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changing roles of women

ill have key roles in the poem but in Sakuntala they have no major roles. Sakuntala herself plays a demeaning role. Being forced to do chores, make food, and labor in the house. this is much different in Odyssey where man did some chores and brought home the food. In ancient Greek time women were seen as being delicate and placed on figurative pedestals. They were expected to take care of the house but had word in the decision of the order and way things should run in the house.In Flannory O Connors Good Country People O Connor a women, you would think she would give her female characters more superficial role or personalities she doesnt. In this story the main character Joy Hopewell is a very smart, pretty women in a depressed mental state in which she labels herself ugly and hideous. She then changes her name to Hulga in the reach to better radiate her inner situations. She does this because she feel that Joy should be considered a happy, joyous, loving of life person. So she finds Hulga to better express her as being ugly, lonely, and depressed. ( O connor good country people literature pp. 182)Mind you that Hulga was also handicap. She had lost her leg in a hunting accident at 10 years of age. She then was forced to leave with a wooden leg. With all these depressive elements she was stated as having a weak heart. Which is why she hung around inferior people because it made her feel superior. In the pursuit to claiming a sole, she placed all her emotion into the wooden leg making it her most precious belonging.Hulga then meets up with a bible salesman named Manly Pointer who was described as being polite, well cut a image of a country men Hulga becomes real attached and attracted to him because she finds him real sincere, genuine, and importantly improving her self-esteem. The more time they spent together the closer they got. Hulga feeling strongly about him decides to reveal her sole to him the wooden leg. Pointer strangely fasci...

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