At the same time, Ryna is abandoned and left with the children, yet her name lives on through a scary, haunting gulch. Carr says‘The community rewards Solomon’s abandonment of his children but punishes Ryna’s inability to take care of them alone’ . This shows the oppressive, sexists attitudes the society in the novel has and portrays the plight Morrison presents black women to
She is only addressed as “Curley’s Wife” – her real name is never said. This has strong suggestions that women at this time were men’s possessions, as if they were used merely as objects, part of their property and didn’t have the same rights as they did – women are inferior. The phrase “I don’t know why I can’t talk to you. I ain’t doin’ no harm to you” could me shadowing how women are simply seen as either virgins or whores. Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity.
The same has made the women to lose hope and resulted in giving up on men. This system is considered as a vital cultural value among most of African tribes when in actual sense should be abolished and termed out casted for the betterment of poor women and children who are raised under the same bubble. In conclusion woman expectations in many African communities is a huge dilemma which has made a few successful by getting good education and getting married in modern setting and the rest perishing as wives with kids who have no basis in life. This kind of marital injustices should be declared a national disaster in most of the
Furthermore, sometimes raped black women it leads them to be stressful, depression and sometime death. Black men were unable to help or defend their women because they were slaves themselves, therefore they had no power which means they just have to see and do nothing about it. Davis describe the important information about how badly is the black women being treated. “Many white men, who began by taking a slave girl in an act of sexual exploitation ended by loving her and the children she bore” (Davis, 1981:25). This shows that black women were treated like animal and treasure just for having high number of children.
In The Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison shows how Pecola, a poor black girl who believes she is ugly because she and her community base their ideals of beauty on "whiteness" giving up and not trying hard for her wish of the bluest eyes. Love is as good as you make it. The quote that relates to this is “Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, and stupid people love stupidly” (Pg.47, Morrison). This quote is significant because Cholly Pocola’s abusive father, an alcoholic man who rapes his daughter at the end of the novel which is the climax of the book.
The whole thing takes place just for Delia’s submissiveness. If Delia has been audacious from earlier the whole situation would not take place. At the end Delia needs to use violence to get rid from her cruel husband. Delia, who really cares for her beloved husband, finally lets the snake free in the house for Sykes and when Sykes lastly screams when the snake assails him, Delia does not pay any attention of his screaming. One of Hurston's central preoccupations in "Sweat" is the problem of oppression within the black community.
‘Women must creep’ (Elaine R. Hedges) illustrates the thought that women shouldn’t be heard, but do only what they’re required to do, reinforcing how women were demeaned. The lack of power women had was not only present within their marriage, but also in society as males were perceived as the more significant gender, so women were patronised and dismissed by patriarchal control. Patriarchal control is represented clearly by John, the protagonist’s husband, which increases complexity within the novel as the isolation and ‘The resting cure’ he enforces upon her, causes her mental state to degenerate further, despite John believing it is helping his wife. There are a number of methods used to increase the characters complexity in The Yellow Wallpaper. For example, the use of epistolary displays a 1st person narrative and is in the present tense, “I never used to be so sensitive.” This is present when the protagonist writes to herself, Gilman uses this technique in order to show the
Almost everything is under control of men. Women’s freedom is overlooked by many authority figures and they are almost deprived from freedom of speech, freedom of gathering and freedom to own properties. In many aspects women in Kenya are extremely oppressed, even though some western countries think that Kenya is one of the African countries that the offer most equal freedom for men and women. According to some Kenyan men’s mentalities, regardless of their position, they believe that women’s duties are limited to the house work such as cleaning, washing, cooking and taking care of children. It is women’s duty to accomplish these tasks or else she will get punished for failing to preform or to not obey her husband commands.
Women are described as submissive victims in religions because the patriarchal system portrays them as passive individuals who lack the ability to choose their faith. Moreover, hegemonic dominance fabricates a social pressure for women to fit themselves into beautiful images that are unfairly based on male expectations. In addition, Moore demonstrates that women are made to follow the male desires and serve a submissive role in family. Beyond its negative effects on women, this hegemonic dominance also oppresses minorities. The author reveals that white males with their undeserved privileges develop hatred towards minorities in their communities.
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.