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.
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. Miller has used a comma before Hale says Abigail to prolong the pressure that Abigail is under as well as to lengthen the dramatic tension. The women of Salem are only seen as house wives, doing the normal roles of a mother and wife. Miller exerts an extreme amount of pressure on them to be a certain way; it is like Miller is expressing his view on women in ‘The Crucible’. The society preaches freedom however value uniformity more.
Examine the portrayal of women and their roles in the poems you have studied in the ‘scars upon my heart’ anthology. In the poem ‘The jingo woman’ written by Helen Hamilton, she talks about her dislike of a woman who feels it is her duty to punish the men who do not go to war, asks her how she can do this with no experience of war. At the beginning of the 1st stanza she describes why she hates the Jingo woman so much, then carries on to question the jingo woman as to who gave her the right to judge these men. She says “the judgement of your eye, the wild, infuriate eye” this suggests that the Jingo woman is a bit crazy, making her view on the men seems wrong as her judgement cannot be trusted. Hamilton goes on to explain why her dislike of the jingo woman is so strong; “you make all women seem church duffers!” she implies the Jingo woman is seen as unintelligent, criticising why her opinions are wrong and that this view of her is being applied to all women.
Maybe that’s why everybody thinks she’s anti-social because nobody wants to hear what she has to say about anything. She doesn’t have the same interests as everybody else her age. I think that Clarisse should tell everyone she knows about the information she holds before they kill her because that way people can actually stand up for what they believe in and not listen to or deal with how the government thinks. The government is just trying to control everyone into thinking the same thing. The way the government is thinking is not how a world should be.
But Ismene refuses to help her sister, fearing the death penalty installed by Creon. Therefor Antigone decided that she must go and bury her brother herself. As the play continues, a sentry tells Creon that Polynecies body has been buried. Furious, Creon demands that the culprit be found, the sentry then returns with Antigone. Creon questions her, and Antigone does not deny that she buried Polynecies.
She wants to be able to defy the normal. At the very end she states she is starting her own “silent war”. The author insinuates that now the character in the story is starting her own war. She is no longer following what everyone does or says. She wants to become her own person and begins to defy society.
Cavander goes on to say “almost the only thing she could call her own was her reputation.”2 Women in ancient Greece were expected to behave properly, be unassertive and not interrupt any business conducted between men. They were simply expected to clean, cook, spin and weave clothing, and most importantly carry and care for their children. Moreover, they were not allowed to express any type of opinion in public. This was their official social status in Greece, and many women felt oppressed and undermined. The legal case of Euphiletos is a story of love, betrayal, and murder.
Additionally, basing the discrimination on the fact that women have periods and might see a man naked or be seen naked trivializes the desire these women have to be the best and to be recognized for it. These women have been in less than ideal conditions, as have their male counterparts and the minor adjustments that are made don’t seem to cause mission failures or lasting psychological damage. Additionally, speaking to the idea of how our nation feels about women killing or being killed in combat, I have to point out that women’s lives are no more or less valuable than men’s are. As the mother of sons, I don’t feel one bit different about my son dying in combat than anyone else would feel about their daughter doing the same. I believe very strongly in a woman’s right to choose what is right for her and her family.
After all almost everyone at the time believed that "the female brain was different then the male brain. "(Reifert 78) Blackwell finally gained admittance to Geneva College after a unanimous vote of the student body to let her in. This vote should not be taken as a sign that men were becoming more accepting of women infiltrating what was formally known as male only territory. It should be noted that most of the students believed that either the vote was a joke or that Blackwell would not stay around long. Blackwell proved all the skeptics wrong by graduating in the top of her class, but still no hospital in the United States would allow her to intern.
(1) Beenfeldt says in his chapter that a woman should have the right to do whatever she wants to her body. He states “The pro-life movement is not a defender of human life, it is in fact, a profound enemy of actual human life and happiness” (39) Cook, Erdman, and Dickens fear that women are unjustly denied this safe medical procedure which is their given right. (157) Average Age of Women Getting