The Cult Of True Womanhood Analysis

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There are 24 hours in every day, everyone can chose what they do with those 24 hours given to them. For example, one person might read a nice book by the fireplace while another could be coming up with a plan to make their country great again. Adolf Hitler quickly rose to power and spread his beliefs while using social media across Germany. He advocated the perfect human, what they looked like, and how the Jewish people were to blame for everything. Adolf stole the citizenship of every Jewish man, woman and child living in Germany and treated them as animals. Adolf used his power and marched into different countries and stole the land from leaders that was rightfully theirs (use hour video). War broke out which lead to men leaving and woman …show more content…
Within “The Cult of True Womanhood” she writes about women and their virtues and some of their virtues and expectations I do not fully agree with. Out of Piety, Purity, Submissiveness and Domesticity, being submissive to the man makes my blood boil the most. “Submission was perhaps the most feminine virtue expected of women” even though a woman should not be expected to be lower than everyone else (Welter 235). Every woman has the voice within her to speak for herself and should not be “in gentle submission” and should stand strong (Welter 337). Domesticity also makes me angry that men believed that women were only good at “making a bed” and they used “good exercise” as a way to make the reasoning sound good (Welter 236). I understand that Religion was very important to everyone during the 19th century so the expectations for being Religious was high. The virtue of Purity is one I struggled with to find an opinion because in the 21st century this virtue seems to still be held high. “Without [purity] she was, in fact, no woman at all, but a member of some lower order” and I completely disagree because if a woman was perhaps, raped, that was against her will and should not be held against her. She did not want that so even though she fought back she has become a part of some low society that does not even

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