After committing the sin of adultery, Hester Prynne endured her coarse punishment of standing on the scaffold and wearing an embroidered “A” on her chest. The theme of this chapter is that no sin, as heinous as adultery, will go unpunished. Unlike Dimmsdale, who hadn’t been condemned for his sin, Hester beared her punishment of being publicly humiliated given to her by the stringent puritans. Instead, Dimmsdale experienced a punishment of great suffering out of guilt. Hester Prynne, the wife of a learned, English-man, was accused of being with another man while her husband was said to soon be joining Hester in Massachusetts.
Feminism in Fifth Business In the novel “Fifth Business” written by Robertson Davies, the female characters undergo stereotyping due to feminism. From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, women were regarded as nothing ore than a “slave” more or less, to their husbands and rarely viewed as equals. They were required to do whatever their male counterparts demanded of them, without complaint. In this piece of literature, the people of Deptford treat Mrs. Dempster, Leola, and Liesl and Uncumber unjustly based on the fact that they are women. During the time this book was written, men and women were treated vastly different, as portrayed in the novel.
The paper referred to prostitutes as sisters and Men were usually depicted as the wrongdoers. This was a concept unheard of in Ingraham’s society. Ingaham shed light on the fact that once a woman was violated and abandoned by a man, she became shunned by the community, lost all opportunities to be married to a “good man,” had few job prospects available to her, as well as had no legal recourse. The only job women could hold at the time was as sweat shop employees, where they would be paid extremely low wages, on which survival was difficult, especially if the women had to support her children. Ingraham felt this broken system had been pushing women onto the street and into prostitution.
Day after day she was forced to burden the cruel thoughts of others opinions of being inferior because she was a women and a women with her own thoughts at that. Taking place in 1630, societies thought upon women as the subsidiary sex and not respected in the way modern day women is. The job of a puritan women was limited, care for your house, your husband, and your children. If a women stepped out of those bounds her life became hard and wicked. The only women who were relieved of these bonds were widows who had the privilege of being able to sue or be sued, owning their own home or land and disciplining children and servants.
This power structure is kept strong by making failures out of oneself and taking away any independence the women may have including the wives. The handmaids are raped and forced into childbirth and the wives are equally imprisoned because they are married to the masterminds of such a hideous society. I cannot imagine living is a society where my choice to have a child is stolen from me. Society that will punish with death or torture if I decide to rebel against child birth. Birth is a gift given to a woman’s body from GOD.
Fear of being compelled to provide sexual services for the Japanese distressed the nurses intensely. "We felt sick; we couldn’t eat", Betty Jeffery wrote [29]. As they waited, Veronica Clancy said, to hear the "steps of the loathsome creatures" on the gravel path, "Nights were just hell" [30]. Pressure was increased on the nurses when the Japanese cut off all food rations to the camp until the nurses complied. The nurses felt the same anger as the other women prisoners at their own lack of power and the same repugnance to be sex servants, and as women in the military they had additional worries.
Family were part of each slave has to suffer from their slave master. They suffered when slave master abuse them, they suffered when give birth for baby, they suffered when their children sale to another place at three or four years old, and they suffered when their children died. The exploitation of slave lave for the slave master too cruel. The slave masters lose their mind when doing things too immorality for that human race. Clora generation's family has suffered for many cruel thing slave masters did for Clora mother's family, the family of Clora, and children families of Clora.
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.
No matter how much the women are contained, Gileadean society cannot perpetuate without child bearing women, and if they are infertile they are declared ‘unwomen’ and sent away to the colonies .In this society, Handmaids are treated like slaves and sexual objects to men. The Handmaids are only valued while they are able to reproduce and are frequently referred to or treated like vessels or containers rather than as people. Handmaids are transitioned between three Commanders as three ‘chances’ to conceive., before they are sent to the colonies (Atwood 15) . They are also blamed if they are unable to conceive due to their Commander’s infertility. Also the Handmaids are known only by the names of their Commanders, hence Of-Warren and Of-Glen.
We can know when Narji see her father as an employer to her maid has a relationship with her father. Then in Her, a woman is a victim from her husband, because her husband marry with another woman. The condition is that felt by both of the characters as a woman. And the third similarity is feminism of the characters, because the major character from The Picture by Nawal Al Sadawi and Her by Titis Basino is a woman. It can represent of feminism.