Colonel Vs Woman

Directly from the start of this passage men are shown to be more courageous and powerful than woman. The conversation that the young girl has with the colonel shows how society idolizes men to always be a better than women, the term she uses to describe women being inferior “jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era” is a very common and coherent example all of us have been hearing for a long time. The colonel debates that women don’t have the “actual nerve control of men”. This clearly shows us that in this society men overpower women. The Colonel further says that a woman’s reaction to any crisis is to panic or scream. “A women’s unfailing reaction to any crisis, is to scream”. This also serves as a proof of how women are considered to be less courageous and get the jitters whenever presented with a challenging situation.
This gives a clear image of how women are portrayed in Indian culture to be inferior to men. The fact that men are always more courageous, powerful or even dexterous than women is clearly wrong. In the end of the passage the hostess claims “because it was lying across my foot.” This evidently proves the colonel wrong as the hostess remained calm and dealt with a life threatening situation not with the prey but with the predator, a snake, in a clever way while like any other woman she was expected to jump up or even scream. The ideology in Indian culture that women are inferior and not given any right or power is both ethically and morally wrong. Throughout history there are many cases where women surpass men and vice versa. Just because a few women react differently to omnifarious situations doesn’t necessarily mean that every other woman