Danielle Field
1st Period
Which World is Better for Women? Neither the Puritan world nor the world of the Cavalier poets is a good environment for women. As The Crucible, Year of Wonders, and “To His Coy Mistress” demonstrate, both societies has positive and negative aspects for women to live in, but overall the Puritan world is better. In both times, women have less power. In The Crucible, Danforth is aware that Elizabeth is pregnant, but he refuses to believe her.
"DANFORTH: We have thought it too convenient to be credited. However, if I should tell you now that I will let her be kept another month; and if she begin to show her natural signs, you shall have her living another year until she is delivered..." (85).
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Since men were above her, he had they were able to do whatever they wanted and were able to carry out whatever punishment they deemed fair. In Year of Wonders, Anna has memories of how her father, Joss Bont, would always take advantage of her mother. “He had clapped the branks on her after she cursed him in public for his constant drunkenness . . .I saw my mother’s face framed in the iron bars, the desperate look in her wild eyes, the inhuman sounds that came from her throat as the iron bit pressed hard against her tongue” (130). This is another instance in which a man took advantage of a woman. Josiah would often abuse and threaten Anna’s mother as well as Anna while she was growing up. Not only was it acceptable for men to treat women poorly, but it was also expected. In “To His Coy Mistress”, the status of women is also below men, but they create an illusion that women are treated higher. Women, such as the mistress in the poem were put on a pedestal to make them feel special, which led them to be more inclined to sleep with the man who desired them. In the poem, the narrator tried to impress the girl with his everlasting love for …show more content…
Proctor was so horrified because no woman had ever spoken to him like that and he considered it very disrespectful. Women weren’t expected to be spoken civilly toward. Proctor also does not allow her to go anywhere without his permission;
"How do you go to Salem when I forbid it? [...] I'll whip you if you dare leave this house again!" (55).
Women were not supposed to read, so when Giles Corey finds his wife reading a book in the middle of the night, he is convinced she is reading a witch’s book and becomes very worried;
“Giles: Martha, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a corner, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that?” (33).
If a woman is able to read, which was not very common, she was only allowed to read the bible. Women were prevented from gaining any other knowledge or education besides what the men allowed them to know or from the bible or church. In the society of The Crucible, women did not have much freedom, but it was not all bad. There was also good that came out of a male dominant society. A woman’s husband or the man in charge of her always knew everything including where she was. The men in charge of them would not let them be harmed by someone else. If one man were to attempt harm another’s wife, the husband would go after that man immediately and protect her, so women were never
1st Period
Which World is Better for Women? Neither the Puritan world nor the world of the Cavalier poets is a good environment for women. As The Crucible, Year of Wonders, and “To His Coy Mistress” demonstrate, both societies has positive and negative aspects for women to live in, but overall the Puritan world is better. In both times, women have less power. In The Crucible, Danforth is aware that Elizabeth is pregnant, but he refuses to believe her.
"DANFORTH: We have thought it too convenient to be credited. However, if I should tell you now that I will let her be kept another month; and if she begin to show her natural signs, you shall have her living another year until she is delivered..." (85).
By not valuing her word …show more content…
Since men were above her, he had they were able to do whatever they wanted and were able to carry out whatever punishment they deemed fair. In Year of Wonders, Anna has memories of how her father, Joss Bont, would always take advantage of her mother. “He had clapped the branks on her after she cursed him in public for his constant drunkenness . . .I saw my mother’s face framed in the iron bars, the desperate look in her wild eyes, the inhuman sounds that came from her throat as the iron bit pressed hard against her tongue” (130). This is another instance in which a man took advantage of a woman. Josiah would often abuse and threaten Anna’s mother as well as Anna while she was growing up. Not only was it acceptable for men to treat women poorly, but it was also expected. In “To His Coy Mistress”, the status of women is also below men, but they create an illusion that women are treated higher. Women, such as the mistress in the poem were put on a pedestal to make them feel special, which led them to be more inclined to sleep with the man who desired them. In the poem, the narrator tried to impress the girl with his everlasting love for …show more content…
Proctor was so horrified because no woman had ever spoken to him like that and he considered it very disrespectful. Women weren’t expected to be spoken civilly toward. Proctor also does not allow her to go anywhere without his permission;
"How do you go to Salem when I forbid it? [...] I'll whip you if you dare leave this house again!" (55).
Women were not supposed to read, so when Giles Corey finds his wife reading a book in the middle of the night, he is convinced she is reading a witch’s book and becomes very worried;
“Giles: Martha, my wife. I have waked at night many a time and found her in a corner, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that?” (33).
If a woman is able to read, which was not very common, she was only allowed to read the bible. Women were prevented from gaining any other knowledge or education besides what the men allowed them to know or from the bible or church. In the society of The Crucible, women did not have much freedom, but it was not all bad. There was also good that came out of a male dominant society. A woman’s husband or the man in charge of her always knew everything including where she was. The men in charge of them would not let them be harmed by someone else. If one man were to attempt harm another’s wife, the husband would go after that man immediately and protect her, so women were never