From years before woman have been faced with being seen as passovers, inferior to men, and weaker than men. It was particularly seen as traditions in countries, such as, China and India, where men were able to have multiple wives, while having the actual paying jobs and leaving housework and sexual pleasure to the women. This is well portrayed in The Tale of Genji and The Waking of Angantyr from The Poetic Edda, the role of women was minimized aside the power of men by questioning women being independent and strong. However, just as the role of women were portrayed in the two texts, it was challenged when gender roles were switched.
In The Waking of Angantyr, we have a scenario where a young girl named Hervor, daughter of Angantyr who is determined to visit her father’s mound alone no matter what it took. On …show more content…
Her father soon said, “Young girl, I declare you are not like most men”, which was his way of saying it’s not like it for a girl to be by the dangerous mounds and talking to the dead (p.271). However, she considered herself “man enough” because she had the willpower, she wasn’t forced to go amongst the dead but when you have a urge to do something you find all the ways to do so, regardless of gender.
In correlation to the switch of gender roles from The Waking of Angantyr, there is a indirect switch of gender roles in The Tale of Genji. The two switches on gender roles connect because they showed that strength nor bravery depends on the gender but just the person. Since, it was really hard to get people to believe that at the time, the authors of these two text create stories that portray women as brawny, as well as independent. Independence comes in with The Tale of Genji.
Genji was a prince who had a very complicated history with women, where the
In The Waking of Angantyr, we have a scenario where a young girl named Hervor, daughter of Angantyr who is determined to visit her father’s mound alone no matter what it took. On …show more content…
Her father soon said, “Young girl, I declare you are not like most men”, which was his way of saying it’s not like it for a girl to be by the dangerous mounds and talking to the dead (p.271). However, she considered herself “man enough” because she had the willpower, she wasn’t forced to go amongst the dead but when you have a urge to do something you find all the ways to do so, regardless of gender.
In correlation to the switch of gender roles from The Waking of Angantyr, there is a indirect switch of gender roles in The Tale of Genji. The two switches on gender roles connect because they showed that strength nor bravery depends on the gender but just the person. Since, it was really hard to get people to believe that at the time, the authors of these two text create stories that portray women as brawny, as well as independent. Independence comes in with The Tale of Genji.
Genji was a prince who had a very complicated history with women, where the