Women around the world have suffered from different types control from men that contribute to the suffrage of women. From Sexism to misogyny that women encounter, the opposite sex has demeaned females to a life of submission and servitude. Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude and Rosario Ferré’s The Youngest Doll both expose men’s authority over women. These two authors two different approaches to characterizing male domination of females. Both García and Ferré presented compelling and controversial ways to depict the culture of the dominion that men have over women in their works, specifically with the characters Úrsula and the youngest niece respectively. The women in the literature have to carry the weight of the men and also
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She was too naïve and too in love to see the real man the doctor was and the façade that he displayed to her. She was out of her lead both economically and social caste-wise, she was a true catch. Ferré described him with great ambition and hungry for riches and social recognition when she revealed that, “He would always show up for the visit wearing a pair of brightly polished shoes, a starched collar, and an ostentatious tiepin of extravagant poor taste” (5). This shows that by courting with the youngest niece was the young doctor’s chance to the aunt’s family fortune. The fact that the young doctor kept up the charade that his father had concocted and the conducted malpractice for twenty-plus years is an outrage. It is also a clear sign that the young doctor’s malevolent plan to take advantage of the young niece. Everyday he made his wife to sit out on the balcony, so that passerby would be sure to see that he had married into society” (5). This conveys that the dominance that the young doctor had over the young niece was established once married and she served as a trophy wife to him. The youngest niece was raised in a more elevated environment, where lady–like manners are enforced but still being obedient to one’s husband is norm. Even high society folk, especially women are in a quagmire when it comes to gender roles and constrictions imposed by
She was too naïve and too in love to see the real man the doctor was and the façade that he displayed to her. She was out of her lead both economically and social caste-wise, she was a true catch. Ferré described him with great ambition and hungry for riches and social recognition when she revealed that, “He would always show up for the visit wearing a pair of brightly polished shoes, a starched collar, and an ostentatious tiepin of extravagant poor taste” (5). This shows that by courting with the youngest niece was the young doctor’s chance to the aunt’s family fortune. The fact that the young doctor kept up the charade that his father had concocted and the conducted malpractice for twenty-plus years is an outrage. It is also a clear sign that the young doctor’s malevolent plan to take advantage of the young niece. Everyday he made his wife to sit out on the balcony, so that passerby would be sure to see that he had married into society” (5). This conveys that the dominance that the young doctor had over the young niece was established once married and she served as a trophy wife to him. The youngest niece was raised in a more elevated environment, where lady–like manners are enforced but still being obedient to one’s husband is norm. Even high society folk, especially women are in a quagmire when it comes to gender roles and constrictions imposed by