Woolf And Socrates: A Comparative Analysis
Both Woolf and Socrates have been questioning society as a whole. Woolf questioned the ideals about how men and women where treated in society and how gender is just a social construct people made up. While Socrates questioned why society made something pious or impious and people followed it without understanding why. Why do Woolf and Socrates ask and tell us all these things? Its not as though they would be able to change the world, but just to be able to make people to think about the construct of society and it’s role. Why do I have to get a job, while my wife stays home with the kids? Why do I follow this god if he doesn’t make me happy? Why are these laws in place? These are just some of the many questions they would make you ask,
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Even here you are able to see that Euthyphro is following an ideal way of society that he is not able to put into words. He isn’t able to do this because he doesn’t even know why, what he is doing is good or bad. Conforming into society is why he does this, he was taught to think and act a certain way because of his class, gender and god. Euthyphro never asks questions like why do I have to believe in this type of god and no another. That was Euthyphro’s downfall, not asking questions about what he didn’t understand but just blindly following it because society told him he had too. Socrates understood society had a tremendous role in people’s lives. The role society plays is one of the things Woolf talks about on what a good righter should understand. She wants women to be able to have a creative writing style "The androgynous mind is resonant and porous," Woolf continues, "it transmits emotion without impediment; it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided" (Woolf, 98). Woolf overtly states here in this quote that a creative mind is a marriage, or balance, of having the ability to have traits female emotionalism, with some male traits of productivity and style. She basically states that men don’t have to choose between genders but woman cannot. Women sometimes have to choose between their art of writing or society's expectations. A woman will only write as men only when they have the same freedom of
Even here you are able to see that Euthyphro is following an ideal way of society that he is not able to put into words. He isn’t able to do this because he doesn’t even know why, what he is doing is good or bad. Conforming into society is why he does this, he was taught to think and act a certain way because of his class, gender and god. Euthyphro never asks questions like why do I have to believe in this type of god and no another. That was Euthyphro’s downfall, not asking questions about what he didn’t understand but just blindly following it because society told him he had too. Socrates understood society had a tremendous role in people’s lives. The role society plays is one of the things Woolf talks about on what a good righter should understand. She wants women to be able to have a creative writing style "The androgynous mind is resonant and porous," Woolf continues, "it transmits emotion without impediment; it is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided" (Woolf, 98). Woolf overtly states here in this quote that a creative mind is a marriage, or balance, of having the ability to have traits female emotionalism, with some male traits of productivity and style. She basically states that men don’t have to choose between genders but woman cannot. Women sometimes have to choose between their art of writing or society's expectations. A woman will only write as men only when they have the same freedom of