Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Hester and Elisa
After just reading The Chrysanthemum by John Steinbeck, I automatically drew many similarities to Eliza and Hester Prynne. Two women from different eras that experience the difficulties of self identity, gender roles, and conformity. For instance, in the case of self identity, both women struggle with who they want to be and who they actually are. Gender roles plays a major role in their self identity, such as Hester's want to be feminine and sexual, but society frowns women upon express these characteristics in public (especially if it goes against rules, or is considered a sin). Whereas, Elisa wants to be a little more masculine and show a side to herself that does not conform to the roles of a women. However, although both Elisa and Hester would both like to outwardly express who they truly are, they ultimately both conform to the gender roles given to them by society. ~Sabrina Hernandez
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I too see the relation between these two females and understand where you are coming from. I believe that women during that time were just caged in and rejected of their desires no matter what role they prefer either feminine or masculine. And these women in particular try to rebel a little however end up to please society and just go with the flow, in the end.
ReplyDeleteWell going off of what Muna said the females weren't respected as equals so they had to be more masculine to be somewhat seen as equals to the men. Being a female or of a minority during this time period was not an easy walk in the park. Gender roles do play in to the societies. They kind of have to conform to what they have.
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