Simone De Beauvoir Analysis

Patriarchy is the impression that males are the leaders over their households, children, and wife and females are ought to be obedient. Simone de Beauvoir, a french writer and feminist, argued that “Genesis 2 and 3 (the story of Adam and Eve in the gardens) is the fundamental myth that deems woman to be a relative rather than autonomous being”. Simone also believed that “women were advised to be critical of the means by which they had been prohibited from reaching their full, human potential; the Bible was understood to be a literary collection that merely taught us why we had become so but not how to change the situation”. In 1 Timothy 2:13 is assumed based on the creation accounts (Genesis 1 and 2), that the submission of women emerge from the scripture, “Adam was formed first, then Eve.” Additionally, In Genesis 2:22-23 is mentioned how God created the women of the man’s ribs and then the man speaks, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of a Man this one was taken.” So, the woman is believed having to be submissive to the man because she was made of a man’s ribs and also because he was born first. …show more content…
Bible times are a different time from today and some people still don’t understand that; women are becoming more leaders now and we shouldn’t live according to the bible times. Furthermore, In Genesis 3, The first Sin and Its Punishment, is the story of how Eve was tempted by the serpent to eat fruit from the tree of life, even though she was told not to by God and she also gave some to Adam. Therefore, in Genesis 3:16 the women’s penalty is having difficulties and risks of conceiving, carrying, and giving birth to children; this portrays patriarchy not as grounded in creation, but in the conflicted relationship between men and women resulting from the