Woman rights and individuals’ views of women have changed throughout the years. In some ways woman rights and humans views of women, especially men, have stayed the same or change a little, but is talked less and hidden more in our society. In Nathaniel Hawthorne and in Ernest Hemingway works are perfect examples on how individuals back then, in their era, viewed women. Each one of the writers talks about the same topic/issues happening in their time, but in different set of directing interfering women.
Nathaniel Hawthorne work shows how men back then had power over the women in a relationship. How women listen and valued their spouses opinion no matter what, they did everything to please the male, they did not question the male individual …show more content…
Under Roman law, which influenced later European and American law, husband and wife were one, with the woman the possession of the man. As such, a woman had no legal control over her person, her own land and money, or her children” (Funk, Wagnalls). Now in 2017 women respect and valued their spouse opinion but they value more about their own opinion and morals than somebody else’s. Women do not feel obligated to do something if they do not want to do it. Georgina the female main characters in the short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth Mark” she makes the decision she did because she wanted to pleased her husband no matter if it risked her life. In the eighteen-century woman had to please her husband with no question asked. In certain centuries the woman had to be married to the partner her father or her parents choose for her, which is called arranged marriage “Cultures featuring arranged marriages as the societal norm believe that a person has a responsibility to parents and relatives, and they are obligated to marry the person that their loved …show more content…
They did not have many rights so woman did not have power or anyone to lean on except the male in their life. Women rights have changed where women now actually have the rights and are able to make decision on their own without being heale accountable. Women even now have power over their bodies. Women now have the option to have an abortion or a plastic surgery if they wanted one, before those options where non-existing. Abortion is a really controversy topic. Before the late 19th century, it was not legal to have an abortion “In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court held in Roev.Wade that the right of privacy protected a woman's right to end an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus has developed the capacity for viability outside the womb—usually construed as 24 weeks after conception” (Funk, Wagnalls). No one wanted to talk about abortion it was a sensitive topic and it still is to this day. A great example to this was one of Ernest Hemingway works, “Hills Like White Elephant.” The characters in this story wanted to make a decision to have an abortion but they were so afraid to actually say the word abortion. The couple avoided the topic of abortion as much as possible “ It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig, the man said. It's not really an operation at all” (Hemingway 786).The reader reading the short story “Hills Like White Elephant” by Hemingway had to make the connection that when the characters
Nathaniel Hawthorne work shows how men back then had power over the women in a relationship. How women listen and valued their spouses opinion no matter what, they did everything to please the male, they did not question the male individual …show more content…
Under Roman law, which influenced later European and American law, husband and wife were one, with the woman the possession of the man. As such, a woman had no legal control over her person, her own land and money, or her children” (Funk, Wagnalls). Now in 2017 women respect and valued their spouse opinion but they value more about their own opinion and morals than somebody else’s. Women do not feel obligated to do something if they do not want to do it. Georgina the female main characters in the short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Birth Mark” she makes the decision she did because she wanted to pleased her husband no matter if it risked her life. In the eighteen-century woman had to please her husband with no question asked. In certain centuries the woman had to be married to the partner her father or her parents choose for her, which is called arranged marriage “Cultures featuring arranged marriages as the societal norm believe that a person has a responsibility to parents and relatives, and they are obligated to marry the person that their loved …show more content…
They did not have many rights so woman did not have power or anyone to lean on except the male in their life. Women rights have changed where women now actually have the rights and are able to make decision on their own without being heale accountable. Women even now have power over their bodies. Women now have the option to have an abortion or a plastic surgery if they wanted one, before those options where non-existing. Abortion is a really controversy topic. Before the late 19th century, it was not legal to have an abortion “In 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court held in Roev.Wade that the right of privacy protected a woman's right to end an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus has developed the capacity for viability outside the womb—usually construed as 24 weeks after conception” (Funk, Wagnalls). No one wanted to talk about abortion it was a sensitive topic and it still is to this day. A great example to this was one of Ernest Hemingway works, “Hills Like White Elephant.” The characters in this story wanted to make a decision to have an abortion but they were so afraid to actually say the word abortion. The couple avoided the topic of abortion as much as possible “ It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig, the man said. It's not really an operation at all” (Hemingway 786).The reader reading the short story “Hills Like White Elephant” by Hemingway had to make the connection that when the characters