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A 7 page paper which examines the types of social roles depicted of the respective genders in each novel, considers if the women were allowed to be independent from men (and if so, at what cost), whether the position of women changed much over time, and in which period would it have been more advantageous to be a woman and why. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGscarlom.rtf
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it was in a rustic military camp, a wigwam on the prairie or within the rigid confines of a nineteenth-century religious community, societies both primitive and civilized dictated it to
be clearly a mans world. Men could play whatever role they chose whether it was heroic warriors or dashing lovers, but womens roles were assigned to them.
It is almost as if they were socially conditioned to perform obedience as if they were domesticated animals. From the beginning, social roles were defined in strict accordance to
gender, and this changed surprisingly little as societies became more sophisticated. Two nineteenth-century novels, James Fenimores The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter (1850)
considered the ways in which men and women of their respective times interacted with each other. These works lend themselves well to sociological analysis and provide considerable insight into
how gender perceptions gradually evolved. In Coopers The Last of the Mohicans, he constructs a kind of "ideal society [that] preserves a natural division separating men and women into prescribed
gender roles" (Woidat 21). According to feminist critic Jane Tompkins, these were essentially disguises men and women wore that reinforced their gender identities not only to themselves but also
for society (Samuels 104). In The Last of the Mohicans, womens roles had evolved surprisingly little from the time of Homers epic poem, "The Iliad," in which they remained
for white men prizes to be fought for and won (Dyer 340). Women were completely dependent upon men for their survival, as evidenced in the central female characters of
Cora and Alice Munro, who were guided by English military officers and Indian guides through the wilderness during the height of the 1750s French and Indian War to be united
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