In ancient Greece, women were virtually invisible to those outside the home and their reputation was best when there was “the least possible talk about you among men, whether in praise or blame” (Thucydides 1.45.2). There was a Greek Proverb that said “a woman knew two great moments of her life: her marriage and her death” (Powell, 40). In ancient Greek culture, women were normally seen as objects for marriage and childbearing and in literature were often depicted with an uncontrollable sexual appetite causing them to lie and scheme. The Pandora myth affirms the gender dynamics of ancient Greek culture. This is shown by the way Hesiod describes Pandora, his attitude toward women, and his opinion about women’s roles and work.…
The characters represent a diverse stereotypes, Luis Valdez tries to use the theater as a weapon to end racism. Mexican characters in the work symbolize each cast against the run label, which allows readers to fully analyze and understand the prejudices that may well argue against race. By showing how Mexicans were treated by society through the rejection of the secretary of each representative, people could realize their own biases and to understand how Latinos…
The first thought that came to mind when reflecting back on all of the readings we have completed for the week comes from a line in Tilton’s “Miscengenation and the Pocahontas Narrative in Colonial and Federalist America.” On page twelve Tilton explains that historians have stated that the intermarriage between Pocahontas and Rolfe lead to keeping peace between the races and even the civilization of the Indians. This reminded me of the White Man’s Burden that is so often talked about when the discussion of whites taking over the Indian lands arises. The White Man’s Burden is the thought that whites are assigned to the task of teaching the native people what it means to be civilized, as well as integrating them into the typical white society. As discussed, Powhatan and his people already had systems of diplomacy developed just as the whites did. It may have been considered a less sophisticated system, determined largely by family structures, but despite being considered less complex, there was no visibly apparent reason on why it changed.…
An appreciation of the tribe’s alleged fundamentals is essential to understanding the fables erroneous nature. Warfare was crucial to the Amazon legend. The women’s supposed lust for battle and manly skill in warfare has been an imperishable element of the myth. Homer describes them as “a match for men in war”, their attacks being known as “no slight or womanish enterprise”1. According to Herodotus this manly warfare was the substance by which they defined themselves, “We are riders, our business is with the bow and the spear, and know nothing of women work”. The Greek art form Amazonomachy, devoted purely to Greek battles with Amazons, reveals that the Greeks also defined the Amazons by their military and cavalry expertise. Women had to serve a set time in the army2 and could not marry until having killed in battle3. Similarly, both Virgil and Diadorus Siculus say only virgins were permitted in the army. Kurgan graves in the Eurasian Steppes, initially believed to belong to Amazons4, support this military nature, being filled with weapons and having a young girl killed by arrows with bowed leg bones from excessive horse-riding. Through these sources of evidence we see the…
Choose one of the memoirs that we have read in class: Cofer’s “The Myth of the Latina…
Identity, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is “a group of characteristics, data or information that belongs exactly to one person”. To try and identify oneself is innate, self-analysis is what defines individuals. However, people of the same religion, same ethnicity, or even the same hair color are subject to stereotypes. “The Myth of the Latin Woman” embodies what it is to be a Hispanic woman in America trying to find and embrace her identity while defying stereotypes. Author Judith Ortiz Cofer uses a personal narrative essay to tell the story of the life of a Hispanic girl trying to assimilate herself while still holding on to her culture and traditions. By analyzing the different parts of this essay such as the narration mode, cause and effect model, the descriptive mode, and the language, we can understand better understand the essay.…
Women in Atienct Greek litetrue are describe in "Putting Her in Her Place: Women, Dirt, and Desire" by Anne Carson, as being wet, polluted, leaky and cold. This is used to describe the fact that many Greek writers such as Aristotle and Hesiod believed women to be more irrational than man, and unbounded to anything as men are, meaning women were more prone to sexual desires, jealousy, and emotions. Carson ties interesting points of his argument to certain Greeks myths, and the cultural norms these myths creates. The first being the myth of Pandora, the first women created by the gods for revenge, being the down fall of man. He ties this back to the use of the word polluted, pollution or other variations of the word used when describing women. Polluted is used to describe a women’s touch upon man will pollute him.The other was the myth of Zeus putting a veil on chaos…
The Iliad of Homer, showed women as being items of exchange for the men who had possessed them. They are shown in their social roles as mothers and wives. He states stereotypical characterizations of them. The reader understands that women are being treated as prizes, and that the male hero has to win or he'd have to resist fulfilling his heroic destiny. The characters of Hera and Athena, who are among the immortals, they are certainly strong women. Hera is the wife of Zeus and queen of the Olympians. She tricked her husband so that she is able to play with in the affairs of the Trojan War. The goddess of wisdom, and war, Athena attacked Ares two different occasions and still had to have him flee to Mount Olympus in defeat.…
The cases are numerous, almost unfathomable. How could it be that as many as 1,181 women and likely more, have gone missing with little to no attention paid until now? Finally, these women are getting some national and international attention, but only after the release of the staggering statistics by the RCMP. I can remember the two young girls in Maniwaki who went missing. (Pierosara, 2009) I remember seeing their faces on billboards on drives up to the cottage. I remember thinking, why haven’t their faces been plastered further into the city, why hasn’t this been on the news? The girls were labeled runaways, troublemakers and delinquents. Why is it that this case did not garner national media attention? The local news barely covered it.…
In Peruvian history, the people loved José de San Martín, an army general, and liberator extraordinaire. The people loved him so much that when he arrived in Lima, Peru in July, 1821, a lady walked up to him, swooned, fell into his arms, and repeatedly said “Mi General! Mi General!” San Martín was humbled, and he helped her up, and gave her an affectionate salute. Another woman approached him with her three sons, and offered them to him, so that they could become “useful members of society.” He graciously answered her, although it’s unknown whether he said yes. This woman offered all three of her sons to a man from Chile, whom the Limans had only met a few days before. These women loved San Martín, but many other Peruvians didn’t agree with…
I believe the way Huxley portrays and treats the female population reflects the inequalities in gender and misogyny in the early 20th century society which the novel was written in. I have read and analysed articles on this matter and have found them to all generally agree with my hypothesis. One thing I have found interesting is that I have found no articles written before the 1990’s on the gender issue in Brave New World. This could show how only recently it is becoming apparent to us in our society of a gender bias. Another important thing to note is that not all the critical essays I read were written by women; David Leon Higdon wrote a compelling article which proves that the misogyny and inequality in Brave New World is not something that takes a female feminist activist to point out. I have also read two other articles written by female authors, one being an anonymous UK student, and the other June Deery. For the most part, I wholly agreed with the points they made about the gender bias in Huxley’s work.…
The Greco-Roman society was a very patriarchal society. This is reflected throughout the myths in classical mythology. By looking at the classic mythology we will see that the roles women portrayed are very different than women's roles in today's society. Although there are a few similarities to women's roles in today's society, their roles are more like those women in the past. We can see this by looking at the attributes of Greco-Roman female gods and looking at the roles women play in the myths. By comparing the roles of women in the myths with women's roles today we will see that the roles have many differences and few similarities.…
Being a different race for a day? How will long will you last? The thought of black people for some people is bad. People have names for black people that are very unpleasant, they have groups that do atro things to black people, they used to make black people drink out of different bubblers, go to the bathroom in nasty and different bathrooms, go to a different schools than white people. According to The Huffington Post “ In 2016 more than 250 black people were killed by the police.” Also according to The Daily Wire “Black people are more than twice as likely as white Americans to be killed by police officers.” Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, readers learn that racism and sexism is a big topic in the book and in the real world. It has a negative impact on the world. It divides the world because some people have a different point of view on black and white people.…
Gender roles have changed with the times; women have worked to strip themselves of the house wife ideal too become independent working women. Though the way we see women now didn’t just happen overnight, it came from years and years of challenging gender ideals. That’s why to truly understand genders roles of women in modern day society we have to go back into the past and examine what really shaped gender and how we have come to see gender today. To answer those questions, we will look back at hunter gatherer and Native American society’s all the way through to World War I and the Cold war.…
Although written in different time periods and in dissimilar settings, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy are both feminist novels with main characters who are suppressed by their societies. Misogyny is fully apparent in both novels, and both Offred and Tess utilize similar means to endure their harsh societies.…