In the Enlighten Period there was a great difference socially, educationally and generally between me and women. In Gulliver's travels the narrator and the Houyhnhnms show how in their time period women had a place. The narrator portrays women as uneducated, vale, unclean, as servants and conning. He stated "I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudiments of lewdness, coquetry, censure and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind"(Swift 463). The Houyhnhnms saw women as flirtatious "that a female Yahoo would often stand behind a bank or bush, to gaze on the young males passing by, and then appear, and hide, using gestures and grimaces;.."(Swift 463), also as animals and mean to other women. They classified their women as servants and used them for reproduction, "When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany the consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens;.."(swift 466). The narrator portrayed men as smart, in power, that they were raised from youth for a purpose to rule over others.
In today's society women are more educated, we work and still work within the home. Even in today's society we still have some people that believe women are stepping out of their place in the jobs that we do and the power that we hold. We have to stand up and be counted just as men because some have to carry the role of the men and women in some households due to the increase rate of single parents. Men also in today's society are stepping out of the box and being single parents.
It's amazing the changes that have occurred over the centuries and there's more to come.
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