Should I Really Stick it to The Man? Draft
In 1943, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed under the nazi Germany regime. Their crime; treason for being part of the non-violent resistance group against Hitler’s dictatorship, the White Rose, and for distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. The nazi’s authority between the years 1933 to 1945 was nearly absolute and their leadership ultimately lead to their downfall. However, people can be ignorant on what their authoritative figures are doing to them or believe what they are doing isn’t really bad, sometimes it can be better. My position on the matter of whether it is wrong to obey authority is that authority can potentially be good or bad depending on the people …show more content…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story in the perspective of a woman whose mental health spirals out of control after her physician husband, as a form of treating her “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency”, confines her alone in their rented summer home until she gets better. Afterall, “if a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives do that there is really nothing the matter...what is one to do?”. Gilman’s story brings up the topic on how the standards of women during this period put a large amount of physical and mental strain on the women which ultimately lead to severe depression and sometimes death. A major standard is also show, being between the husband and wife, were the husbands of this period have a lot of control over their wives and were women will be looked down upon, by both men and women, for going against this standard. Even today there are certain standards for women and men on how they act and what they want to do in the future. Interestingly, these standards actually led to the development of women being able to get more rights that were previously denied to them in the past. It should be mentioned on how we wouldn’t have voting for women or even a gender equality movement without a past authority’s influence. But won’t it be difficult for an idea to surface by people from their abstracted knowledge caused by the
In 1943, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed under the nazi Germany regime. Their crime; treason for being part of the non-violent resistance group against Hitler’s dictatorship, the White Rose, and for distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich. The nazi’s authority between the years 1933 to 1945 was nearly absolute and their leadership ultimately lead to their downfall. However, people can be ignorant on what their authoritative figures are doing to them or believe what they are doing isn’t really bad, sometimes it can be better. My position on the matter of whether it is wrong to obey authority is that authority can potentially be good or bad depending on the people …show more content…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a story in the perspective of a woman whose mental health spirals out of control after her physician husband, as a form of treating her “temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency”, confines her alone in their rented summer home until she gets better. Afterall, “if a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives do that there is really nothing the matter...what is one to do?”. Gilman’s story brings up the topic on how the standards of women during this period put a large amount of physical and mental strain on the women which ultimately lead to severe depression and sometimes death. A major standard is also show, being between the husband and wife, were the husbands of this period have a lot of control over their wives and were women will be looked down upon, by both men and women, for going against this standard. Even today there are certain standards for women and men on how they act and what they want to do in the future. Interestingly, these standards actually led to the development of women being able to get more rights that were previously denied to them in the past. It should be mentioned on how we wouldn’t have voting for women or even a gender equality movement without a past authority’s influence. But won’t it be difficult for an idea to surface by people from their abstracted knowledge caused by the