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Making A Difference Essay, Research Paper

Making a Difference

For centuries, women have been seen as inferior individuals. Women of every

generation have been trying to change that image. They have been fighting for the right to

lead their own lives, to not be controlled by anyone, to be able to make their own

decisions, and to be free. The Taming of the Shrew and The Awakening are two novels

that portray a woman who, in some way, is controlled by someone. Back then, women

were not independent: they did not lead their own life until they took their own

constitutional rights into their own hands. Through the years, women have made a big

difference on society for future women of America. The women in the 1800 s have made

more of a difference than any woman today because of their dedication and determination

to give women in the future a better life.

The Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, portrays two daughters

whose decisions were made by their father. Back then, women were not respected as well

as men were. They were seen as property more than they were seen as people. Bianca, a

young maiden in the novel, was arranged to be married to a man that would be able to

support her financially and who would give her the most worldly possessions. Anyone

could pursue her only if her father was able to find a good enough suitor for her older

sister, Katherine. Katherine is the noisier of the two and has no suitors because of her

shrewed manor. Yet her father is adament that she shall be married before Bianca. So, in a

sense, these two girls were controlled by their father. He was the one to decide who they

were to spend the rest of their lives with. The two girls had no choice, no say in who they

would marry and love.

Having an arranged marriage was not very common in the years that followed.

Even still, it was uncommon for women to make their own decisions. Before the Women s

Rights Movement was started in 1848, women were seen as property. Men were

completely in control of almost any situation. In Elizabeth Cady Stantons Declaration of

Sentiments, she wrote, The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and

usurpation s on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment

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