Should the only roles women have be to cook for their husbands, keep the house clean, and take care of their children? During the 1950’s, women were believed to be highly inferior to men. In the 1950’s that was mainly the only role women had, to be a stay-at-hom mom. In The Crucible, women did just the same, they were expected to keep everything in the house nice and well kept for their husband. In the play, women were presented in a negative way; women were also portrayed negatively during the 1950’s. In both, the 1950’s and The Crucible, women were to stay at home while their husbands went out to work each day, whether it was in the workforce or taking care of their farm. In both, the 1950’s and in The Crucible, women were perceived as housewives.
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This dissatisfaction contributed to the rebirth of the feminist movement”(history). Women wanted to go to college and enter the workforce for themselves, not in place for a man. They wanted to get to choose what they would do in their own lives rather than stick with what society expected women to do. A woman wanted to be able to rely on herself instead of relying on her husband for everything. Women wanted to have equal rights in the gender roles of …show more content…
“Why’d you let her? You heard me forbid her go to Salem any more!”(Crucible Act 2, 50). The woman would not be allowed to leave the house without having the man’s permission. Mary was the Proctor’s servant; she was supposed to be at the house cleaning, but instead she was at court. That was something Mary wanted to do in her life, but she was controlled by a man, John Proctor, and she was punished for doing what she wanted. During the play, Abigail Williams realizes how badly women are treated, especially after John Proctor used Abigail for her body while he has a wife. Abigail says “I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!”(Crucible Act 1, 21). In this play a man’s attitude towards a woman was that all she was good for being her body and her housework. When John Proctor is on the court, he states his attitude towards women. “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it”(Crucible Act 3, 106). It shows how he took advantage of Abigail and how he lusted for her even though he was a married man.
In both the 1950’s and in The Crucible women were perceived as housewives. A woman was not supposed to do any more, but work at their home. In The
This dissatisfaction contributed to the rebirth of the feminist movement”(history). Women wanted to go to college and enter the workforce for themselves, not in place for a man. They wanted to get to choose what they would do in their own lives rather than stick with what society expected women to do. A woman wanted to be able to rely on herself instead of relying on her husband for everything. Women wanted to have equal rights in the gender roles of …show more content…
“Why’d you let her? You heard me forbid her go to Salem any more!”(Crucible Act 2, 50). The woman would not be allowed to leave the house without having the man’s permission. Mary was the Proctor’s servant; she was supposed to be at the house cleaning, but instead she was at court. That was something Mary wanted to do in her life, but she was controlled by a man, John Proctor, and she was punished for doing what she wanted. During the play, Abigail Williams realizes how badly women are treated, especially after John Proctor used Abigail for her body while he has a wife. Abigail says “I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!”(Crucible Act 1, 21). In this play a man’s attitude towards a woman was that all she was good for being her body and her housework. When John Proctor is on the court, he states his attitude towards women. “She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance, and you must see it”(Crucible Act 3, 106). It shows how he took advantage of Abigail and how he lusted for her even though he was a married man.
In both the 1950’s and in The Crucible women were perceived as housewives. A woman was not supposed to do any more, but work at their home. In The