Self In 1958

Have you ever been or felt like you were discriminated against? Women have always been treated differently than men. Throughout history women have been minorities because their voices have been ignored. After women obtained suffrage, they used that right to try and obtain gender equality. Even if women were educated well, they didn’t have nearly as many opportunities as men. Women used to graduate from college and get married right away, because that's what society thought they should do. But most women didn’t actually want to get married. Once they were married they had families and many felt like something in their life was missing; therefore, they were unhappy. They figured out that the missing thing was doing something else rather than
Women feel pressured to act and to behave a certain way, and to value themselves based on society’s expectation, but women are of the opinion they have more to offer than their limited role of this.
First of all, women feel that society is making decisions for them. In the poem “Self in 1958” by Anne Sexton, she expresses her perspective how women are controlled like dolls, and women discern that society has created their identity even if that's not who they are. Throughout the poem the author writes about how women feel are controlled by others. For instance, the speaker explains, “Someone plays with me, / plants me in the all-electric kitchen, / Is this what Mrs. Rombauer said? / Someone pretends with me--- / I am walled in solid by their noise--- / ” (21-25). This means that women are housewives, because others have decided that that is their role. Irma Rombauer is an author of The Joy of Cooking, so when the speaker asks “Is this what Mrs. Rombauer said?”, she is referring to the fact that women were supposed to cook and clean. She also talks about how when someone plays pretend with her she can’t do and
In “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath, the speaker expresses how society tries to manage women and it causes them to be disappointed with their looks if they have aged. In the poem a women uses candlelight and moonlight to judge her appearance, because it may not be truthful. Then if she is ageing she can’t tell and is untroubled by her appearance. For example, the speaker says, “Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. / ”(12).. Society has created a conjecture of how women should look. The woman tries to use other sources of light to conceal evidence of aging so that she can be satisfied with her looks. Eventually women come to the realization that they can no longer cover up the fact that they are aging. Society has engendered women to be dejected with their physical appearance. Women grow to resent the natural process of ageing. The speaker shows this when she says, “In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.” (17-18). The women is looking in a lake and she sees that she is getting older. Her ageing is compared to a terrible fish rising to the surface; therefore, she sees her age as threatening and wants to be young and valued again. Others play a significant role in influencing women, but women have figured out they can