While listening and observing our class's summer reading presentations, I have noticed that most of them revolve around women before they were given rights. They were known as nothing more than sex objects, baby making machines, and a house wife. In class we made a connection about "The Scarlet Letter" with the color red. Ms. Whitley explained to us how the color "red" was (or still is) represented as passion, lust, ect. So for all the women in the book "Handsmaid Tale" you're able to do a lot of comparing with the main character from "The Scarlet Letter" and start to actually understand "WHAT" the women's purpose really is for wearing the color red. Also, in "Memoirs of a Geisha" men were VERY Superstitious about females being in their boats because they thought it would be bad luck. One of the fishermen went as far as beating his daughter for playing in his boat and took it to some priest to get it cleansed. We have come along way... Well that's what most say. If you actually look outside of the lies and look beyond the truth you will be able to see that "WE" as women are STILL fighting for our rights. The sad thing is... It's in our face everyday and all the time we just don't notice it anymore.
Women these days...
I think this was a really great connection that i didnt make myself. In each book there are indeed women who dont have rights becasue of the time of the setting. For example, in my book The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Griet and the other women in the house didn't really speak to Vermeer because he was the man of the house, the person who made the money. However, the womens roles in the book were to have the baby (his wife), cook and clean(maids).
ReplyDeleteWow Ayannah what a great connection! I completely agree with you. Unfortunately the society we live in to still holds on to some of the attributes from the past especially when it comes to women. Which is why it is really important for the female race to stick together rather than tear each other down
ReplyDeleteI really like how you connected the struggles women faced in our summer readings with the struggles the women faced in our last year reading.
ReplyDeleteThis was a great connection Ayanna I connected this with the summer reading book I read memoirs of a geisha
ReplyDeleteI remember reading MOAG and being so upset about that superstition. I think you made good connections. I think that the English department picks these books because they are books with strong female characters and that relates to feminism - which is preached at SVA.
ReplyDeleteAs a young women i was touched by the presentation of the books we read this summer because majority of the books talked about women getting treated un fairly because they were women . It made me realize today in the modern world women are still getting treated a certain way . I hope that things will change in our society but we can agree their has ben some changes
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