Essay About Women In The 1930's

During 1930’s in china, the circumstance of women’s life was terrifying. Most of the women’s from 1930’s faced a difficult experience as a married life, traditional roles and to be obedient with others. In addition, few wealthy families were seeking to be a modern. In 1930’s most of the women were forced to get married and samething tan has portrayed in the THE Joy LUCK CLUB. “ I know the tree-trunk lady was the old village matchmaker, and the other was huang taitai, the mother of the boy I would married”(44). At young age a girl lindo was married by forced because of the traditional roles. In 1930’s the traditional roles affect the women to seek and gain the greater equality in china. After women were married they were no longer considered as a family. “ A man could choose his own wife, with his parents permission of course” (45). But women wasn’t allowed to do it, they were cut of from this type of new thought. Women only were to obey others people and their elderly. Women are generally taught to …show more content…
The most important thing in the joy club is the idea of obedience. Mother want their daughters to listen to them and obey whatever they say. “ There are two kind of daughters those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind” (142). Their mother want their daughters to learn stuff and act according to it. In 1930’s women were to obey many thing. “When she is young, she obey her father; when is married, she obeys her husband; when she is widowed she obeys her son” (Shikibu murasaki). Late 1930s women were only to obey and samething as in novel, the mother want their daughter to listen to them. Mother talk about herself and that once she being obedient “In front of his parents I was obedient wife, just as they taught me” . They were to obey everything because it was their chinese culture. In other way it was because they are elder. The daughter are told to obey their mother because they know what is best for their daughter and they are