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In her pilgrimage to fight for women’s rights, activist Margaret Sanger created a speech on a severely controversial topic not only during her time period, but during our present time period as well. While many firmly disagreed with her and still do, she did bring to light a major disparity between sexes and social classes. By vocalizing her qualms with the rights of women, mainly in the middle and lower classes, to decide for themselves if they wish to have children or not. By voicing her opinions in an extremely misogynistic era she made herself a totem in women’s history. Women do have a right to decide for themselves if they wish to have children or not.
If I was in Simone’s situation I don’t think I’d be able to handle it as well as she did. I don’t plan to have any kids in the future and I feel like it would greatly affect my success in the future. I plan to get my PhD in psychology, so that's approximately eight years of post-secondary education and I am not financially stable enough to support myself and a child. I don’t think I could handle having a child this early on in my life.
For a short period of time, Taylor works at the “Burger Derby,” and struggles to accept her required uniform, one of “red caps, red-and-white-striped shirts, and what looked like red plastic shorts” (67). Taylor feels that the uniforms accentuate a woman’s body in such a way that is financially beneficial to the restaurant. Frustrated, Taylor stands up for what she believes in, resulting in an argument between her and her manager, as well as her termination. Furthermore, Sandi falls victim to the stereotype that a pregnancy is somewhat exclusively the woman’s fault and responsibility. After learning of Sandi’s pregnancy, “the father of her baby [tells] everyone that Sandi [is] an admitted schizophrenic and picked his name out of the high school yearbook when she found out she was pregnant” (89).
I am reminded of two sisters who found themselves in a similar situations to Jig and Sheri, with an unwanted pregnancy. The eldest of the two, in a relationship with man with the attributes of the American and the youngest with a man with the attribute of Lane Jr. The youngest decided not to have the baby because of her desire to follow her career path, as I believe Sheri did in "Good People". The Eldest chose to carry and have the baby despite the odds stacked against her, as I believe Jig did in "Hills Like White Elephants", they both were faced with a decision that would affect the remainder of their lives. The younger would wonder what it would have been like to raise and see the progression on the child she so willingly aborted and the eldest knowing that she made not only the right decision but also the best decision, to allow life to come forth because of love, which may be rocky but it is still
For example, when Lou Ann is pregnant and riding on the bus, she explains how relaxing it is to be pregnant because men do not, “rub up against her when the bus made sudden stops and turns.” Lou Ann feels as though the only way she can be left alone without being inappropriately touched is when she is visibly pregnant. Just because Lou Ann is a woman, she is leaned against and rubbed on by men. In addition, Taylor describes herself as, “Lucky that way,” because she does not have a father. Taylor hears so many stories and witnesses so many examples of poor treatment of women that she considers herself lucky to not have a father, a juxtaposition to the depression many children feel growing up without a parent.
In her essay, Sallie Tisdale describes some of the clients she had and the conversations she had before and after their abortions. The first client she mentions is an eighteen year old woman. Despite being so young, this is her fourth time being pregnant (Tisdale 414). Immediately, the audience notices the awful
For instance, a unwanted pregnancy normally occurs outside of marriage, since the social norm demands sexual abstinence before marriage, a woman will be rejected by society because she did not meet that social norm. Nevertheless secretly, she may have a way (like abortion) to escape from the scandal. In this regard, the narrator says, “this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child” (Kincaid 57). The narrator in
It is a sensitive topic and may even not be accepted in society. The woman is apprehensive and does not know what will happen next if she does decide to get an abortion (Norton). The relationship between the characters shows that the woman depends on the man’s approval but also seeks acceptance and
How preposterous is that! Finally, when she is not able to carry her babies farther any more. She has to beg other people to carry her two babies, but nobody responds or accepts her
Her gracefulness comes to late as she is compassionate to the misfit when she is about to die, and she pays the price for
Character Analysis of Blanche DuBois One of the main characters in a play by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire is Blanche DuBois. Blanche is a victim of her upbringing and the changing times she lives in. She was born to aristocratic family and raised to be taken care of. This romantic, art, music and poetry loving soul is unprepared for the world she lives in
In comparison to the rigid patriarchal society portrayed in “My Last Duchess”, Keats’ “La Belle Dame sans Merci” illustrates how the freedom of individual expression in the romantic period affects people’s perspective on love. While the narrative persona in “My Last Duchess” demands his wife to devote her love to him, the protagonist of “La Belle Dame sans Merci” devotes to the woman he loves even though the love is unrequited. This is evident through the repetition of the line “On the cold hill side.” throughout the poem. The noun phrase “cold hill” suggests that the knight is lonely and depressed when he waits for the woman solely, however unlike the narrative persona of “My Last Duchess”, he would not demand the woman to love him instead he would wait patiently until the day his affection towards her is accepted.
As a lower class citizen, she will be severely punished, since her only job is to be a tool for sexual reproduction. Offred cannot turn her back once she is told to do something because she is part of the lower rank in Gilead. Serena’s idleness leads to her abusing her power to get what she wants. This connects back to the theme because Serena Joy could have told Nick herself to have sexual activities with Offred, but instead tells Offred.
Serena may have weaponized sex against Offred, but she still values it. In the beginning of the novel she defines her relationship with the Commander as, “I’m his mistress... Outside woman” saying that it is her duty to “provide what is otherwise lacking” and calling it an “ignominious position” (Atwood 164). By showing the shame Offred feels about her ignominious position in society, it shows that Serena’s oppression and hate has changed Offred’s opinions on intimacy and sex. Another change within Offred is her expression of emotion with that person.
The family’s girl may also become a victim as critics will increase towards this girl’s honor. In addition, if the woman choose to have this child; at some points in her life, it will remind her of the event when she got raped which will bring her bad memories and create a long lasting trauma. Rape of woman takes place in many countries, a woman who is coming back home from a long night in dangerous
