Historical Contextual analysis of Samuel McChord Crothers
... afraid of doing anything whether it was taking care of the household, looking for provisions, or planting a garden. For many years, men have been praised for the work they perform while the women just sit around and watch them acting as trophy wives who are supposed to be admired but not heard of. Crothers is introducing a new way where this time women are given the opportunity to act and not be just another ornament on a mantel. Granting women suffrage, women would be able to decide things for themselves such as whom they want to see in office and they would be able to speak their mind. It is time for the men to just look, sit, and praise the women. Men feel threatened about what women are possible of doing and do not want to admit that women have always been influential in civilization. Women are starting to realize that what they have always considered conventional and natural might not be the truth and if they push the barriers it might ensure a new kind of freedom for women. Changes occur from time to time and while before only a few women felt that they had limitations and were being restricted in certain areas, many women are now coming to the realization that they helped in creating these limitations by not fighting at the time they were placed. It is time to fight back and change the way things have been for a long time. The majority of men have always viewed women as the weaker sex. Crothers tries to negate this argument that you cannot judge a gender by the actions of one member of that gender. Men think that the reason Adam sinned and ate a fruit from the forbidden tree from the Garden of Eden was a woman. Eve is seen as the one who tempted Adam into committing this sin. This incident just proves that men and women are the same and they both succumb to temptation no matter what. Even though a woman might be determined to change and be different from all the women she knows or has known regarding their ideals of womanhood, this proves to be impossible for her because eventually the same ideals of other women will appear. The same case is true when it comes to a man wanting to change but the difference is that a man is less inclined to admit that he could not change. Men regard women as being inferior to them but they fear and are alarmed when they read a “feminist book with an astonishing programme”, that it is what women will do when they get the vote. It cannot be assumed that the action of one woman will result in a group or the whole population of women doing the same. Men feel comfortable with what they have always known and do not like the changes that will result if women were given the right to vote and so therefore are against women suffrage. Men were given the impression that if feminine influence were granted it would be the same as comparing them to the Pope because of what happened in Spain with Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart. A generalization was made in this case that depended on one woman alone, with it came the realization that men’s theories are impractical, and are based on situations that are near impossible to occur. The bible showed that if women would make good rulers because Deborah, who is mentioned in the bible, ruled Israel wisely. Even though there are some exceptions where women do not make good rules, such...