Feminist Lens In The Hunger Games

In Beloved, Morrison depicts the involuntary separation of a mom and baby via Sethe’s dating with her mom and her kinship with her daughter, Beloved. In Beloved, the mother is not depicted as wonderful, but she shows unconditional love for her kids, regularly in pretty a provocative way. Morrison’s authorship elucidates the conditions of motherhood displaying how black girls’s lifestyles is warped through severing conditions of slavery. In this novel, it turns into apparent how in a patriarchal society a lady can feel responsible whilst deciding on hobbies, profession and self-improvement earlier than motherhood.

Tan’s novel is meant to chronicle the experiences and stories of not just the individual women, but the group as a community. The way she masterfully weaves together the different voices, stories, and even the different language spoken across the different generations creates a larger image and story of the entire group of women. The way that Tan tells the stories of these women can seem to resemble that of a jigsaw puzzle. While each has their own, individual experiences and stories, they can also be arranged together. Not only are they individual pieces, but they can be fashioned and molded together so that they make up a larger image.

In China, under the strong impact of traditional minds, females are born to contributing herself to her family. They have no choose but to give up their further education and their habits. They can not do what they are interested in. Although this situation changes much better now, it still exists. The idea of feminism is that let women choose their own live freely.

The role they were groom to do at a very young age was to be the perfect wife and mother, learning proper manners and how to be submissive and meek. The roles that the women in the 21st century were playing are those of what morals their parents place in them, don’t let a man control you, you are your own woman and so on. The differences are that the women of yesterday were taught that because they are women they don’t do what men do and that they are the weaker sex even though women give birth, clean the house and take care of everyone. The women of today can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it because we have learned that men and women are the equal, that a woman can be a CEO and/or work in a male dominated trade skill that requires manual labor, long hours, and getting dirty. Thanks to all the women suffrages who fought for our right to do whatever we want; we can vote, sue, divorce, adopted, have abortions, and even drive

Housewife In her article "Motherhood/Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)", Terry Martin Hekker, a housewife who had been married to John Hekker, her husband, discusses the drawbacks of housewife as an occupation for women by sharing with the public her experience as a housewife in two different situations and centuries. The article aims to inform other women that depending on housewife as an occupation is really bad for their future. Hekker’s article is a good advice for today’s mothers as it is based on real experience. Hekker explains in her article that housewife is a good occupation, but there must be alternative jobs as it is not a permanent occupation.

She wistfully begins imagining a life as Mrs. Murchison where she “could be just like Ruth,” and do small jobs while her husband earns the majority of the income for the family. She asks George, “Do you believe that I could remain sane as a housewife?”, but this question is intended to be rhetorical. Bennie slowly returns to reality in her last line when she remembers that she’d be “wishing [she’d] pursued [her] dream,” and that she’d be looking into George’s “hungry eyes” day after day. This section of the monologue creates an argument for why the two are so incompatible, and shows Beneatha’s dependence on herself and her

In a scholarly online article, Gender Roles of Victorian Era for Men and Women, the author comments that, “a married woman was completely under the guidance and supervision of her husband. Motherhood was an achievement in the life of women, but only formally. Mothers had to be submissive and meek”. During the Victorian era, married women, such as Lady Bracknell, were under the supervision of their husband so all decisions were made from the husband, the wife would just have to follow. Married women still did not

Anne is so accustomed to having to be the perfect daughter and ‘trophy’ wife that she knows no different. Later in the novel, Anne becomes more aware of her parents disappointment saying to her friends 'You just don 't understand! The first thing Mummy looks at when I come home each term. How can she present a daughter with spots? Four daughters successfully married off and now the last one has to get spots.

Women have particular roles in which society expects them to carry-out without failing; she is expected to be an obedient wife, a caring mother and conscientious homemaker. Society has painted an image of the “ideal wife” through media, marketing, and norms in which she is restricted to her home and nurturing her family, and gaining the respect of the community. A hard-working housewife was supposed to have dinner ready by the time her husband returned from work, perform and agreed without question. Women were not allowed to go to school, or work, and most times were forced to stay at home causing the housewife role to be the only job

The Feminine Mystique (1963) examines the dehumanizing conditions of middle class American women who were excluded from social and political life to be anchored in their wifely and motherly roles. The book marks the Second Wave of American feminism. Friedan writes, “Their only dream was to be perfect wives and mothers” (61). This meant that the whole of an American woman’s life was meant to attract and keep her husband and serve his and children’s needs. She deals with this painful ordeal of women and clearly brings out the ennui, unhappiness, and the lack of companionship experienced by women in their marriages.