Summary Of Professions For Women By Kurt Vonnegut

The Consequences of Society’s Views
Kurt Vonnegut has written a collective amount of small essays and in one of them he speaks of going into the arts. He draws the reader in by his blunt honesty and compassion, showing a great deal of ethos and pathos in the process. Kurt tells of the success to be found within the creative process and the benefits to reaped from it. Virginia Woolf in “Professions for Women” reiterates this theme of success in her speech to others, particularly women. Her use of rhetorical appeals and situations reach out to others much in the same regard. The uses of the rhetorical appeals are used predominantly in the excerpt of Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country and targets the audience in a very specific way. Woolfe’s …show more content…
He admits that “arts are not a way to make a living” therein showing that financial success would not be found in that career field. This displays a large amount of ethos into Vonnegut’s character as an author; he admits that money will most likely not come easily to those who go into the art field. Due to his honest statement, one would be inclined to see him in a better light then previously before. The art world is not known for giving much money to those in it. Society often has dubbed those who go into the field as “starving artists”. Woolf in her speech of “Professions of Women” comments that many believe the true profession of women would be to take care of the family, cook dinner, and if anything else keep a secretarial job. Woolf used logos as a way to compare careers of women to those of men. Women in were seen by society as delicate and breakable much like any artist is seen as starving in society. Both of these false stereotypes are still being fought to this day. Vonnegut discussed this artistic stereotype and spoke of the reward that could be given as an artist as …show more content…
He openly talked about not finding economic success but spoke of a different kind to be found. He said to “practice an art, no matter how well or badly.” Vonnegut generally wanted his audience to not leave behind the arts because simply because one would not find monetary success as a result of this he wrote simply as one would write to friend. His essay was open, friendly yet firm. He urged the reader to grow themselves and reap the benefits that the arts could bring one. Even though society viewed the arts as an unstable world to work in he urged readers to at the very least try it on their own. Woolf urged her readers to no longer attempt to fit into the category society was putting them in and to learn their own creative fields. She often stated that money was not the problem, only overcoming the obstacles society put upon her was. In her speech she used logos to show women how vastly different the careers were form men to women. Both of these works spoke of the issues society had placed upon them as well the consequences of these