All persons are unique. Behaviors, personality, attitude, background and life experience made each person to be different from another. However, sometimes people can be characterized by similar traits. This similarity does not made them to be the same. Langston Hughes, in “Cora Unashamed” and Zora in “Sweat” present two women, who lived in different places, and with different marital status, nonetheless experimented similar experiences. Cora presented by Langston, is an unmarried women and Delia presented by Zora is a married women. Their marital status could lead someone to think that their life were totally different, however, there are different similarity in the live made by Cora and Langston.
One important similarity we can find in the …show more content…
Sykes was an irresponsible husband, who did not take care of the family expenses. Consequently, Delia had to work hard to pay these expenses. “She was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things.”(Zora) In addition to her laundry job, she had all domestic works to do. Cora like Delia worked hard to support their family expenses and to assume the domestics works.
Another resemblance between Cora and Delia is the persecution they endured in their environment. The hard work made by Cora in her family house and in the Sturdivant’s house, where she was servant, was compensate by humiliation and contempt. She was considered like a dog by the Sturdivant family and was called nigger by the Melton people. (Langston) Cora endured all these oppressions and did not give up in her hard work.
Delia, like Cora, did not earn respect from her husband even if she worked hard for the wellness of her family. To show his disrespect, Sykes called her “nigger woman” and was beating her since two months of their conjugal life. (Zora) Delia submitted to all these persecution without resistance and continued to work hard for the wellbeing of her family. Both these women submitted to their oppression with a total
One important similarity we can find in the …show more content…
Sykes was an irresponsible husband, who did not take care of the family expenses. Consequently, Delia had to work hard to pay these expenses. “She was a wash-woman, and Monday morning meant a great deal to her. So she collected the soiled clothes on Saturday when she returned the clean things.”(Zora) In addition to her laundry job, she had all domestic works to do. Cora like Delia worked hard to support their family expenses and to assume the domestics works.
Another resemblance between Cora and Delia is the persecution they endured in their environment. The hard work made by Cora in her family house and in the Sturdivant’s house, where she was servant, was compensate by humiliation and contempt. She was considered like a dog by the Sturdivant family and was called nigger by the Melton people. (Langston) Cora endured all these oppressions and did not give up in her hard work.
Delia, like Cora, did not earn respect from her husband even if she worked hard for the wellness of her family. To show his disrespect, Sykes called her “nigger woman” and was beating her since two months of their conjugal life. (Zora) Delia submitted to all these persecution without resistance and continued to work hard for the wellbeing of her family. Both these women submitted to their oppression with a total