This example of pathos continues to compel readers to feel a certain way making them want to read more to find out what happens to the marriages and how the women are treated. Jessop continues to create a story that flows in chronological order to her story which adds to her logos credibility and story purpose. She furthers this by writing extensively and in great detail about her trips with her husband and wives. Each time she is put in a new place it is always names and there and instances where people are named to be seen there. This backs up what she is saying because it could be looked into and her story would line up with facts.
Taking a gander at how every story experiences love, marriage and suicide will successfully look at the stories. These are questions that many have asked since the beginning of time to which no one has ever really adequately answered. This satiating of an intense desire for another result in a varying of consequential results based on freedom, suicide and betrayal. Freedom in the Love Suicide at Amijima involves the double love triangles involving love in one story can mean loathe in another. In the story, The Love Suicides at Amijima, the characters Jihei and Osan, are cousins who wed not for themselves but rather for their family.
He also says things that are rude verbally. He calls Darzee “...a stupid tuft of feathers.” He threatens to kill Darzee’s babies, by saying, “If I could get up to your nest I’d roll your babies out!” He also interrogates Chuchundra, and calls him names.
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.
It portreys that people can still care for their loved ones even if the society is tragic. In the story Anthem, the novella illustrates marriage as a crule action to take upon. The society in Anthem has strict laws that if acted, the person could be punished. “For men are forbidden to take notice of women, and women are forbidden to take notice of men.” (Rand 38).
Burak defines gender socialization as “the process of interaction through which we learn the gender norms of our culture and acquire a sense of ourselves as feminine, masculine, or even androgynous” (Burack, 1). According to Burack, people of different genders behave differently not due to biological factors, but due to socialization that teaches individuals to behave in a particular way in order to belong to a certain gender. For example, women may tend to be nurturing, not because they are biologically programed to be caretakers, but as a result of society teaching them through toys and media to act as mothers. In this way, gender becomes a performance based on expectations rather than natural behaviors or biology, a phenomenon called “doing
Silko’s essay is about how women are portrayed as the weaker sex or targeted by males because females appear weaker to males. Females are “… targeted as easy prey by muggers, rapist, and serial killers” (808). Throughout Silko ’s essay she talks about how her father taught her to be independent by teaching her how to shoot and handle guns in order for her to protect herself. Her essay also talked about different situations in which either she or her family members have been put in when they may have needed to use deadly or lethal force.
In Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns , Nana tells Mariam that a man always finds a way to blame a woman. This mistreatment of women is depicted in the novel by utilizing multiple examples. Throughout the novel, men were able to use women as scapegoats in the Afghani society that deemed women as unequal to men.
The pre-colonial and postcolonial Igbo society has been observed to be male dominated. Men reign supreme in sociocultural affairs while the female figure has specific limited prescribed roles, a confirmation of absence of feministic ideologies. Motherhood, being submissive to the husband and generally domestic dutiesare some of the roles women are associated with. As the title of the novel by Buchi Emecheta Second Class Citizenimplies, the female figure has been treated as a lesser significant sexwithin the Igbo society considering that equalityamong women is limited by their fathers, husbands and the general patriarchy system. This is something Adah finds quite the same when she moves to England whereby with her African descent she continues to suffer womanhood struggles.
Santiago was not aware that he was going to be murdered because he did not commit a crime. This murder cannot be stopped because it is fate. This society believes that virginity is more important than someone’s life and will kill for it to be ‘restored’. Women are raised to be servable and were forced into marriages. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author illustrates how women are looked down upon society and are considered objects, causing them to feel inferior or used, to show the cultural expectation of machismo and superiority that men portray in the book.
The distinct separation of power between men and women is repeatedly seen in Things Fall Apart, a fictional book by Chinua Achebe. Through this separation, it is seen that in a male-dominated society, men dislike matriarchal power in women and cause an imbalance in power; but women are just as needed as men in families and societies. Notably, it is clear, that the men in Umuofia view daughters as inferior; women are viewed as properties and they aren’t as well-praised as much as the first-born males. Additionally, women are viewed as mild and weak. In many cases, Okonkwo even uses the words “woman” or “womanly” to insult a man for being weak or of a lesser social rank.
In the real world people have their own gender roles and expectations some of these expectations can be ethnocentric. Similarly, in Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe , the protagonist Okonkwo is the hegemony over all of the women. Gender roles influence other characters in Things Fall Apart because of the things that either the male or female have to do in their everyday lives. Okonkwo is scared to be portrayed as not masculine for not following the expectations for being a male. Further, evidence suggest that Okonkwo is affected by these gender role expectations:
Although the idea of women have changed drastically throughout American society, there are other parts of the world where their expectations about women are different than our society. In our society women are encouraged to be our own leaders and do what we want, instead of being told what to do and not have a say in the matter. In the novel Things Fall Apart, women are expected to stay at home, educate the children, cook the meals for the men, and do the work of the house. Throughout the novel, there are several instances where women are characterized as the weaker sex, the role of playing a submissive wife over a man, and the men 's point of view of the women. This is a reason as to why the idea of women in Umuofia needs to change for the better.
In the Ibo hierarchal society, women are the subject of unequal treatment and patronization. They are considered weak and are not given any power. As the novel, Things Fall Apart unravels, the author, Chinua Achebe reveals the distinct attributes of femininity. Feminine traits are also viewed with disdain in Umuofian society, especially by the protagonist of the novel, Okonkwo. His past experiences shape his disposition and give rise to his stereotypical mentality; however, several events contradict the prevalent perspective of women, leading to Okonkwo facing conflicts within himself.
The role of women in literature crosses many broad spectrums in works of the past and present. Women are often portrayed as weak and feeble individuals that submit to the situations around them, but in many cases women are shown to be strong, independent individuals. This is a common theme that has appeared many times in literature. Across all literature, there is a common element that causes the suffering and pain of women. This catalyst, the thing that initiates the suffering of women, is essentially always in the form of a man.
