The Subjection of Women Characters

The Subjection of Women Character List

'Male Sex'

John Stuart Mill expounds how the male sex relishes ‘unjust power’ relative to the female sex which occasions the omnipresent gender inequity. The ‘unjust power’ that the male sex revels in is viewed as regular.

Aristotle

John Stuart Mill cites Aristotle’s opinions vis-à-vis the “the dominion of men over women is usually based, namely that there are different natures among mankind, free natures, and slave natures.” The citation is central to building Mill’s thesis concerning the resemblance between slavery and gender disparity

Slave-owners

White slave-owners underwrote the notion of racial disparity be dominating the blacks and calculatedly yoking them. They considered the enslavement of blacks a regular edict of existence.

Queen

The Queen exemplifies utter feminine potency; Mill states, “Nothing so much astonishes the people of distant parts of the world, when they first learn anything about England, as to be told that it is under a queen: the thing seems to them so unnatural as to be almost incredible.” The queen’s authoritative rank astonishes people considering most cultures consider men to be the grander beings who should commander regimes such as the monarchy.

Englishmen

The Englishmen do not adhere to gender egalitarianism: “To Englishmen this does not seem in the least degree unnatural (The Queen’s power), because they are used to it; but they do feel it unnatural that women should be soldiers or members of parliament.” Englishmen do not regard women highly; hence, they do not commend of the women’s immersion in political dealings and warfare.

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