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In Hemingway’s novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, the role of women is something one can not avoid noticing. Although only two women appear in the book, the distinction of their characters, and their influence on the situation are apparent from their introduction.
Pilar, even from the beginning is constantly referred to as being like a man. One of her main features and personality traits is that she has the confidence, knowledge, and look of a man. This is apparently a praisable quality because the men compliment her on it constantly. She also has the ability to really understand the strategies of war, to the point of becoming the new leader of Pablo’s band fairly early in the story. However, she has not lived her life as though she were a man. She is technically the woman of Pablo, and has had many experiences with other men before. She tells us of her time in Valencia.
“We made love and then sent for another pitcher of beer with the drops of its coldness on the glass...” (86)
She seems very feminine and beautiful in this passage, and in many other descriptions of her past, but Hemingway always tells us, quite frequently through Pilar’s own dialogue, that she is masculine and ugly. (97)
Maria, the second female character, is just the opposite of that. She is perhaps the only representation of feminine nature at all, not including the country of Spain, for which they are fighting. She is described as very beautiful despite the fact that she has recently been in captivity where she was raped and had her hair cut off. She is submissive, yet not weak. She has an inner strength that comes with surviving torture, but it is not one of her overwhelming characteristics. Robert Jordan calls her “little rabbit” which seems a suiting cognomen. She is small and dependent like a rabbit. She lets Pilar tell her what to do for the most part, and when Robert Jordan comes she becomes his woman at Pilar’s suggestion. We are not told if this behavior is due to the fact that she was captivated for so long, or if she was like that before her entrapment, but it seems likely that her recent living arrangements had something to do with it. It is clear that Robert Jordan likes her behavior, and that to him it accentuates her beauty, but even Jordan is surprised ...
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...is proposterous. The pity is unnecessary in that playing the role of a man is actually to her benefit in the male dominant world she lives in. If she lived a life like Maria does, she would certainly not be happy, or live up to her potential as a fighter in these missions.
Maria does have some brains and is not entirely an object, and Pilar becomes jealous of Maria on several occasions, which makes their characters more complex, but the main male characters of the book certainly have more facets to their personalities. Maria and Pilar don’t really have secrets from the reader, and if they started out with one, it was revealed quickly. Because there are only two women in the book, one might have thought that they would have represented all women, but their characters are so distinct that it is hard to see that as the case. It is possible that Hemingway himself has a biased against women, but in a book such as For Whom the Bell Tolls in which a war takes place, perhaps it was the fact that in general women participate in battles like these less frequently. It could be simply a case of statistics rather that trying to prove a point, or Hemingway’s biase.
For example, in her poem “Lavanderas del Grijalva” Castellanos writes “mujer de la espuma y el ademán que limpia, halladme un río hermoso para lavar mis días” (Castellanos 9-12). Rosario portrays these women to be like priests, a man-only occupation. She is making the women equally important as a man while challenging patriarchy by comparing women's labor to that of a man. Also, women are no longer in the shadows of a man as described in her poem “Poesía no eres tú” when she writes “para no convertir a nadien en un espejo… “El otro, la mudez que pide voz al que tiene la voz y reclama el oído del que escucha”. Poetry is not about silencing women, nor treating them like extensions or images of a man.
In Ernest Hemingway's short stories "Indian Camp" and "Soldier's Home," young women are treated as objects whose purpose is either reproduction or pleasure. They do not and cannot participate to a significant degree in the masculine sphere of experience, and when they have served their purpose, they are set aside. They do not have a voice in the narrative, and they represent complications in life that must be overcome in one way or another. While this portrayal of young women is hardly unique to Hemingway, the author uses it as a device to probe the male psyche more deeply.
This implies that young women that work for maquiladoras were assumed to be immoral or lose by the media which in turn implied that it was alright for them to be brutally murdered because they brought it to themselves. Theoretically, the femicide construct shows a social phenomenon which led to the crimes against the young girls and women; they are linked to a patriarchal system which predisposes to a lesser or greater degree that the women should be killed (murdered). Furthermore, this idea may also be extended to the American girls also whereby the authorities blame Irene for becoming kidnapped. Furthermore, the novel’s recurring idea suggests that the Mexicans are deeply involved in religion but they are also chaotic because they are unable to solve the madness caused by the
Which is caused by the narrator having a male perspective. The narrator does not give the women and credit or redeeming qualities. All the women follow a general stereotype. If they tried to break away from the stereotype, they would me more important and influential characters. Paquette, a chambermaid in the Baron’s castle, is described as “a pretty and obedient brunette” (5). She is identified obedient not because of her job as a chambermaid, but because she is willing to exploit her soul and body to the men around the castle. In regards to the old woman, she doesn’t even have an actual name, which does not matter since is ugly and useless. The old woman has the mindset that she is; an object; a mistake; a disgrace. That her time has passed as a beautiful useful woman. All the rape and abuse has physically affected her and she is out of luck. In fact, she is lucky if men talk to her, or even look at her without
The novel brings to life their struggles, triumphs, and search for self. None of these are more evident than in the character Pilar Puente. Pilar begins the story as simply a child longing for home, but evolves into so much more. From the beginning, Pilar shows to be a girl who simply wants to belong. This desire for belonging is only strengthened by her deep love for her distant grandmother and resentment for her mother. However, by the end of the novel, Pilar is able to find her true self. Through her long sought-after trip to Cuba, Pilar finally realizes her identity. Her entire life had been leading her to the truth; Pilar was an American, one who would never let go of her Cuban
Women were represented in different ways throughout the movie Metropolis, but the underlying theme was women were seen as purely sexual. Maria was seen as the nurturer in the film, but also as a sexual object. She was the one who preached for peace and harmony down in the catacombs to the workers. Maria was also the nurturing maternal figure that was seen walking into the garden with all of the poor children. The vamp, on the other hand, was portrayed blatantly as a sexual object. This whole movie was seen through the eyes of the male perspective, which usually portrays women as sexual objects, and robs them of any identity. Lang shows Frederson as having fear of femininity which involves women's emotion and nurturing.
... are the “weaker, purer, more virtuous sex” (10), however, in this poem, Lady Maria is the more aggressive, imploring, suggestive and outspoken one. Humility is not her goal here: there is a play on the word “rule” (16) where in Lady Maria is pointing out the hypocrisy in the rules in order to establish a relationship in which she is the one who rules.
Above all, Hemingway wants to make the reader understand how one person’s selfishness and needs can manage to manipulate another one by pretending to care. He also proves how women at times can be easily influenced by the people they love. They are tricked into believing they are everything to them. He shows a couple’s different point of views and their inability to understand and listen one another. For the most part, Hemingway send the message that everything is possible. A woman does not need a man’s approval for anything. Women are successful, strong and can overcome the biggest things in life.
He also challenged the typical gender roles by creating a relationship between the two that was quite a close friendship but entirely platonic and void of physical action. One could see the irony in Jake’s inspiring manly men with his male dominant agenda because if one were to take a step back and focus in on the real Jake they would notice how vulnerable and emotion driven he truly was. They would see a man who did not portray the gender role assigned to him by society. Then if one were to look at Brett they would not see a woman who decided to conform to the norms of society, either. Instead they would see a woman who knew what she wanted, took what she wanted, and didn’t care what others thought of her. When Hemingway creates these two characters he creates entirely new archetypes that will be used in works of literature from there on out. Archetypes where the male definition can indeed include vulnerability, although, it does not release the male characters from their most stereotypical gender roles as protector and provider. In other words, Hemingway redefines manhood to include more feminine attributes, but he does not release men from the chains of their past roles so that in essence the new man has even more expectations set upon him. The archetype that he creates is not only responsible for
Through the characters' dialogue, Hemingway explores the emptiness generated by pleasure-seeking actions. Throughout the beginning of the story, Hemingway describes the trivial topics that the two characters discuss. The debate about the life-changing issue of the woman's ...
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