Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”

Volume: 6 Number: 2 December 25, 2018
  • Özgür Serdar
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Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”

Abstract

The condition of women was not very bright as regards to equality in the early-twentieth-century America, as they were tyrannized by male power. While the times meant prosperity and hope for the growing power of the world, there was little light at the end of the tunnel for women. Women’s hoarse cry was subdued by men who dominated them in every single facet of life. Literature can be deemed as the reflection of life and correspondingly, the plays of the era did not turn a blind eye to the problems that women encountered during the period. This article aims to analyze the way women were made less valuable and it also intends to underscore the strains that they had to confront along with the inequality and the bigotry within the scope of the groundbreaking plays Desire Under the Elms, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Crucible, written by Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller respectively. This article argues that the woman was incontrovertibly perceived as the inferior sex and was tyrannized under male power in the twentieth century. Thus, the isolation and maltreatment of women due to their condition as ‘the Other’ along with the corrupted approaches and myths behind misogynistic notions forwarded by men and witnessed all around the world are discussed in the twentieth-century America, for it was America that proved unable to back their rights and their place in society, despite her endeavors. Lastly, how women’s alienation at such a high level negatively affects their psychology is problematized in this article by referencing to the aforementioned plays. On the surface, the female characters selected for this study can be considered to be ill-fated. However, this article puts forward that the subjugation and disenfranchisement of women is a direct consequence of patriarchy, masculine parameters and discourses

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Özgür Serdar This is me

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December 25, 2018

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Year 2018 Volume: 6 Number: 2

APA
Serdar, Ö. (2018). Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi, 6(2), 371-378. https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX
AMA
1.Serdar Ö. Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible.” KJES. 2018;6(2):371-378. https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX
Chicago
Serdar, Özgür. 2018. “Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and ‘The Crucible’”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6 (2): 371-78. https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX.
EndNote
Serdar Ö (December 1, 2018) Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6 2 371–378.
IEEE
[1]Ö. Serdar, “Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and ‘The Crucible’”, KJES, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 371–378, Dec. 2018, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX
ISNAD
Serdar, Özgür. “Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and ‘The Crucible’”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi 6/2 (December 1, 2018): 371-378. https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX.
JAMA
1.Serdar Ö. Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”. KJES. 2018;6:371–378.
MLA
Serdar, Özgür. “Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and ‘The Crucible’”. Karaelmas Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 2, Dec. 2018, pp. 371-8, https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX.
Vancouver
1.Özgür Serdar. Left Out: The Subjugation of Women in “Desire under the ELMS”, “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “The Crucible”. KJES [Internet]. 2018 Dec. 1;6(2):371-8. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA78TG42LX