Fat Black Woman And Oygmalion Feminist Views

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70 years apart, which of the writers do you find to be more optimistic about the ability of women to stand up to men and the associated pressures of a patriarchal society? In 1914, Bernard Shaw began his play Pygmalion and completed it in June1914;this was after the first wave of feminism where some woman was able to vote it was also during the first year of the world war. Women were working at this time as most of the men were at war, this could mean that majority of the audience may have been women.Women were utilized during the war, and may have seen it as finally being equal with men, as they were able to work. Pygmalion may come across equally liberating to women at the time as Eliza character replicated a strong, independent young woman self-sufficient through business of selling flowers on the street and with a highly developed moral sense and Self-respect. Grace Nichols moved to England in 1977 and wrote ‘ the fat black woman’ in 1984 after the third wave of feminism ironically there was also the first woman prime minister in position, the character in which she creates has similar traits to Eliza and In the title Nichols addresses three stereotypes head on: fatness, blackness, and womanhood. Till today society is still quite patriarchal,patriarchy is a social system where the role of the male is as the primary authoritative figure, men are central to social organization. A patriarchal society is one of male rule and of privilege, a society dependent on female subordination. Eliza was living in more of a man driven society, Discrimination against gender would have been more the norm, this is Dissimilar to Grace Nichols where the character would have been living in an ‘equal’ society and all the discrimination and racism would have been unseen.Bernard Shawwas described as a ‘free thinker’ and may have had an interest in exploding the typical structures
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