Kingston Mukherjee Bharati's No Name Woman
How Women Have Been Repressed
There are a lot of things that I have read and have influenced me. I think that reading an essay, book, or even just a poem can bring endless imagination. Reading opens endless worlds, and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H., “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati, and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia, the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different cultures and different times.
In “No Name Woman,” Kingston writes about how her aunt was chased and almost killed by the people in her village, because they thought that she had gotten pregnant outside of marriage; after being chased and almost killed by the villagers, she commits suicide and kills her newborn baby also. Kingston writes about how women were supposed to follow certain rules imposed on them, without embarrassing their families. Her mother warns Kingston to not “humiliate” her family (9). Kingston’s mother warns her not to act the same as her aunt, because she …show more content…
There were no women playing any roles in any plays, or even try and write anything; women were not allowed to write or create art. Woolf writes about how she struggles wondering as to “why no woman wrote a word” of the literature in the “time of Elizabeth” (1-2). She wonders as to how it is possible that everything that had to do with art or literature was created or played by men. Woolf keeps asking questions about “what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith,” who would have been just as smart as Shakespeare (8)? Would the situation have been different for her because she would have been a woman? Would she have been repressed into not using her intelligence to create anything, just because she is a
There are a lot of things that I have read and have influenced me. I think that reading an essay, book, or even just a poem can bring endless imagination. Reading opens endless worlds, and often time helps people in the real world. In “No Name Woman” by Kingston Maxine H., “Two Ways To Belong In America” by Mukherjee Bharati, and “What If Shakespeare Had Had A Sister” by Woolf Virginia, the authors write about how women have been repressed through the years in different cultures and different times.
In “No Name Woman,” Kingston writes about how her aunt was chased and almost killed by the people in her village, because they thought that she had gotten pregnant outside of marriage; after being chased and almost killed by the villagers, she commits suicide and kills her newborn baby also. Kingston writes about how women were supposed to follow certain rules imposed on them, without embarrassing their families. Her mother warns Kingston to not “humiliate” her family (9). Kingston’s mother warns her not to act the same as her aunt, because she …show more content…
There were no women playing any roles in any plays, or even try and write anything; women were not allowed to write or create art. Woolf writes about how she struggles wondering as to “why no woman wrote a word” of the literature in the “time of Elizabeth” (1-2). She wonders as to how it is possible that everything that had to do with art or literature was created or played by men. Woolf keeps asking questions about “what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith,” who would have been just as smart as Shakespeare (8)? Would the situation have been different for her because she would have been a woman? Would she have been repressed into not using her intelligence to create anything, just because she is a