In the novels discussed in class, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, and Kate Chopin, analyze the characteristics and critique the oppression of women through their works of literature. In stories like Woman Hollering Creek, My Antonia, and The Awakening, give us an image on the sufferings the oppressed women go through. They reveal an insight on the lives of the antagonized women through the disillusionment of love and marriage, prohibited desires, and restricted freedom.
Cleofilas, from Woman Hollering Creek, is one of the main examples of an oppressed woman in the literary works viewed. “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that loves sours.” (1131) we can see the complexity love carries bringing unimaginable pain into the lives of one that causes the disillusionment in what is believed to be true. Many times, women, like Cleofilas, are brought up with the morality that marriage is the main aspiration in life, and grow up with the expectation of a harmonious and loving marriage when, in fact, it could be the biggest …show more content…
Shimerda passed away in the winter, Antonia had to fill in for what was lost in her family to help support financially. So, Antonia started to work in farmlands with her brother, Ambrosch, and in other supplemental jobs. However, already was she being stigmatized for being a foreigner, but now she was being run down for her desire to help her family out. Subsequently it’s something that Antonia has comes to terms when Jim asks her “why aren’t you always nice like this?” whilst discussing her issue of laboring rather than learning “matronly duties” , as it was accustomed to for a girl, and she replies by saying “things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us.” (100) implying the issue between men and women equality. Above all, regardless of different periods of time, the society that surrounds us will always put limitations in a woman's desire to aspire for more in
Cleofilas, from Woman Hollering Creek, is one of the main examples of an oppressed woman in the literary works viewed. “How when a man and a woman love each other, sometimes that loves sours.” (1131) we can see the complexity love carries bringing unimaginable pain into the lives of one that causes the disillusionment in what is believed to be true. Many times, women, like Cleofilas, are brought up with the morality that marriage is the main aspiration in life, and grow up with the expectation of a harmonious and loving marriage when, in fact, it could be the biggest …show more content…
Shimerda passed away in the winter, Antonia had to fill in for what was lost in her family to help support financially. So, Antonia started to work in farmlands with her brother, Ambrosch, and in other supplemental jobs. However, already was she being stigmatized for being a foreigner, but now she was being run down for her desire to help her family out. Subsequently it’s something that Antonia has comes to terms when Jim asks her “why aren’t you always nice like this?” whilst discussing her issue of laboring rather than learning “matronly duties” , as it was accustomed to for a girl, and she replies by saying “things will be easy for you. But they will be hard for us.” (100) implying the issue between men and women equality. Above all, regardless of different periods of time, the society that surrounds us will always put limitations in a woman's desire to aspire for more in