Modern societies have been built on patriarchy, giving men more power, rule and opportunities than women. Men have been put in positions of higher power and been given more privilege for quite some time, which later led to a large disparity between the roles of women and men in society. The industrial revolution caused the inequality between women and men to blossom. This period of time revolutionized the economy and the infrastructure of the world, giving men even more power and chances to advance in society while leaving women behind the times. Key pieces of literature and motion pictures from the modernity era capture and hold the way of life during these times, displaying the dissimilarity in how women were treated and dealt with. Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, and David Lynch’s Eraserhead, do not hold women as the main …show more content…
This is easiest seen through the fact that all of the maids that they had were women. This gives the impression that a woman’s role in a family was to cook food and keep a clean house, both of these roles were taken care of by the mother and the maid. This can also be seen when Kafka wrote that the sister would want to do these things as if it was expected of her and society had taught her that this is what she was supposed to do. He writes: “His sister would sometimes ask hi father whether he would like a beer, hoping for the chance to go and fetch it herself”(part 2). Another major proof of the inequality between women and men was the fact that women weren’t able to own property. This is evident from the fact that all of their tenants were men. Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” brilliantly exposes the disparity that was developed in the rights and opportunities that women and men had. This story serves as proof of the exponential growth of patriarchy that came after the industrial