Over the course of time women’s gender and social status has limited their abilities to thrive, live, achieve and educate themselves. In Isben’s Hedda Gabler, Tagore’s “Punishment,” and Ichiyo’s “Separate Ways” women reflect the limitations placed on them because of gender and social status. Alhough, Hedda, Okyo and Chandara live in different worlds and different class they still share similar outcomes due to their restrictions. Nevertheless, all three women have different motives and outcomes along the way. Isben’s Hedda Gabler, Tagaore’s “Punishment, and Ichiyo’s “Separate Ways” present the limitations of women through gender and social status as an effect on their decisions and outcomes.
Isben’s Hedda Gabler shows a young woman’s decisions limited by her gender, her limitation is education. It can
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Okyo is limited in two ways: being treated as an object and subornation to men. For example, a boy comments and says women should be kept and proper (Ichiyo 912). The boy’s words suggest that women are seen as objects that should be maintained, thus the limitation will certainly effect Okyo’s outcomes. She hopes for a better life, but will never receive one because men see her as an object to control. That limitation will lead to the idea men are superior. Okyo’s only way of having a better life would be to give up her independence to a man. For example, Okyo told Kichizo she was to be a mistress and that she feel like she has a no other choice (Ichiyo 912). Becoming a mistress was her only way of bettering her life, although it would limit her to the power of a man. Unlike, Hedda Gabler and/or “Punishment whose women searched for freedom, Okyo limitations left her with the decision of releasing her freedom (Ichiyo 913). Similar to the other women, she chooses a better life, but in contrast, she is leaving independence while the other ran to