1. The role of Gender in Colette "The Hand"
Even presently, with all our advances in equal rights and women's advances in the work fields, this role of compliance and passivity is still present among our society. ... By describing him such as big and powerful with hair on his hands and arms, the author portrays him as an animal of sorts. At one part of the story, the wife even remarks on this when she says, "It's as if I were laying on some animal" (Meyer 163). ... This reflects the savaging natures, the animal-like fierceness, of the dominating male in relationships. ... Now, with advances in women's rights and the expan...
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