Womens Rights
Women's Rights
Throughout history women have not received equal rights to men resulting in a lop sided societal scale leaning toward men, thus allowing even the average Joe to be presented with more freedoms than the highly educated female.
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
So what I hope for you is that you live there not as prisoners, ashamed of being women, consenting captives of a psychopathic social system, but as natives.
A Story of An Hour
She did not hear the story as many women did, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.
Antigone
Our own death would be if we should go against Creon and do what he has forbidden! We are only women, we cannot fight with men, Antigone!
Commentary #1
These quotes show that women in the past were used to being oppressed by men. Some tried to change it and others wished it would stay the same.
A Left Handed Commencement Address
I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over people.
The Story of An Hour
There would be no one to live for in those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.
Antigone
If that is what you think, I should not want you, even if you asked to come. You have made your choice, you can be what you want to be.
Commentary #2
This shows how some women wished were able to be on their own, free to do whatever they pleased without a man.
A Left Handed Commencement Address
Women as women are largely excluded from, alien to, the self-declared male norms of society, where human beings are called Man, the only respectable god is male, the only direction is up.
The Story of An Hour
But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.
Antigone
This girl is guilty of double insolence, breaking the given law and boasting of it. Who is the man here, she or I, if this crime goes unpunished?
Commentary #3
This shows that women through the years have been stomped on by men for trivial matters, because the man simply was unhappy if something did not go according to his plans.
Bibliographies
Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour." Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories. Edited by
Sandra Gilbert. New York: Library of America, 2002.
Gilman, Charlotte. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Project Gutenburg, 5 Nov. 2012, web. 2 Feb. 2012
Guinn, Ursula. "A Left Handed Commencement Address." Mills College, Oakland, CA. Commencement Address.
Sophecles. "Antigone." F. Storr. Cambridge Massachusetts:
Harvard University, 1912. Web.
Biography
Travis Wiedenfeld. wiedenfeldt11289-17@nederland.k12.tx.us