Social Studies Report / Their Eyes Were Watching God Exam:
Through my reading of the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, I can see many of the under developed, pre-mature stigmas about women that have matured to become highly viewed/considered beliefs of today. Such stigmas include the beliefs that women can't stand on their own, should be seen not taken seriously and that women are the possessions of the man the beside with. Of course, these views are belittling and wrong, but just as much are they popular. They existed then and still do, only now in a modern constructed way.Take the view, women can't stand on their own and require the assistance (protection) of a man to get by, for example. In the novel, this belief was held by the narrator's grandmother who instilled the concept that women by nature were incapable of supporting themselves into her. The narrator being of young age believed this to be true and in result it affected her judgment, well-being and life all around. In correlation with today, this view has survived and still lives in the hearts and minds of a lot of women. Just as it affected the narrator, it affects many women of today, everyday. Even with the many examples of independent, stro
Many other stigmas about women exist, what they are, what they should and should not do, what's not appropriate for a woman in opposition to man, etc. but from the ones I've uncovered, the ones I've discussed, it can be seen how times really haven't changed. Sure technology and life is more advanced, but what else has really changed? Many of yesterday's problems and views, as you see, still exist today. They are still practiced and passed on and its unfortunate. We talk of how far we've come and how advanced and civilized we are, yet when you look at really isn't that far. This brings us to our last stigma for discussion- the idea of a woman being a possession. In the novel, the narrator's third husband uses his "alledged" right by marriage to show who's boss and what's his by beating his wife. In the reading it says, he beat her to "justify his jealousy" and to "reassure his possession of her". She had done nothing wrong and wasn't her fault he was jealous, yet he beat her to justify his jealousy and reassure his possession of her. I believe this excerpt sheds a lot of light on the issue of domestic violence- a modern day crime and problem. Men get
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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