Women's Oppression In Corregidora

Women’s Oppression in the literary perspective as compared to Corregidora

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” Women’s oppression began long before there was any form of recognition or attention given to it. Women oppression is defined as “a type of injustice oppression is the inequitable use of authority, law, or physical force to prevent others from being free or equal.” The word oppression is a significant label for what women had to endure ultimately because it is more than accurate which most are not able to accept. The fact that woman are treated with disregard already Black women are treated even worse as does Terhune states, “Too often, the experiences of Black women are homogenized within the race and the

The Scarlett Letter is based on false pretense and a woman giving her sex to someone that she is not married to. A practice common amongst men however when woman have sex for pleasure and pleasure only they are labeled as whores amongst other names to elaborate Hawthorne goes on to say,

“Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which the preacher and moralist might point, and in which they might vivify and embody their images of woman's frailty and sinful passion. Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin. And over her grave, the infamy that she must carry thither would be her only monument.”(Hawthorne 118).

This is a form of demeaning women and setting them beneath men by simply saying that they cannot do what men commonly do thus further enforcing