Female infanticide is the deliberate and organized killing of girls at or soon after birth by the men in the society. This issue is more common in countries like India and China, where society values male children over female children because a female is considered a burden and a disgrace, or in the case of India a very expensive investment to the father. As a human being and a woman in this world, I view female infanticide to be outrageous and unrighteous and believe there should be a better concentration on this issue by the world. In Gustav Klimt’s piece titled Hope II 1907-08 (Oil, gold and platinum on canvas) at the Museum of Modern Art, the painting reveals the implications of childbirth for a woman and uses elements of death such as skeletons, praying, and mourning to portray a mother’s reaction to her unborn child. Gustav Klimt Hope II is effective in supporting my position against female infanticide because it captures the hurt and disappointment it causes not just for a mother, but for women everywhere to have a daughter killed because of her sex.
The four women in …show more content…
All of the women’s heads are bent looking down, their eyes are closed and their hands are raised as if they were praying. The difference between the pregnant women and the women beneath her is that we cannot see their bodies, only their heads and some parts of their arm. Instead of their bodies showing, there is a continuation of the patterns from the robe. Their hair colors differ, the higher women has blonde hair with a hair like accessory on top of her head. The women beneath her has long and wavy orange hair, kept behind her ears, also with a pink hair accessory at the back of her hair. The lower women has long brown hair and she has long hands. The robe merges in these three women at the bottom, almost as if they were part of the
The four women in …show more content…
All of the women’s heads are bent looking down, their eyes are closed and their hands are raised as if they were praying. The difference between the pregnant women and the women beneath her is that we cannot see their bodies, only their heads and some parts of their arm. Instead of their bodies showing, there is a continuation of the patterns from the robe. Their hair colors differ, the higher women has blonde hair with a hair like accessory on top of her head. The women beneath her has long and wavy orange hair, kept behind her ears, also with a pink hair accessory at the back of her hair. The lower women has long brown hair and she has long hands. The robe merges in these three women at the bottom, almost as if they were part of the