Mary Maloney: Are Women Frail And Complex Creatures?

Are women frail and complex creatures?
‘Frailty, the name is women!’. Historically, women are stereotyped by this community as the weaker sex. This is because people believe that God had assigned strength and authority to males, underlining that womankind are weak and frail in character. Besides, the emergence of the feminist who claims to stand for women’s empowerment and gender equality clearly denoted that women are weaker creatures. Notwithstanding, based on the story “Lamb to the Slaughter” written by Roald Dahl, Mary Maloney, a typical housewife murders her husband and creates a false impression to the polices to get rids of the suspicious. In addition, women’s ability can be seen in the story “The Way Up to Heaven” also written by the same author, Roald Dahl. In …show more content…
Since majority women are physically weaker than men, some of them have high level of emotional intelligence in reducing the risk of being hurt or abused by men. In the story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, when Mary Maloney’s husband want to divorce her, her first instinct is not to believe any of it, rejecting it all, and act as though she hadn’t been listened. After a while, she still manages to make some suppers for her husband. Whereas, in “The Way Up to Heaven”, when Mr Foster inform Mrs Foster that she should drop him off at the club, in comprehending her husband is a dominant character, although Mrs Foster knows that the club is downtown, the opposite way to the airport, she still agrees to drop her husband at the club to minimize controversy. This shows that both women are very high emotional intelligence as they can think rationally and are good in communication in order to protect themselves from predicament as they know that they are physically weaker than men. In conclude, as women are emotional creatures, they are more complex than