Fritz Oehlschlaegar's The Lottery

Men want to keep the roles of women worthless to make themselves seem superior and be dominant. Edwin O. Reischauer explains the relationship between Japanese men and women — “In Western eyes, husbands frequently treat their wives coldly and even with disdain.” (Reischauer, 175) Men mistreated women and considered them inferior since they did not have same dominance as men [the way society viewed women/girls] and were scornful of women in the household. The role of Japanese women was hard with being a daughter, wife, and mother.

Men also assumed women were not smart enough to work in government. Men brainwashed women into thinking that they were not eligible (smart enough) to work in government. They feared that women politicians would make make a bias vote against all the men to vote them out. They feared that women’s votes

The older generation of the public, especially older men, may despise her because they are chauvinistic and do not think women should have power. For example, the older generations may be narrow minded and think less of the opposite sex. This may be because in their youth, men would be expected to make important decisions, such as voting and take charge in situations needing leadership or guidance i.e sole bread winner. This could have a negative impact due to some members of society not supporting her

The relationships between men and women during perestroika offers little as far as progression of women’s role in society. “Since perestroika, Russian women have been subject to a ‘backlash’, largely from male politicians and journalists, against the alleged ‘over-emancipation’ of women by the Soviet state” (Marsh). The absence of really positive male characters in these works allows for real women struggles to be taken seriously and without much judgement and emphasizes the importance of the mother and daughter relationship as well as the women struggle during

It was thought to be improper to see a woman give birth. “Childbirth was one area of life that was distinctly female; men...generally excluded from the birthing chamber” (Married Life). Although this allows for many sexist ideas to be shared, it also allows for the beautiful relationships between women to be created. Women had to stick together in a world run by men. They became a strong, quiet network of friends and families that wove their way through hard times and

The woman refuses to shave off her mustache although it is neatly groomed, although she followed orders they still won’t

(2.1.245-249) Here, Helena is pointing out that although it isn’t socially acceptable for women when it comes to love, she really doesn’t care. By doing this, Helena reveals the double standard when it comes to men and women. She also raises an interesting question. Why is it OK for women to “fight for love”, but it isn’t OK for women to do the same?

For the reason that men are on the top of the food chain looking for “good girls” because their opposites, the “bad girls” are “not good enough to bear a man’s name or his legitimate children. That role is appropriate only for a properly submissive “good girl” (Tyson 90). So, while the girl is asked not to indulge in the “fun”, the boundary lines between the masculine and feminine gender are laid out when describing such “fun”, which holds a different meaning for each gender. Tyson asserts that “patriarchal ideology works to keep women and men in traditional gender roles and thereby maintain male dominance” (97). Maybe not the mingling of genders, but instead the mingling of activities they indulge in would help blurring the well-defined lines separating what is defined as masculine, and what is defined as

Being a 19th century woman, Nora Helmer was at a disadvantage since work outside the home and education was not acceptable, unless they were a widow or single. One reason for this lack of education was for the sole purpose of dominance, as stated by author Ramona Mihăilă, “women consider that their intellectual inferiority is generated by their deficient in education, and they accuse both the society and men for keeping them in ignorance, in order to dominate them better” (657). Hence, women were to be attractive, delicate creatures submissive to their husbands and caretakers of the children. Remarkably, N. I. Trofin condemned men for not allowing the women to receive education that in turn could lead to moral corruption in the pursuit of money.

So, the women decided to keep the evidence to themselves because even they knew the men wouldn 't be able to see it the way they do. The men would think their theory on Mrs. Wright is absurd and surely put her behind bars. It seems to be that gender roles and being loyal to your own sex is a key part to the play. These roles are so important that being loyal to your own sex could be classified as an actual theme to the play. This is shown when all the women

One obstacle is gender equality, the ranch is a “male-dominant” society where women are seen as untrustworthy. The fact that Curly’s wife is the bosses wife is the true cause of her alienation. However, the simple fact that she is a female separates her from interactions with others as seen when the men refer to her as having “the eye” (28). Here the men refer to everything they think women are – a distraction and temptation for men, instead of actual human beings. Candy is also oppressed in a social inequality as he is afraid that when he is too old to work, he will be thrown out of the “ash heap”, a victim of a society that discriminates against the disabled and has no value for age or experience.

In The Making of the West it states, “Its leadership argued that despite men’s promises to protect women in exchange for their inequality, the system of male chivalry had led to exploitation and abuse” (Hunt, 780). The men that were in charge were doing nothing to help the women. The women in the working class were especially bothered by not having suffrage and not having equal rights. Helena Swanwick, a German journalist, wrote The War in Its Effect Upon Women. In her book, she advocated equality in suffrage, social, economic, and political status for women (Sourcebook, 408).

Misogyny remains a key feature in Mailer’s writings with the Naked and the dead being no exception, portraying women as little more than sexual objects to fulfil male desire, being placed at the bottom of gender structure. It was not uncommon for men to mistrust their wives while they were away fighting and Mailer presents this fear the men maintain through Brown as he explains what his actions would be if he found out his wife had been cheating on him, claiming to beat her and throw he out, viewing women as sexual objects which are disposable and yet it is the fear that the males possess of this occurring which leads them to respond like this, women maintain an unusual sense of power within a largely patriarchal society. Later, in the Chorus

However, in reality not every marriage is a functional one. Society plays a huge role on the repression that enforce in marriage. Individuals are more accepting of marriage now and understand that every person does not necessarily want to marry but unhappy and feel trapped. Perhaps the in the "The Story of an Hour" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" the husbands might of love their wives and the feeling might of being mutual, but since it all took place in a different time period where society harshly criticizes women for not being married or for leaving the marriage they were in. Both women in the stories directly have a problem with the institution of marriage and feel like society is the one in charge of trapping women into marriage.

The Lottery Analytical Essay In this short story, written by Shirley Jackson, the townspeople have somewhat of violent “tradition”. The people participate in this process called stoning where someone is randomly beaten to death by stones. Shirley doesn't specifically say why they do this or why it is still happening but she does drop hints.