Roles Of Women In The Scarlet Letter And The Last Of The Mohicans
The role of a woman changes. The role of women changes in different countries and even cultures. One can argue that in Hispanic or Latin culture, a women's role is to be housewives. But it's not just in Hispanic or Latin Culture. It wasn't so long ago that a lot of people in the US saw women as being housewives. To this day there are some who believe that the role of a woman is be a stay at home wife, take care of the kids, and clean around the house. That their role is to be caretakers, be submissive to men, weak, and that they are helpless.
That is the role of women in the books The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. In the books mentioned above, the female leads are portrayed as weak. Their main roles are to be there for the men and give them support emotionally. Their role is to follow their orders and be submissive because men are superior. Today women …show more content…
One example would be when the men “ordered the women and children to retire [and that they were] to be silent” (Cooper, 283). This shows that men are the ones in power and are the boss of women. It also shows how women were thought to be like children since it says that the children AND women were ordered. It shows that men are superior. It also implies that women didn’t have a voice or the freedom to fully express themselves since they we’re order to remain silent. Women were treated unfairly. In the book there is a scene where a man was “greeting all the men he passed” but he “neglected to [greet and notice] the women” as if their presence was “of no importance” (Cooper, 287). This portrays how men didn’t see women at the same level as they saw themselves. It shows how little they thought of women. This man in the book didn’t dare to look at the women but he happily acknowledged the men. Because of this the reader can once again infer that men are
That is the role of women in the books The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. In the books mentioned above, the female leads are portrayed as weak. Their main roles are to be there for the men and give them support emotionally. Their role is to follow their orders and be submissive because men are superior. Today women …show more content…
One example would be when the men “ordered the women and children to retire [and that they were] to be silent” (Cooper, 283). This shows that men are the ones in power and are the boss of women. It also shows how women were thought to be like children since it says that the children AND women were ordered. It shows that men are superior. It also implies that women didn’t have a voice or the freedom to fully express themselves since they we’re order to remain silent. Women were treated unfairly. In the book there is a scene where a man was “greeting all the men he passed” but he “neglected to [greet and notice] the women” as if their presence was “of no importance” (Cooper, 287). This portrays how men didn’t see women at the same level as they saw themselves. It shows how little they thought of women. This man in the book didn’t dare to look at the women but he happily acknowledged the men. Because of this the reader can once again infer that men are