Examples Of Feminism In The Crucible

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share

a common goal: to define, establish and achieve political, economic, personal, and social

equality of sexes. This includes seeking to establish educational and professional opportunities

for women that are equal to those for men. Now People in this world miss use the word feminism a

lot to the point in which it not even sexist anymore. In the article Declaration of Sentiment and

Resolutions, it tells us of what feminism stands for and a general gist of what it means. Basically,

it states that women should have the right to equal pay, education, and rights, but in today's data

women and men use feminism to overpower someone else. For example, if a guy was to say to

women, "if you could cook

or know how to clean," sure it may not seem offensive, but in actual
terms it is. Also in the article Can Men Really Be Feminists it states that men can show feminist
trait which means that feminism can apply to men too.
Women all over the world change the world for the better or worst, but in the past, they
couldn’t do anything, so what happens to change that. Well to tell you the truth one person
change it all for all women all over the world. In the article Declaration of Sentiment and
Resolutions it talks about the one women name Elizabeth Cady Stanton who started a movement
and ended with the freedom of all women. Basically, she made the declaration of independence
but for women called the declaration of sentiment which stated to equalize of women to men. In
which they probably disagree upon it, but seeing she kept insisting the government add the
declaration of sentiment, she had no choice but to accept it or else her revaluation would
continue and that how she got the declaration of sentiment approved and change the world for
the better.
Denied agency, is a person who is not allowed to act for her/himself. That right there is
the definition of denied agency and till this day still happens. In the past, this would have been
normal too but only for women say never for the guy. In the past and present guys were loved all
over for saving people, for going to war, or even just for being a guy. For women those things
would be considered impossible at most of the time like going to war to fight, or even saving
someone was just an ok thing not great like it should be and if women were to ack guy like or a
man to act ladylike it would be considered outcast. Now in these two books, Rappaccini daughter
and The Crucible there is much sign of different types of no agency that women have been
through and had to pay for their lives because they couldn’t fight, back.
In life, you can either fight for your life by yourself or stay in the herd never to be seen.
Now in the book Rappaccini daughter the named Beatrice, who nobody knew of. In the book it
states The reason so is because of her father who had used her a lab rat when she was just a baby.
The worst thing was she never got a say if she was tested or not because once she was poisoned
she could go back. Until her father came back to make a friend for her even though she didn’t
ask for it, so rappaccini poison another person instead of curing her of it. Tho when the other
person found out they fought Beatrice because she is poison and her whole entire life hasn’t
prepared her fight and she didn’t even know what was going on until it was too late and she died.
Men don’t control anybody's life but them self your life is dictated by your own action. In
the book The Crucible there is a big trial that is about these girls who go through a witch trial and
instead of confessing to stop the trial before it started. In the end, they never did stop it. Tho
when one man name John Proctor tried to stop it with one of the lying girl's name Mary Warren
he couldn’t because he forces her into the court to tell the truth.

In the end, she never could fight

for herself because she was never taught to fight back. In the end, she was forced to switch side

two times because they both threaten her with her life and at the full end of the book she ran

away with the person that tries to kill her scared of her life.

Upon both books of Rappaccini daughter and The Crucible is the same, but still very

different. For example, in the book Rappaccini daughter she was excluded from life and was

forced into thing even if she wasn’t for it like the poison touch. Also in the story The Crucible

mary warren she was open to the world but seems she was a girl she really couldn’t fight back,

all she could do was try to stay alive until the end. Also in both passage they were both moves by

men like a pond the only difference was is that one could fight back, but just didn’t as the other

couldn’t or else she would die. Life back then and now is a hard and dangerous one, but in the

end, we just do as we are told and most of the time don’t get a say on it and some people might

be fine with it. For those people who are good for you, but those who fight, fight to live win

at
life and get to move on with it as well.
Now times, when you see a girl or woman you think of a normal person, not some slave
or some dog, but a human bean trying to live life just as any other human. In 1800 hundred that
was a totally different story because a woman did have a voice in which what goes and what
doesn’t go with the people. In other words, the woman would stay home and clean and cook and
work and then do it over again without going outside mostly all the time, but for some women
who were given the choice to choose if they can have a voice or not some said not to the idea
being scared or change. In the article library of congress it talks about that woman who doesn’t
want women to vote. Also in the one of the thousands of political cartoon, it shows some of the
things that will happen if woman vote. Nobody likes change or power if it all comes at a price.
Women in the past were the housewife and weren’t fine just cleaning their house and
teaching the kids or even getting boss or threatened by there husband, but some woman was
action fine with the idea of doing and hated the idea of voting for there self. In this article called
Library of Congress it state, “Our appreciation of their importance requires us to protest against
all efforts to infringe upon our right by imposing upon us those obligations which cannot be
separated from suffrage, but which, as we think, cannot be performed by us without the sacrifice
of the highest interest of our families and of society”(National association opposed to woman
suffrage, page 1&2) Now what this means is that if you go out voting who is going to take care
of your family. Plus it also states that you have no time to even fight for woman suffrage. To be
honest tho it a lie most woman happen plenty of time to fight for what they think and still have
time to clean and teach their kids.
Fighting for your country is a noble thing to do, but if you never fight for anything can
you even be called an American. Now in the political article, it showed that a man has the two
babies in his hand as the woman is leaving and going to vote. In other words, it means that the
man is going to have to do the woman job as a woman would have to do the man job. Tho this is
just voting people are making a big deal about it because in the political article it looks like it for
every that the man and woman have changed, but all they are going to do is just vote for what
they think is right to them. Not to just leave and change the world by switching the role of man
and woman but to have the role of a woman modified and change so that it is fair.
Women didn’t want any special treatment all they wanted was to be equal and have the
same rights and any other person. In both the article and cartoon they were talking about the bad
designation that everyone was made by letting women vote. It mostly was a talk about any
reason why women shouldn’t vote like, it would mean that woman would have no time to take
care of their homes and kids. Also, it stated that we women can’t do anything to back them up or
have the time or even need to vote because it means that we are going to vote for our husband
would. Now though most of this is laughable and also crazy it still fighting. Like all people say if
you don’t fight for it than you already lost.
Within the next article and video, it tells us the many, many mistake men have caused to
today's date. In the video, Mrs. Mendez quotes the following “You can choose one or the other
but one was going to suffer, I don’t really believe that my personal experience as a mother and or
wife in a professional that there isn't an equal balance.” Basically, she was trying to say is that
woman can only make two option which went for the professional job or be more of a mother.
Also if you were to even try them both it would get overwhelming and explode right in there
face. Another thing is that she says in the same sentence is that women have a difficult time in
this world because in a lot of cases this is what happens when women have to work to support
her family and have to take care of it as well is a difficult take that women handle.
In one of the article’s, it tells of man worst aspect to drink and spending all the money, to
harassing and raping women, to even make there lives more and more hard to live as well. In the
article called The Patriarchs Are Falling. The Patriarchy Is Stronger Than Ever, it states “This
month, President Trump signed into law a tax bill that throws a bomb at women. The Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act ... An expiration date for child-care tax credits and a denial of such credits for
immigrant children without Social Security cards. An end to the Affordable Care Act’s
individual mandate”(Susan Faludi, page 2). Now for those of you who don't of the tax cuts and
jobs it basically an act to pay off US debt. The only thing is with that is going to be even harder
to survive if you are getting paid minimum wage. Another thing is that they are taking away
child care tax credits which make it even harder for women to live on the street. No woman
should have to deal with the thing like money, raising their kids and taking care of them while
not getting blown back into the poverty state and might even be too much for any person yet they
still manage to pull it off.
Women Power
Growth Over Men
Time: Outcome:
1839 The first state (Mississippi) grants women the
right to hold property in their own names – with
permission from their husbands.
1848 At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men
sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a plea for
the end of discrimination against women.
1869 Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to
practice law in Iowa, making her the first
woman lawyer. Ada H. Kepley becomes the first
woman in the United States to graduate from
law school.
1872 Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first
female presidential candidate in the United
States, nominated by the National Radical
Reformers.
1890 The first state (Wyoming) grants women the
right to vote in all elections.
1900 By this year, every state had passed legislation
granting married women the right to keep their
own wages and to own property in their own
name.
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote.
1923 The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment
is introduced. It says, "Men and women shall
have equal rights throughout the United States
and every place subject to its jurisdiction."
1932 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes
the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1933 Frances Perkins becomes the first female
cabinet member, appointed secretary of labor
by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1963 The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress, promising
equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the
race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the
worker.
1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act passes, prohibiting
sex discrimination in employment. The Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission is created.
1969 California adopts the nation's first "no fault" divorce
law, allowing divorce by mutual consent.
1980 Paula Hawkins of Florida, a Republican, becomes
the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate
without following her husband or father in the job.
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman to serve
on the Supreme Court.
1983 Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American
woman to be sent into space.
2007 Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the
House.
2017 Congress has a record number of women, with 104
female House members and 21 female Senators,
including the chamber's first Latina, Nevada Sen.
Catherine Cortez Masto.
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