Gender Roles and Feminism
Why are women lives based on the men around them? These stories engaged in women lacking empowerment and men consistently having the dominant role. Throughout the stories and poems read in literature, a few have came in common with this theory. Before women received more rights, they highly dependent on their marriage, which made theirs lives limiting and confining. The gender roles were very stereotyped, meaning women stayed at home being controlled by the men, and the men would work, so they had the higher power in the household. Feminism is the act of women ending changing laws for gender balance, social barriers, empowerment power, and pointing out the multiple ways that females have been, and continue to be oppressed, …show more content…
Feminism and gender roles are emphasized and play a major role throughout this “hour”. This story was a Proto-Feminist archetype, Choppin being the hero. The quest is for her self identity and happiness. Throughout the story she struggles with her marriage, love, and family. Her husband dying at a young age made her come to the realization of how life wasn’t exciting nor had a sense of freedom. It was as if she couldn’t enjoy herself or was able to do what she wanted without it being …show more content…
Emma would make mistakes as a wife, and made other people question her feminism. She is stuck in a situation where she can search for help from someone to save her from the debt or Charles, her husband. She got into a marriage that was basically forced, and she became very bitter. Her lack of excitement after getting married symbolized she didn’t married for love, she did it for money. These type of marriages are very common and leads to the husband having the dominant role and restricting the wife on all of her actions and limiting her future
Why are women lives based on the men around them? These stories engaged in women lacking empowerment and men consistently having the dominant role. Throughout the stories and poems read in literature, a few have came in common with this theory. Before women received more rights, they highly dependent on their marriage, which made theirs lives limiting and confining. The gender roles were very stereotyped, meaning women stayed at home being controlled by the men, and the men would work, so they had the higher power in the household. Feminism is the act of women ending changing laws for gender balance, social barriers, empowerment power, and pointing out the multiple ways that females have been, and continue to be oppressed, …show more content…
Feminism and gender roles are emphasized and play a major role throughout this “hour”. This story was a Proto-Feminist archetype, Choppin being the hero. The quest is for her self identity and happiness. Throughout the story she struggles with her marriage, love, and family. Her husband dying at a young age made her come to the realization of how life wasn’t exciting nor had a sense of freedom. It was as if she couldn’t enjoy herself or was able to do what she wanted without it being …show more content…
Emma would make mistakes as a wife, and made other people question her feminism. She is stuck in a situation where she can search for help from someone to save her from the debt or Charles, her husband. She got into a marriage that was basically forced, and she became very bitter. Her lack of excitement after getting married symbolized she didn’t married for love, she did it for money. These type of marriages are very common and leads to the husband having the dominant role and restricting the wife on all of her actions and limiting her future