The repression of women and the suspicions of a patriarchal society lead to rebellion and hysteria. Suppression prevents female character developing. Miller portrays women as weak, it seems that he uses his own view of women and presents it in the crucible. Hale shows authority over Abigail: ‘You can not evade me Abigail’ here he expresses his control and power, Hale puts pressure onto Abigail to tell the truth; is she lies he knows that she will be believe over him because of his male dominance. The use of ‘evade’ tells Abigail that he cannot be overcome and therefore she cannot overcome god like she has taken control of the Girls.
Women, according to Creon, are inferior to men. “We cannot give victory to a woman” Creon states, “If we must accept defeat, let it be from a man; we must not let people say that a woman beat us” (678-680). Losing or being corrected by a woman shows defeat at its worst in Creon’s opinion. As we see in previous lines, Creon’s son, Haemon, resolves himself from his father’s words. However Haemon’s opinion shifts.
Portrayal of Women in Hamlet and Oedipus Tyrannus Introduction Traditionally, the society has been heavily tilted against women. Throughout history, the female gender has suffered bias and oppression from their male counterparts. Society generally considers women as the weaker sex and incapable of holding their own (Das 1). Shakespeare and Sophocles have captured the plight of women in their texts Hamlet and Oedipus Tyrannus respectively. The two texts present a woman from a disadvantaged point of view and how she struggles to establish a foothold in a male-dominated society.
Loyalty: The Ultimate Flaw In the Greek play Antigone, readers debate whether Antigone expresses hubris or heroic loyalty. Sophocles appoints Antigone- a female figure to carry out stereotypical male roles, expected to be incapable of women in Thebes. In no special sequence, Antigone’s loyalty in the act to bury her brother Polyneices, acknowledgment to the gods, civil disobedience in acting against the king’s laws, and her everlasting issue with feminism in her Patriarchal Society, encourages her to battle every circumstance that comes her way. As Antigone conquers each of these rival forces, she demonstrates loyal behavior to the gods while she becomes her deceased brother’s personal hero. In Antigone’s defense, loyalty cannot be granted overnight, but overtime or even in a full life’s span.
Logos: “Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government” This particular appeal effectively allures to the logical thinking of the reader. It tells the reader that people only disagree and rebel against the government when it is about something that is very important. It also shows that because of the government being destructive it effects the safety and happiness of the women. Pathos: “In the convenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming to all intents and purposes, her master…” This appeal feeds into the emotions of the reader. Showing how women are nothing but servants to their master.
However the traditional role of femininity that was enforced upon women by a stringent and somewhat vigorous society was changing and these two texts challenge the traditional role of femininity both directly and indirectly throughout. The lack of communication and action of characters in As I Lay Dying is often conspicuous. As one would expect, this often leads to an obscuring of identity for both the female protagonists alongside males. Addie is scathing of words in particular. For her, they are just a “shape to fill a lack”.
The way in which Creon and Antigone oppose each other adds fuel to the fire in the conflicts between the sexes. Antigone’s beliefs are the complete opposite of Creon’s in the sense that she believed in respect to the god’s and family over anything else. This upset Creon because Antigone did not respect his views and strongly opposed them. Creon was even more upset because Antigone is a female that is opposing him; if Antigone was a male, Creon would most likely let the opposing views go under the radar, but that is not the case. Creon denying the approval of
Therefore leading to criticisms from feminists. Ann Oakley argues that the New Right wrongly assumes that husbands and wives’ roles are fixed by biology. She also believes that the New Right view of the family is a negative reaction against the feminist campaign for women’s equality. Even more so, other feminists argue that the traditional nuclear family favoured by the New Right is based on the patriarchal oppression of women and is a fundamental cause of gender inequality. In this view, it prevents women working and keeps them financially dependent on me.
Lang Arts 3-4 Antigone essay February 1, 2012 “Facing the consequences” “Independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right” said Brigham Young. Antigone has to follow her heart and face what society says to do or follow her heart and face the consequences, Antigone by Sophocles. A uncle goes out of his way to defend people burying his nephew Polyneices and punish anyone in his way. Is doing whats right and facing consequences better then society choosing whats right. (71) Antigone knows its illegal to bury her brother but for the sake of whats right she must.
Mary I had had a hard life before even taking the throne and as a child had seen her parents marriage declared invalid and herself branded a bastard. She had been separated from her mother and kept away from the Royal Court by the jealous actions of the Queen Anne Boleyn. Mary had also seen her mother’s religion and the religion of the whole country changed by her father and his advisers. All these circumstances shaped Mary’s character into one that was distrusting, cautious and vengeful. Mary I undoubtedly grew colder and stricter as she grew older and she clearly dealt harshly with rebellions that questioned her rule and her desire to change England to once again being aligned with the Roman Catholic Church.