Essay On Women's Rights In The Crucible

Women's Rights has been a Global issue that has greatly affected and limited what women can and cannot do. In many places all over the world, people are trying to achieve equal rights for men and women. The Equal Rights Amendment is a set of rights allowing women the same access as men to certain privileges. Though the movement to Women's rights is still going on, many people are finding ways to prevent Women from achieving equal rights as others. In The Crucible we see that Arthur Miller seems to show that women are inferior to men which relates to the contemporary issue of the Movement to women’s rights. While The Crucible explores the need to oppress in human nature, the issue of Woman’s Rights in contemporary society illustrates we are

still faced with this oppression in the U.S., Middle East, and Asia.
In the play The Crucible women's rights played a role in the town of Salem.

Since the play took place in the late 1600s, women were still struggling for their rights. During the 1600s a woman's job was to take care of the household and the kids. In the play women were portrayed to be weaker than men because they allowed the men to control them. In Act 2 of The Crucible Proctor says “How do you go to Salem when I forbid it? Do you mock me? I’ll Whip you if you dare leave this house again!” (Act 2, lines 185-187). In this quote you can tell that after Mary Warren, the maid of the Proctor’s, said she went to Salem because she was a court official, then she got yelled at because she was forbid from going there. If you didn’t listen to what you were told, you were at risk for being whipped by the person whom you are a servant or maid for. The women who were shown in this play, other than Abigail, were made to appear not as powerful as the

men.
The Movement towards Women’s Rights in the U.S. has been going on since 1848 and is still happening. Although the U.S. has achieved many accomplishments, such as women’s rights to vote, there are still many things unequal between men and women. For example, the wages given to men and women is different even if they have the same job and work the same amount of hours. “In September 2015, the US Census Bureau released its findings that women working full time made 78.6 percent as much as men did in 2014” (Quezzaire and Finley). This quote shows that although men and women are working at the same job and work the same amount of hours that they are being paid less money. Even though women are working just as hard as men they are receiving unfair treatment. The U.S is not the only country who is suffer to achieve women's rights for women, The Middle East even further away from achieving equal rights for men and women.
The movement towards Women’s Rights in the Middle East is struggling in many different ways.

Women are prevented from obtaining Driver's Licenses because in places in the Middle East women are forced to rely on the men in their lives. “Women are not technically banned by Saudi law from driving; they are only prevented from obtaining Saudi driver's licenses or using foreign licenses” (Di Giovanni). This quote shows that although licenses are not actually banned, it is difficult for a Women to obtain one. In many places in the Middle East, like Syria, women are required to follow strict dress codes and always be with a male family member. Education is also something that is not given to women in the Middle East. Women are not given access to reading, writing, or any type of learning. The way women in the Middle East are treated shows what little amounts of rights they are given. Although they have some rights, they are beginning to get taken away by the government and groups such as ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra. The movement to equal Rights for Women in the Middle East is very far from its goal to be equal because they keep having their rights being taken away. Asia can also be seen as a place where women are not given the same rights as

men.
Asia can been seen as a place that is struggling to achieve equal rights for women. In Asia, women are still required to have their father’s pick out who they will get married too. The women hass no choice in who she will marry, and if she chooses to disobey her father she may even be killed by her family members. “In Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, including nominal democracies, a woman's father still arranges her marriage. If she defies him or marries another man for love, she is liable to be murdered by members of her family in what are considered 'honor killings'”(Levine). This quote shows that who they marry is chosen by someone else and they have no say in choosing for themselves. It also states that these women can be killed by their own family members if they don’t marry the person who was chosen for them. This is unfair to women because men do not have to follow this same rule.
While The Crucible explores the need to oppress in human nature, the issue of Woman’s Rights in contemporary society illustrates we are still faced with this oppression in the U.S., Middle East, and Asia. Women’s Rights is an issue that affects everyone’s lives whether or not the person is a female. Women’s Rights determine what someone's wife, sister, or daughter can or cannot do in the future. If people continue to fight for the rights of women, in the future we may see totally equality between men and women.