BEYOND FREEDOM
Michelle Obama once said,
“Strong men, men who are truly role models, don’t need to put down women to
make themselves feel powerful”. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, it tells a
story with so much sorrow and foolishness caused by Antigone’s Uncle Creon. fantasy, exhibiting a moral or scholarly issue
which gives importance upon goals. In Antigone,
the story is provocative. Maybe one could demonstrate that Antigone's temper
shows signs of improvement, at the conclusion of the play. There was no room
for the women to give any opinion or tell her point of view to Creon. In the
play, A Street Car Named Desire by
Tennessee Williams, where Blanche DuBois comes all the way to her sister’s
house for the living.
The common traits of
these two dramas are gender inequality or even can be said as male dominance.
In both the plays, there is a character who shows his male power over the
female. For example, Creon from Antigone and Stanley from A Streetcar Named
Desire are two characters with the same mentality in the plays. In Antigone by
Sophocles Creon says “Go to the world below, yourself, if you must love. Love
them. When I am alive no women shall rule”
(lines 576 – 577) these lines
clearly state that Creon was against women and didn’t want women to get any
power in the society like men. This shows how cruel was Creon to the women. In
the play.
A
Streetcar Named Desire Stanley says, “now don’t get worried, your sister hasn’t
turned into a drunkard, she’s just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty”. Aside
from the incongruity in this line, it additionally conveys with it the
presupposition that liquor abuse in a lady is a thing to be embarrassed about,
and for which pardons should be made. This fundamental importance isn't found
inside male characters who are displayed as an alcoholic. Truth be told usually
depicted as a normal event, for their sexual orientation, however not so for
ladies. It is through Blanche's very own stressing of the generalization,
concerning her drinking, that this sexual orientation understanding is spoken
to. Because of this advanced education, it is justifiable that she can affirm
power and predominance over others by utilizing sufficiently refined language.
In scene ten, when Blanche is minimized inside and out, one of the primary
things that Stanley does to expect control, is put a conclusion to her long
discourses and silenced her language at an exhausted "Goodness!".
This represents the understanding that inside society contemporary to the play’s
discharge, ladies who challenged the generalization would be constrained into
congruity, by a purposeful assault on the zone of their identity through which
they had picked up this extreme power. The connection between Blanche and
Stanley, finishing with Blanche's absolute downfall because of assault, is the
discussion through which Tennessee Williams speaks to this reality. The writer
investigates both male and female generalizations just as society’s response to
the individuals who challenge these biases, or to be sure misguided judgments
all things considered. By speaking to these facts to the majority which sees
this striking play, Tennessee Williams suggests a conversation starter to
society, with respect to regardless of whether these portrayals are precise. So,
these two examples clearly show how the women were affected and suppressed by
men in the stories.
When we compare
to the present world, there are still gender inequalities in many countries like
India, China, Afghanistan, etc. Where the women still don’t have their own
rights to access many needs. The absolute strictest understandings of Sharia
law are rehearsed in Saudi Arabia, authorized by the country's religious police
drive. Ladies are viewed as minors under male gatekeepers known as 'mahram,'
whom they are not allowed to leave home without, regardless of whether it be to
go out on the town to shop or to a physical checkup. A noteworthy decision in
2015 conceded Saudi ladies the privilege to vote in favor of the first run through.
Most open spaces are isolated. Female investment in the work drive drifts
around 30 percent, yet a generous increment could add $700 billion to the
national economy and increment GDP by 1.3 percent by 2025, the report says.
Male youngsters frequently get particular treatment and it isn't unprecedented
for pregnancies to be prematurely ended once it is resolved the sex is female,
making a youthful populace that is lopsidedly male. The male domination was
there for decades and decades which was a practice from our ancestors. There was a time wherein the late 1960s my Girls were forged to get married at the age of
12 where they didn’t have any other choice except getting married and there are
even some rules for the women in the country where they have to eat after all
the men from the family are done eating. So, all these shows how women are
still affected by gender discrimination. The women those days were not allowed
to study after their 12th grade because they were forced to get married after
that, but in the present generation, it’s not the same women get the equal
rights like men do. Even the women don’t get equal access in the Representation
in Government but there is growing evidence that women in positions of
leadership and political decision-making improve the systems in which they work.
These examples are just a few of the inequalities our women facing but there
are much more than its mentioned above.
Gender is just the way you see. We all were created by the same
creator so there’s shouldn’t be any discrimination between the men and women.
These discriminations against women just don’t make any sense for the upcoming
generations. In the 19th and 20th centuries the world was
run that way, but now it is totally changed. There must be equal opportunities
to women like the men out there. I would like to highlight a quote “Gender
Equality is a human fight, not a female fight” – Freda Pinto, this quote really
tells a lot to the world how the women are still fighting for gender
equality without any male support. If there was male support the gender
equality would have been achieved by the women years ago. So the only way to
achieve this by joining all our hands together and fight against the barriers
who doesn’t want this.
Word citation:
·
Antigone by Sophocles
·
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee
Williams
·
On Gender, labor, and inequality by
Milkman, Ruth,
·
The persistence of gender equality by Mary
Evans
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