1950's Roles In The 1950s

There are multiple different and similar characteristics between the 1950’s and the world that we live in today, many of these changes have been in the way that people have changed roles in the last fifty years, one of which has been the role of women in the home setting and in the world, another is the role that African-Americans play in today’s society, one similarity is that society still frowns upon alcoholism, many of these ideas are not new but a few have changed into a manner that we have today. Over the last fifty years women have started to take a more proactive role in the home setting, beside. Where as in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams to of the main characters Maggie the cat and Mea are seen as objects, as shown in the text “That woman of yours has a better shape on her than Gooper’s got on his woman” (Williams, 39) on these text Big Daddy is objectifying the bodies of Mea and …show more content…
Back in the 1950’s women were seen as objects and were closer to second class citizens. Today women hold very important roles in the world, they are CEOs, Doctors, and lawyers. Another group that has come far in the last fifty years is the African-American community. Ever since the 1960’s, when the civil rights acts were passed the African-American community has made significant strides. In fact today the most prestigious office in the United States, the presidency, is held by Barack Obama. Another way that today’s society compares to the 1950’s is the way that we as a society deal with the problem of addition. In the 1950’s the way that they dialed with someone that is addicted to a substance was to just remove them from society. Today we have developed methods that help the addict accumulate back into society in a healthy way. Over the last 50 years the world has changed, in both minor and major ways, but today a lot of those changes are seen as being