Erdrich uses character to show that blood relation doesn’t mean love. The birth mother of the narrator shows no love to her child from birth. When asked if she wants to try and save her disfigured child, she answers with a swift “No!” However, Betty, the janitor at the hospital, nurses the child, Linda, and decides she would keep it with out even being asked. Betty and her husband Albert begin to try to raise and perfect Linda. They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal.
Curley’s wife essay Curley’s wife is a character of wide complex and diversity. Her role slowly unwinds and develops throughout the course of the novel, constantly changing the reader’s opinion of her due to her ambiguous characteristics. We see through the novel that in 1930’s America women were generally treated with contempt through the course of the novel and as a general theme. Steinbeck depicts females as ‘trouble makers’ who bring ruin on men; Curley’s wife who walks the ranch as a temptress, seems to be a prime example of this destructive tendency. Women were looked upon as inferior; and incapable of the skills men were, so a woman’s role was mainly housework and nothing with manual requirement.
Social position of women play a massive role in this novel, and one such women that tolerates such violence is Celie. Celie is the protagonist in The Color Purple, who is left alone without a mother and a father who uses her as a mean for sexual pleasure. After Celie’s mother dies, Pa marries another women, around Celie’s age. Celie is oppressed continuously by her father. One such example is shown at the start of her fifth letter to God, “He beat me today cause he say I winked at a boy in church.” (p7) This incident shows us that women are molested for the smallest of reasons just so the men could show their authority over them.
After Aunt Tam fought and “resisted with every bone” (186) in her body, she runs away, symbolizing the rise of women. The resistance given by Aunt Tam shows the strength within women and the lack of credit given to the gender. Aunt Tam, showing her resistance, proves the ignorance Vietnam has towards feminism. The Vietnam government tried to “…mask their own terror” (25) in order to cover up their tracks. A few methods to stop oppositions of feminism, as seen in the novel, were to silence them.
Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter. The question ‘why does a mother need a daughter?’ was powerful because indeed, there shouldn’t be a need for a daughter if the parents aren’t going to be the ones owning their own child. As shown in stanza two, ‘heart’s needle’ signifies the heart which is delicate, fragile, life and love and the needle, so small but painful. The pain is not just an ordinary pain, the pain that comes from the needle is piercingly sharp which causes great damage to the heart. Every time the child does something wrong, the mother feels the heartache.
The story is told within the context of this sentence. Celie, the protagonist in the novel is silenced when she is denied agency in shaping her own life experiences. The silencing in its different forms begins, when Celie is raped and impregnated at the age of fourteen. Her silencing is also due to her dependency on patriarchal support, deprivation of education, has her self- esteem diminished and any form of love that she has or receives wiped out. The rape and other forms of silencing, also encountered by other women in the novel, make them embrace subjectivity and the patriarchal rule.
The Aunts teach the Handmaids at the Red Centre about how women are now protected and respected. In reality, Gilead is turning women against women. The girls at the Red Centre are supposed to testify about their past lives, and when Janine confessed she was raped, the other Handmaids didn’t sympathise with her at all but were forced to condemn her that the rape was Janine’s fault because she led them on. And Offred admitted that “We meant it, which was the bad thing”. The condemnation might have started out because they were forced to but eventually the Handmaids enjoy comdemning each other.
She says in Act I, “When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your father, should his health permit, will inform you of the fact”. Even though she does acknowledge that her husband should be part of the decision, she places herself before him and also belittles him by commenting on his poor health. In fact, Lord Bracknell, is never issued directly throughout the entire piece. As soon as Lady Bracknell’s introduced on the set, she begins commanding and controlling Gwendolen (and through her Jack). Evidently Lady Bracknell values society and its values, saying, “Never speak disrespectfully of Society,” but she goes totally against these values by playing the role of her husband in her daughter’s life (hypocritical).
The “Judges” Are Watching: Stifling the Woman For as far back as history there has women have always struggled to rise above the expectations that they can only be wives and mothers. Society conditions women from a young age; teaching that girls play with dolls and boys play with trucks, that “ladies” do not lift up their dresses in public and that Daddies go to work while Mommies take care of the children. Regardless of how progressive or feminist a family is, a woman will still encounter stereotypical gender roles and biases in society. Although laws restricting women from leading lives equal to men have been changed there are still social boundaries that many women could -but choose not to-cross. Today women can take a stand for equality, but no one has figured out the best way to take action.
The Meaning of Disgrace in Rape in Libya In the United States, women who are raped or claim they have been raped have numerous amounts of rights in order to prosecute the accused. There is zero tolerance for rape and the only issue for women is obtaining the courage to open up and accuse their rapist. Unlike the United States where women are fighting for factual evidence to place their assailant behind bars, the females in the country of Libya are threatened with death in the result of a rape. In the article Libya rape victims face ‘honour killings’ by Pascale Harter, the description of the after effects of rape victims can be seen as cruel and unjust. In a country where women are brought up to cover all parts of their bodies including their face, when rape occurs the whole town sees it as a dishonor to the victim.