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This 4-page paper focuses on the role that women play in Frederick Douglass' semi-autobiographical "Narrative." The women under discussion include Hester, his grandmother and Sophie Auld, and the symbolism these three women represent in the book.
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slave Frederick Douglass denounces slavery, not through hysterical pronouncements, but through thoughtful, incisive and logical thesis and conclusions. Though the primary theme of this semi-autobiographical work involves the strange institution
of slavery as a whole, Douglass also spends some time focusing on women throughout the work as well. Though he does focus somewhat on two fairly important women in his
life (his Aunt Hester and his grandmother), the Narrative mostly deals with the male side of slavery. His main purpose, likely as not, in writing this mainly autobiographical work, was
to tell about the poor sides of the institution of slavery; and in his own experiences, women shared the double burden of being targets of sexual abuse, as well as
being chattel to white plantation owners. For one thing, Douglass focuses on the victimization of female slaves in particular - for the
most part, when hes describing the female slaves, he describes them in rather graphic and gory terms, talking mainly about the abuse these women have suffered, as well as their
tortured and emaciated bodies. He also paints the slave women as victims of masters sexual desires (in addition to economic gains),
focusing especially graphically on his Aunt Hesters assault by her master, and the abandonment of his grandmother by the master after she outlived her usefulness.
In fact, Douglass makes these particular scenes as pivotal points of his writing; as Captain Anthony (who has a passion for Hester), whips Hester, it crashes down
on Douglass the terrifying problems of slavery. Basically, the whipping opens Douglass eyes to the physical and emotional cruelty of slavery (though the fact he didnt realize this before is
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