The Discrimination against Women Identities Throughout history, female were considered lesser beings and nothing more than the property of their husband. In the short story, Blank Spaces by Joanna Cockerline, the acknowledgment of female being inferior creatures in comparison to men is highlighted. Struggle against misfortunes, Elizabeth is oppressed by the social inequality due to the fact that she is a girl. In Blank Spaces, the social inequality implied by the narrative severely impacts Elizabeth’s career hierarchy, character traits, and life experiences. Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities.
This illustrates the significance of the social class and the inequality faced by those of the lower class. In Act Two, Priestley presents ideas about social class, through the interaction between the characters. When Mrs Birling is informed of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton not accepting the money from the father of the child, she doesn’t believe the Inspector and responds, ‘As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money!’ This indicates that upper/middle-class people believed that working class people only used others for money. Thus, it demonstrates that social class is important because Priestley has his characters stereotyping each other, which disproves the counterfeit image of the different social class that people have. In the last act, Priestley exhibits ideas about social class, through placing his own opinion into the character and the mindset of Inspector Goole.
Novels often present women as constrained by society Explore the presentation of women in the light of this statement Women are presented as being restricted by society in the 18th and 19th century mostly by men ruling the world and women being oppressed, this means that women were meant to manage the household. This is shown in Wuthering heights by Catherine being restrained by Edgar in the Linton’s household. Catherine is the main example of a woman who has different expectations of marriage and social life when having a husband. A woman in that time was meant to be obedient, disciplined and faithful to their husband, Catherine is the complete opposite of this and is not obedient, not disciplined and certainly not faithful ‘It is impossible for you to be my friend, and his at the same time’ This shows that Catherine is having trouble deciding who to care for and between her husband Edgar and Heathcliff. Catherine Forces herself into a fever and hysteria when having to make a choice between the two, this shows her being constrained by her mind because she is mentally unstable.
Dubois's philosophy not only shows nihilism in the black race during this era but it also shows the same lack of progression in the black community in 2011. It reminds us of the lack of harmonious solidarity as well as the lack of intellect, high morals and spiritual insight affecting the Black masses today. His piece brings up an array of valid points on why the black community is its own worst enemy when it comes to building a new infrastructure of educational, historical and financial knowledge of self like the Jewish, Asian and Indian cultures. Dubois says “It is the problem of developing the best of this race that they may guide the mass away from the contamination and death of the worst, in their own and other races. Now the training of men is a difficult and intricate task.”(Dubois 1) I personally think that the contamination of most blacks today is from out dated teachings, some churches, politicians and most importantly, the entertainment business.
We the Living” We the Living shows that under Communism almost everyone in Russia becomes miserable, including poor people. Some would argue that Communism fails because human nature is not good enough to practice it. Based on the novel’s events and characters, do you think Ayn Rand would agree or disagree? Explain your answer. “Communism is in the conflict with human nature”.
The poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ William Blake displays the dejected urban life of a young chimney sweeper during the coming of the industrial revolution, in order to emphasize the theme of innocence through Marxism and to inform people of the harsh working conditions during the times of child labour promoting political reform. Blake is seen as a Marxist before Marxism as he criticises the government extensively due to their lack of obligated care over those who they serve. A Marxist view can be applied as it is shown that those who are being oppressed are unaware of the appalling nature of their circumstances. A key concept of Marxism is that the working classes are exploited by the ruling classes, but are often aware of this oppression, but are unwilling to do anything. In the poem the exploitation of the working classes in shown by the dire circumstances which they are left in, as in this particular example "my father sold me while my tongue / could scarcely cry 'weep weep weep weep!'".
All three stories barely compared, they all just touched on different aspects on how woman were supposed to be for their husbands, and how it would be if they did do as said. Like, in d’Arthur when Guinevere was to be killed. One can also see while reading each piece that each author all have an interpreted feeling that they feel against women in their writings. Like in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d’Arthur, one can get the idea that the authors have a “don’t trust women” set of mind. One can get that idea, being that in both pieces the woman are having an affair with another man, although Sir Gawain and the Green knight was just a joke, it was mostly trying to “teach a lesson” or make a point to men, why one should not trust a women, because of the trickery and games they hold up their sleeves.
Many men had an attitude of superiority and most women judged the women working in sciences negatively. However, there was some acceptance from men and women of females working in the scientific community. Women frequently were excluded by men from scientific study in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because the attitude of the time was that women had only certain traits they could possess skill in, such as housework and beauty, and they lacked the intelligence to learn science. In document 3 Samuel Pepys, an Englishman, wrote in his personal diary that the Duchess of Newcastle, an author who wrote a book entitled "A World Made by Atomes", wished to be invited to the meeting of the Royal Society of Scientists. He ends his entry by saying that “The Duchess hath been a good, comely woman, but…” and proceeds to describe his negative opinion of her appearance.
Organizational subheadings divide the article into three parts: Introduction, Men and Women in the Private Sphere, and Women and the Cane. Pollock introduces her ideas by declaring that the standard of early modern art be deemed unfair in the representation of female artist on the basis that the standards were created by men and because of that advantage glorification for female artist was unobtainable (Pollock 245). Another noted inequality faced by females of the time was the areas inhabited by women that separated them by social class (Pollock 245). As evidence, Pollock compares the works of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt to that of their male colleagues. Paintings by Morisot and Cassatt portrayed females in settings, or femininity spaces that were considered domesticated (Pollock 248).
Is class identity gendered? During the late 20th century there has been a heated debate about relationship between class and gender, one of the major criticisms of class analysis were that women have been marginalized. Joan Acker claims that the marginalization of women in class analysis is due to ‘’intellectual sexism’’ (Acker, 1973 cited in Morgan, 166). As a result of mainly focusing on the invisibility of women in traditional class analysis the position of men within class analysis was unspoken of, however ‘’a moment’s thought would seem to suggest that men and masculinity were heavily implicated in class analysis’’ (Morgan 166) there is an assumption that class is male which is why women were neglected previously in class analysis. Morgan argues that men are ‘’holders of class power’’ (Morgan 168) this is because men can be found at the top of the social hierarchy whether it is in political, economic, educational or cultural organizations; due to this men are largely involved in class practices as ‘’individual or collective class actors’’ (Morgan 168) along with this, men may also be seen dominating the discourses of class.