Women's Rights
Women's Rights
There are many stories based on women's rights and their roles in the world showing how people thought they should behave, reminding us that women should be treated equally.
On Women's Rights to Vote
"And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our prosperity, but to the whole people - women as well as men."
Antigone
"We are only women, We cannot fight men, Antigone!"
The Yellow Wallpaper
"I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition."
In the speech, On Women's Rights to Vote Susan B. Anthony is saying women are just as much as a person as men and should't be treated any differently. In the story Antigone Ismene says this because she believes that them being women conflicts with the fact they cant stand up to the king. In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator believes everything he husband tells her is true and that the man is always right, which is why she believes she has a illness. These examples state reasons why the women can't do things showing that everyone should be treated equally and have just the same amount of rights.
The Story of an Hour
"There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself."
On Women's Rights to Vote
"For any state to make sex a qualification that must ever result in the disfranchisement of one entire half of the people, is to pass a bill of attainder, or, an ex post facto law, and is therefore a violation of the supreme law of the land."
Antigone
"But this is Antigone! Why have you brought her here?"
In The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard says this because she no longer has to do what her husband says and she can do what she wants. In On Women's Rights to Vote Sarah B. Anthony is saying that not allowing women to have rights is wrong and for any one to do that is in violation of the supreme law of the land. In Antigone Creon says this because he is so shocked a women would ever do this considering women aren't suppose to express their opinions. These quotes found from the story show the perspective of the women and why everyone should have equality in both men and women.
The Yellow Wallpaper
"There comes John, and I must put this away,- he hates to have me write a word."
The Story of an Hour
"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."
The Yellow Wallpaper
"He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get."
In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator says this because the husband has control over the woman and gets to decide what she can and cannot due. In The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard says this because she will no longer have to be controlled by her husband and has her own free will. In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator says this because it was the husbands decision to put her away in the house and he has complete control over what she does. These examples show how the men in their lives controlled them and let them have no freedom.
bibliography
Anthony, Susan. On Women's Right to Vote. Washington DC, 1873. Address
bibliography
Chopin, Kate. "The Story of an Hour." Kate Chopin: Complete Novels and Stories. Edited by Sandra Gilbert. New York: Library of America, 2002.
bibliography
Gilman, Charlotte. "The Yellow Wallpaper." Project Gutenberg, 5 Nov. 2012. Web. 2 Feb. 2012.
bibliography
Sophocles. "Antigone." F. Store. Cambridge Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1912. Web.