This shows how a woman's freedom diminished because she must always be available to serve her husband . She is made to feel as if putting herself first is a sin. The imbalance in power is shown "when she returned he beat her very heavily" (Achebe 25). The physical abuse is contributed to her disobedience. This represents the gender hierarchy within the text and represent the imbalance between males and females.
She also records the multifaceted trauma women had faced during the unsettling and devastating day of partition. Each women character represents a way of life. Lenny her mother, her godmother, Shanta the Ayah is the major female voice in the novel. Women once they fall prey to men’s violence like lenny’s Ayah, cannot hope for their restitution to their families. In every situation women has been become the target of exploitation it can be for the sake of family, honour, community and country also.
Similarly in Atwood’s novel, in spite of the fact that Gilead is a dystopian male controlled society, it is the female characters that discriminate their own gender. It is the Wives that knowingly accept that other women, the Handmaids, are treated as sexual and reproductive objects for their personal benefit of obtaining a child. Given that these have the highest social status a woman could achieve in Gilead, they do not intend to oppose the dystopian stipulated dogma. Similarly, another female group that is discriminated by the Wives are the Martha’s, who have the role of being commended domestic tasks given due to their infertility. At the same time, the Aunts, are another group of women who willingly accept the existent discrimination
For black women, however, the institution of slavery affected their psychological states, their marriages, and their family life. Slaves were frequently beaten, often without reason or cause. Their husbands were often sold to neighboring plantations, and female slaves were often terrorized by their male masters, ruining the sanctity of marriage amongst slave households (Brinkley 261). The children of female slaves were also often sold to other plantations, ripping apart the last remaining family that a female slave possessed (Northup, 12 Years a Slave). The constant auctioning of slaves and their children disturbed a female slaves ability to care for her children, and the sanctity of the family was ruined by the institution.
Both women and children are granted no voice, no bodily integrity, and no inherent worth by the adults who are their care takers. If they are lucky like Claudia and Frieda Macteer, they will learn resistance strategies. If they are unlucky like Pecola Breedlove, they will learn various kinds of disempowered response. The novel also shows not only the suffrage of the horrors of racial oppression, but also the tyranny and violation brought upon them by the men in their lives. The theme of male oppression over the women in the novel reaches its brutal climax during Cholly's rape of his own daughter Pecola.
However some female characters like Soraya the prostitute, eventually overrule their men counterparts and stand up for their own cause after periods of hardship and exploitation. Characters such as Melanie Isaacs, Lucy Lurie and Bev Shaw all illustrate vividly the bad image that is associated with females at this current point in society through their everyday experiences. J. M. Coetzee brilliantly expresses the hardship and the poor way women are represented through his literacy techniques and through the realism of the history of this
The Commander and his Wife have high social status and are the most blessed in this new society. They are given so much privileges, yet they still break rules. The Commander and his Wife hardly get affected by the new regime and its oppression towards everyone. Yet this oppression is the reason why they still break the rules. Serena is fed up with Offred being forced to have a child for her.
The Commander and his Wife have high social status and are the most blessed in this new society. They are given so much privileges, yet they still break rules. The Commander and his Wife hardly get affected by the new regime and its oppression towards everyone. Yet this oppression is the reason why they still break the rules. Serena is fed up with Offred being forced to have a child for her.
They have revolted against such patriarchy. Laxmibai Tilak described the mutinies of the women in and around her family at her natal house against her father. Her father represented caste patriarchy in Hinduism which monitored different caste practices followed by women, particularly, wives. His absence in the house
An Investigation of Battle for Survival in Mahasweta Devi's Rudali Presentation Mahasweta Devi was an Indian Bengali fiction author and a social dissident. Rudali is one of her most commended works. In the greater part of her works, Mahasweta Devi has attempted to handle and address the turbulances of rank, sex and class in the notable setting of the Brahmanic position patriarchy. Indeed, even in the wake of expecting a word related class status, the "rudalis" change themselves into a gendered position, particularly a low standing of 'prostitutes'. This could be recognized as focal strain or inconsistency in the social practices of Mahasweta's fiction and her account praxis.