Treatment of Females in The Odyssey and Now

Throughout the course of history, society had stereotyped women, making it merely impossible for a woman to achieve her goals and desires in life. This had weighed them not as equals, and for this, they were given different standards by which to live. At this day and age, and during the ancient Greek times, women have always been treated as second best by biased men, although today’s society has started to understand this inequality better as time progresses further into the future. Even with society becoming more equal for women, females are still treated similar as to time of the ancient Greeks. Women still don’t have as much power as men, are still “blamed” for wrong doings and thought as untrustworthy, and are still used as “currency” or are taken advantage off.

Across the globe, women are starting to gain more political power and are able to have other jobs and rights, but this was only achieved recently, as women have always been second best. To start with, women were technically considered “slaves” or just above the standards of a slave. The main purpose of a woman was to cook, clean, raise a family, and to have sex or sometimes be raped, to please a mans needs. In Greece, they were seen as an object or property of a man, and were not given full rights, and in America, women were just given “all” rights not even fifty years ago. Plus, for women in power today or those who want to be, it’s still challenging to have the people vote for them, as people think that it’s different from the norm to vote for a female than a male. During the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton ran against Barack Obama for the Democratic Party nomination, and it seemed that the country was more ready for the possibility of a bla...

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... this unspeakable thing, act as though they were the gods, and know that they could get away with everything. Men have seen women as slaves or property, and once you got one, they owned it in their eyes. The act of women using their bodies as currency hasn't changed, or the view to men that they are just property.

As modern society has begun to create complete equality between gender and race, women were still seen as second best, below their fellow man. As women of today, like the females of ancient times, still don’t have as much power as men, they’re blamed for wrong doings and untrustworthy, and their bodies are used as currency by men or are taken advantage off. Hopefully as the future progresses, these issues will be resolved and won’t continue for generations to come.

Works Cited

Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator), The Odyssey. Deckle Edge, 1997