Athenian men thought women were both morally and physically weak to an extent. Laws related to Athenian women suggest women were morally and physically weak. In Athenian Courts, women are debarred from participating in any political or legal processes and if they were involved in any situation of that sort, their identity would go unnamed, if they of respectful/honourable kind. Women were also seen as an asset to the oikos and always need to be under a guardianship of the kurios, which is usually either their fathers and later, after marriage, their husbands. And if a woman succumbs to acts adultery, this is seen as a great threat for the Oikos as the women can no longer be seen as honourable or chase, casting doubt on children’s legitimacy.
Lady Bracknell is arrogant, conservative, ruthless, and proper; she represents the Victorian upper-class and therefore is the key to the satire comedy seen within the play. Throughout the importance of being earnest she causes conflict due to her upholding these upper class ideologies such as girls not being allowed to choose their own husband she says to Gwendolen “You are not engaged to anyone. When you do become engaged to someone I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact.” she states here that the girls are not capable or experienced enough to choose their own husbands meaning Gwendolen was unable to become engaged to jack as he did not meet lady Bracknell’s high social status standard due to the fact he was an orphan. For the play to have a happy ending
Throughout early history, girls received very few educational opportunities, in society learning was secondary. The idea of a female attending school, especially higher education was backlashes with hostile attitudes (Women in America). Men are viewed themselves as not only superior, but also smarter. From the 17th-19th centuries, women's brains were thought to be smaller than those of men, which is why people thought that women could not learn courses such as science of math. Emma Willard opened a seminary for girls, in Troy, New York, in 1821.
A Doll’s House and the style/type of play Due to the definitions of styles of drama and plays being very loosely defined, it is likely that A Doll’s House can be interpreted as many different types of play. Ibsen’s work has been constantly debated on whether a style in consistent in his works, especially in A Doll’s House- one of his more widely known and famous plays. It could be argued that Ibsen’s A Doll’s House shows aspects of Melodrama, the constancy of Nora ‘humming happily to herself’ in menial actions, emphasises her positive mood, but in a way that can be overly sensed and heard by the audience, giving into the fairytale convention of humming whilst doing domestic work. Helmer is also shown to be ‘dragging’ Nora by the ‘ear’, a movement which is over-played when he could have just beckoned to her to follow her, pursuing a more normal action but instead helps to emphasise the paternal hold Helmer has over Nora as it is often a joke or even punishment a father or mother will inflict on their child. Melodramas constantly dramatise simple actions in order to highlight their importance or comedy to the audience, therefore these over-dramatic actions such as singing and being dragged by the ear, which often feed, into storybook stereotypes in such simple situations, help to shape the argument that A Doll’s House could be interpreted as a melodrama.
Victoria motherhood is about making sacrifices and a strict adherence to morality. How far do you agree with the view that both Nora in Ibsen’s a dolls house and Mrs Arbuthnot in Wildes a woman of no importance are victims of a society biased in favour of men. In both “A Woman Of no Importance” and “A Doll’s House” Ibsen and Wilde present the victimisation of women in Victorian society, who were biased to men, in different ways. The Victorian ideologies that women were expected to follow where very restrictive in comparison to the twenty-first century views. The ideologies focus on domestic roles that a woman should partake in.
If children remain uneducated or unfocused, it’s the country which paysthe price of that ignorance and lack of education among the coming generation. The reason that Marjane Satrapi was rebellious was because she thought that the cultural revolution was ruining the education system of her country. There are many incidents in the book which direct us towards this conclusion that Marjane blamed the cultural revolution for the downfall of the education system of her country. The first incident that comes to my mind is from the first chapter “The Veil” (3). The author says, “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3).
For example, turning down Mr. Collins may demonstrateher as a no-brainer woman among the society at that time. But by rejecting him, this suggests that Elizabeth places her own judgment over social pressures to comfort. In spite of the fact that she has been forced to get married with Mr. Collins by her mother, she persists to her strong position of rejecting his proposal. Plus, although Lady Catherine tries to strong-arm her into rejecting any proposal from Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth gets angry and asks her to get away. Hence, it can be noticed how Austen stresses on the empowerment of women through Elizabeth’s
“Why did women win the vote?” Woman’s roles and statues were affected by Victorians view of women. They thought that women weren’t capable to do much and were constricted to very little. They had very little choice of what they wanted to do like choosing who they wanted to marry, what they wanted to do with the things (like money) they inherited and they couldn’t do much either like getting a full education, get equal pay, own property and couldn’t sue her husband as he owned her. Women’s roles were affected by Victorian views of women as their role was to look after the children, the family, and the home. Women were viewed as men’s property so they had to do whatever the husband wanted them to do.
The education system in Jane Eyre helps establish the idea of feminist criticism in the Victorian Era. In the 19thcentury, there was little to no opportunity for women to have jobs. Women were even equipped to feel distressed when it came to involving themselves in certain parts of society. Men had all the high paying jobs, leaving women to work as housewives or a governess. Even though in today's society having a job of educating young children is renowned and eminent, being a governess in the 19thcentury was considered lowly and was viewed as an underpaid servant asked to tutor children.
Gough Whitlam Womens Rights Policy The Womens Rights Policy was established by Gough Whitlam in1975, being that women get equal rights. Before the policy was undertaken, women had minimal rights. They were not allowed to receive equal pay which meant that many women were suffering from unemployment, leading to women not working because there was no beneifit. Not only did women have no rights, they were being sexually harrassed or abused by superior males and discriminated in education. Before the policy was accepted, women were unable to receive loans if they were single, were not allowed to go to university, and even make decisions about their own bodies, e.g.