The Betrayal of a Female Essay - 575 Words

The toxic relationship of Tom and Daisy is the center of a revolving circle of love and distress in the classic novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The ideas expressed throughout the novel reinforce the patriarchal ideology in present day as well as that of the 1920’s when the book was written. Through his use of characterization he portrays women as emotional, irrelevant states of matter in an attempt to reinforce the idea of male dominance to the reader. Many â€Å"cast men as rational, strong, protective, and decisive.† (Tyson, pg 85) Giving the illusion that men are the head of the household. Which is what most young people are taught as they grow up in such a society? Where as they â€Å"cast women as emotional (irrational), weak,†¦show more content†¦This would be designating the female as the mistress of the house, where she births and tends to children, cooks, cleans, and plays naive to the actions of her husband. Fitzgerald includes a stat ement, given from the mouth of Daisy, saying, â€Å"she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.† (Fitzgerald, Pg17) He presents to the reader a woman at her most vulnerable state implying that a woman is weak in nature, and also attempts to â€Å"undermine women’s self-confidence and assertiveness.†(Tyson, pg 86) The novel as a whole seems to say that the belief of human equality is a myth. Fitzgerald wrote this novel in an attempt to put his entire heart into writing it. It seems that Fitzgerald truly believed in his ethnic was the superior and this novel was his â€Å"No† to a woman having any type equality in standards. The way Fitzgerald designs the novel to be is set up by class and gender. He begins the text with the explanation of each setting, and goes on to introducing characters as the narrator meets them. If you were to notice how many times the word â€Å"woman† is spoken in theShow MoreRelatedFemale Betrayal in The Winters Tale compared to Iago in Othello687 Words   |  3 Pages The Winter’s Tale and Othello, both by William Shakespeare, contain fantasies of female betrayal. In both play’s these fantasies are aggregated by something, be it Iago in Othello or Hermione’s pregnancy in The Winter’s Tale. Iago confronts Oth ello in act 3.3, eluding to his wife’s betrayal. Both Othello and Leontes have a seemingly sudden onset of jealousy. However, Othello’s jealousy forms later in the play than Leontes’. 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