However, women’s lives remained tightly bound by a web of legal and cultural restrictions. Small girls watched their mothers defer to their fathers, and as young women they watched court systems prosecute few men and many women for crimes of fornication and adultery, especially those who bore a living shame of an illegitimate child. They soon learned that their marriages would be inferior in portion to their male siblings and that at their marriage they received not precious land buy livestock or household goods. In the south, because of the drive of economic pursuits that focused less on family structure, women
Juan worked there sometimes. She stumbled upon Juan and Maria Rosa, who was only 15 years old. The sight of her husband cheating on her with Maria Rosa, drew fire through Maria Concepcion’s veins. At this point in the story Maria seemed angry, hurt, and out for revenge. Although she tried to seem as though she was fine to many who knew her.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury here before you is Miss Emily Grierson, she is a woman with a very disturbed background. This woman had to face both social and personal hardships. Miss Grierson was more of an outcast then anyone else in the community. With the death of her father a piece of her died as well. She did not want to let go of him, she wanted him to be with her forever, however death came to him.
Because many people feel that they alive yet dead, not being able to do as they want, always having to answer to someone else, tired of living in poverty and feeling there is no hope for a better life. They get caught in the people trafficking. The USA estimates that there are between 700,000 and four million persons trafficked across international borders, with some 50,000 of them to the US. Mostly women are caught up in these rings because they are used as prostitutes, domestic servants, and sweat shops, etc. They have been promised a new life but received unsafe and unhealthy working conditions and the risk of AIDS and other STDS.
I always see these types of stories of women losing their husbands in car accidents and things like that. Once I actually experienced a similar happening to one of my parent’s friends who lost her husband in a shoot-out in some South American country. The pain in that woman’s voice as she told the story as it was matched the voice of Michelle in that video so much pain and agony that you could feel. Events like that make you think about most of the actions that you make and for the most part they prevent them. There are so many events that if you just say “no, I’m not on a good condition to do this” could save your life and the life of others around you that you might affect.
Mrs. Wang began to lay off staff demoting Adam to the less dignified and remunerated job of gatekeeper while Ahmed was promoted to running the pool. This created a rift between the two, and in a scene shot in the film Mariam, the mother of the family, can be seen trying to keep the peace. While Adam's professional life was falling apart, his personal life was starting to become even worse. The country was in the middle of a civil war and rebel forces were now attacking the government. The authorities demanded that the population contribute to the "war effort" giving money or volunteers old enough to fight off the attackers.
A young woman being forced into poverty and exiled from society, despite her age or class, is the brutal reality for widows in India. The film Water portrays this harsh fate for an eight- year old widow named Chuyia. Chuyia, hardly old enough to know the difference between males and females, is victimized by a corrupt system of marriage in India. Through the eyes of a widow, Deepa Mehta, screenwriter and director of Water, masterfully shows the cruel reality of this system in India. Deepa Mehta uses her gifts of writing and directing to bring to light issues in society, much like the writers before her time.
The author of the story Jiang Ji-li herself tells her story of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The main theme in this novel was unfair judgment. During that time many families were persecuted and treated awfully because of they’re families past. Even if you had not met the family member than had done “wrong” they’re were considered to be just the same in class. People were constantly accused of doing things that they had never even heard of before.
Many of the men who served in the war came back injured, and could not find employment. Some soldiers died while serving their country, thus leaving widows and their children to fend for themselves. Countries involved with the war were left to pay for the damages caused by the war, which caused inflation rates to rise, and poverty to increase. As a result of these difficult times, art was used to revolt against the culture and values which existed, with the intent to subvert and undermine those values. On the website Visual-Arts-Cork.com (Data Art Movement: History, Charicteristics, Artists), it is mentioned that Dada used outrageous tactics to attack the established traditions of art, and it used exhibitions of absurdist art deliberately designed to scandalize and shock both the authorities and the general public.
His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.” This demonstrates the fear his family feels towards him. Later in chapter three his anger gets him in trouble when he disobeys the village and beats his wife during the week of peace. This is demonstrated in the book when it states, “And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace.” After this event his fellow clansmen began to think less of him. Additionally, the novel continues to tell the story of Okonkwo and his family.