and held a position of that inferior to men. Because, women in the Crucible held no real power or independence they were forced to follow the negative stereotypes of the 1950’s. Women in the 1950’s were expected to stay home, and were more or less left out of everything that were to be of importance.
Carolyn Heilbrun’s essay, “The Character of Hamlet’s Mother”, defends Gertrude against the claims of many critics that she is an adulteress, shallow and dull woman. In many ways, Heilbrun’s essay points out several truthful aspects of Gertrude’s character, that prove she’s in no way an adulteress and not at all a dull woman. There is no evidence in the play that alludes to Gertrude’s complicity in the murder of Hamlet’s father, yet there are plenty of moments between Gertrude and Hamlet that prove she’s not in the least, a shallow person. Despite there being people that believe that Gertrude was an adulteress and that she played a role in the murder of King Hamlet, there is no evidence within the play to substantiate such vile statements. When the Ghost first speaks to Hamlet, he speaks with disgust towards the Queen, saying, “Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,/ With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--O wicked wit, and gifts that have the power/ So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust” (1.5.42-45) This is perhaps the only instance where her unfaithfulness to Hamlet the King is mentioned.
In ‘Of mice and Men’ Curley’s wife is deliberately not given a name, Steinbeck does this to try and say that she is worthless, irrelevant and purely the property of her husband. Curley’s wife is used as an archetypal for the ideas of America in the 1930s. Other names she is called by the men on the ranch are ‘tramp’, ‘jailbait’ and ‘bitch’; Steinbeck has purposefully used these derogatory terms to show how men saw women at the time. Candy’s in particular is very prejudiced towards her as he says to George and Lennie, ‘I think Curley’s married... a tart.’ This is prejudiced because Candy is known as a gossip and he may just be trying to initiate conversation with George and Lennie and trying to make them see her in his view rather than letting them initially get their own opinion of her based on their experiences rather than his. Curley’s wife clearly feels neglected by her husband and she likes to create attention for herself as she feels she isn’t noticed.
Even Curley doesn’t not refer to her by her name, he always says, “Where’s my wife?” which can we disrespectful. They talk badly of her by calling her a tart and everyone often shuts her out. Curley’s wife may be very flirtatious and her actions can cause a lot of problems, Curley is really the
Throughout the story you can tell that Hester never truly loved Roger Chillingworth. Hester refuses to tell anyone who she committed adultery with but since she had a child, Pearl, while her husband was not in America, everyone knows and she is judged harshly (Hawthorne 74). Her punishment for this sin is that for the rest of her life she will have to wear a scarlet letter ‘A’ on her chest that stands for adultery (Hawthorne 60). John Proctor committed adultery a young girl named Abigail Williams. Abigail was John and his wife’s, Elizabeth’s servant.
(chapter 2, pg 145) Note: my page numbers probably don't match your but the chapter will Point: Steinbeck’s use of the character of Curley’s Wife is the only female character in the novella. Steinbeck uses different ways to show the importance of Curley’s wife. Evidence: No characters in the novella care for Curley’s Wife and very little attention is given to her. However many of the men only see her as an object. I think Steinbeck conveys that idea by his description of her.
She married Roger out of social and economic necessity. When she commits adultrey, she conceals his identity from Dimmesdale. Roger chillingworth visits hester while she is in prison and they both discuss to eachother that their marriage never worked out. Hester says, " I have greatly wronged thee!",(72). Hester is the least sinful because she only committed adultrey and that she never told Arthur chillingworth was her husband.
For instance, Abigail lies when questioned about having an affair with farmer John Proctor, her former employer. While Proctor confesses his lechery, Abigail proclaims that the affair did not take place. When directly questioned, Abigail refuses to answer. Another instance of dishonesty is Abigail’s accusations during her crying out. Cornered into admitting to participating in dark magic, she still cannot take responsibility for her actions and instead accuses others of cooperating with the devil.
For example, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, during the writing of the Declaration to encourage him to include the rights of women, arguing that men have turned into tyrants in the past (Doc D). Although Abigail proved herself to be very intelligent John did not listen to his wife’s requests and women received no voice or representation in government under the Declaration or Constitution. Women along with other minority groups were not impacted at all by the Declaration of Independence because they were not included; only the fifteen percent of the population, or the white men with property experienced any sort of radical changes. Historians feel the