Women are powerful and they can do anything, just like any other man. In analyzing the three prompts, Raven’s Song, The Progress of 50 Years, and A Widow’s Burden, they all symbolize different yet similar things, as well as themes that differ and relate to each other. Additionally, these themes shape the meaning of the passages and explain how women can change the world and they deserve equal rights.. The three passages, Raven’s Song, The Progress of 50 Years, and A Widow’s Burden, have three themes that can be compared and contrasted: power, color, and suffering.
To start off, power plays a colossal role in the three prompts. In The Progress of 50 Years, it states that bounteous rights were taken away from women, such as when a married woman earns a dollar, the husband has a right to take away that dollar. In A Widow’s Burden, it states how a woman that is a widow could have about two-thirds of her stuff taken away from her by her stepson. These prompts represent how women have less power than men, however, The Progress of 50 Years states how women have more rights today, while A Widow’s Burden states nothing of the sort. On the other hand, in Raven’s Song, Raven society did not acquiesce music to be played or made. However, she decided to take …show more content…
To begin, the two texts, The Progress of 50 Years and A Widow’s Burden, have an analogous suffrage, such as women having almost no rights compared to men. However, the two passages have different examples of the women’s suffrages. To add, in Raven’s Song, the girl suffers from not being allowed to make or play music, and one may know that she suffers from it because it is blatant that she loves her grandfather’s music by the way they describe the setting and the feeling. These three passages all have bad suffrage in them, but the people suffer in different ways. Suffrage plays a big part in comparing and contrasting the