For centuries, being brought into the world as a woman has been a challenge. Women have been seen as weak, yielding, and human incubators for the next generation. Through the years, a rebellion began to occur, solidifying that the next generation of the fairer sex will prevail to bring upon a better social conduct for women around the world. The term for rebels such as these women is a feminist. The political term for the word feministic is “advocating social, political, legal, and economic right for women equal to those of men.”(Merriam Webster) Simone De Beauvoir is no stranger to this way of life. Born in 1908, she saw how the world was for her sex and became a self-taught philosopher for womankind after World War two. Her best known work
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In her exact words she summarizes, “It is quite conceivable that if other women fail to make a deep impression upon the world, it is because they are tied down in their situation.” (Beauvoir) She goes on to explain the details of how women helped during the revolution and the commune, but because they were women they did not get the credit that was due, and if a woman did not do anything then they were seen no differently. This was upsetting because she believes that during her lifetime, women should have been held at a higher expectation, effectivley making her a feminist of her time. To compare her views, Geoffrey Chaucer felt her pain and echoed the same thoughts when writing his Canterbury Tales and using certain characters to portray his thoughts. Chaucer was an anomaly to women when he was alive, Ken Longworth from the Newcastle Herald explains, “Feminism and the 14th century aren't usually mentioned in the same breath but there were male writers who supported women's rights.” (Longworth) Throughout all of the stories told by the characters it is clear that the characters want to be heard or want to confess these tales off of their chests. They could have very well saved these tales for their pilgrimage, but instead they spew the truth wielding words. The Wife of Bath comes to mind when Beauvoir is in the conversation. The Wife of Bath represents the expectation that women should be mere objects that have no wants or needs, much like that of Beauvoir and her need to be held higher as a woman. In other words, Beauvoir believed women should have higher expectations from the opposite
In her exact words she summarizes, “It is quite conceivable that if other women fail to make a deep impression upon the world, it is because they are tied down in their situation.” (Beauvoir) She goes on to explain the details of how women helped during the revolution and the commune, but because they were women they did not get the credit that was due, and if a woman did not do anything then they were seen no differently. This was upsetting because she believes that during her lifetime, women should have been held at a higher expectation, effectivley making her a feminist of her time. To compare her views, Geoffrey Chaucer felt her pain and echoed the same thoughts when writing his Canterbury Tales and using certain characters to portray his thoughts. Chaucer was an anomaly to women when he was alive, Ken Longworth from the Newcastle Herald explains, “Feminism and the 14th century aren't usually mentioned in the same breath but there were male writers who supported women's rights.” (Longworth) Throughout all of the stories told by the characters it is clear that the characters want to be heard or want to confess these tales off of their chests. They could have very well saved these tales for their pilgrimage, but instead they spew the truth wielding words. The Wife of Bath comes to mind when Beauvoir is in the conversation. The Wife of Bath represents the expectation that women should be mere objects that have no wants or needs, much like that of Beauvoir and her need to be held higher as a woman. In other words, Beauvoir believed women should have higher expectations from the opposite