The Triumphs of a Woman is What We Live By
During slavery, women turn into victims in the most horrifying situations possible. Women struggled with rapists that has touched them of places where their innocence lies and something so precious until the master raptures her virtuousness knowing that the wailing tears and screams would not be enough for the master to stop his actions. So what does it mean to be a woman?
Sojourner Truth was six-foot feminist and women’s right activist that spoke with a great deal of boast about the inadequate tribulations to defend the dignity of women. Sojourner Truth was not only an antislavery legend, but she was the divinity that many women coveted to be. However, in Sojourner Truth’s speech “Ain’t A Woman”, Truth explains the soundless voices she had inside her head to hide during her childhood. The influence that is taken into account is why she purposely contradicts herself with a rhetorical question and appropriation of “Ain’t I a woman “in her speech. From slavery to today’s generation, the forbidding treatments of how both genders are treated differently has not only affected the African American race, it has a sense of control from all ethnicities. As a result, her speech reflects how cultural attitudes played
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A woman is defined as an individual that tends to her family by cooking, catering, cleaning and categorized as obedient and fragile. Since the war between genders roles have been immortalized for thousands of years, how does the unfair treatments interfere with nationality? Arabic women are forced to wear hijabs, abayas and niqabs because their spouses does not want them to be seen by anyone Another example can be a growing economic problem that young girls are being forced into a sex trade. However, the unfair treatments goes as far as nationality, it is a trace of history that is not told with a contented ending. It is the veracity of brawls that women face from the past to the present