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Role of Woman During the War and his life

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Role of Woman During the War and his life

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In his poem, there was no mention that women served in the war, and we know that women weren't allowed to do anything back then but sit at home and provide for their family. However, he did mention nurses back in England, but it is unlikely that he met any woman during his time in the war.

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Women are caregivers at the institution (female nurses?)

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Women are caregivers at the institution (female nurses?)

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just like throughout the poem, women were seen as motherly and as caregivers - now at the end of the story women are not looking at him the same way and are continuing to "care" for him (care for men)

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It was seen as noble to go to war, especially since the social system and political leaders encouraged this (fight for our country!) (all political leaders during this time period were male)

Men were expected to "step up" and women were expected to "support" them

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this intro is dark and seems as though the narrator is lonely "till gathering sleep had mothered them from him" - this suggests that no one cares about his feelings because he is a man - as a man he "cannot" and "should not" share his feelings and emotions as it is mothered away from him (only women can feel?)

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"slim" "subtle hands"
- this suggests that woman are there to "look pretty" and to "handle"

warm hands = nurturing/ kind/ motherly

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Idea that men go to war and get drafted (chosen) which is a "good" way for men to become strong and honoured

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Meg is his girlfriend - she has no real personality (she is seen more as an object than a person)

"giddy jilts" - a jilt is a woman who is unpredictable and impulsive

Owen's suggests that girls will love you for going to war, but if something happens, they may think otherwise (become uninterested) which suggests the idea that women are interested in the "idea" of a soldier (perfect body, brave, handsome, etc.) as opposed to the reality

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"no fears/of fear" - notion that men can't fear or feel emotions

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The women's eyes/passed from him to the strong men

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The women's eyes/passed from him to the strong men

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idea that women are only looking for men that are "whole" and "manly."

- women are too "fragile" to take care of themselves and need a strong man at all times.

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he is less of a man because he is disabled - lost his masculinity - women don't look at him the same way they used to before the war

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being a soldier = better than other men/stronger, godly

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his friends encourage him - they try to maintain his manly persona, he looks good in front of his friends

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Stereotypes - plays sports that are aggressive in nature - believes that war is the same - wants to confirm and prove his manliness

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lost his manliness - inferences that he is gay or impotent (lacking power)

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no - this is also written from a man's perspective so it is predominately male sensitive

This is done because it emphasizes the loss of masculinity at the end of the story and to emphasize that women do not have power in the given society - they are expected to serve men with their endeavours regarding the war

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Applying the feminist approach to Wilfred Owen's "Disabled" reveals that men who are driven by the need to prove their masculinity may make irrational decisions that ultimately lead to the loss of masculine pride and cause a feeling of failure if they cannot live up to the expectations of society.

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Questions that the Feminist Approach asks:

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Questions that the Feminist Approach asks:

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How are the relationships between men and women or those between members of the same sex presented in the work? What roles do men and women assume and perform and with what consequences? What gender stereotypes are evident?

What role, if any, do patriarchal constructs play in the lives of the characters/society? What characters benefit from/are limited by patriarchal authority structures?

Does the author present the work from within a predominantly male or female sensibility? Why might this have been done and with what effects?

Does this text offer any successful female role models? How do they resist conforming to patriarchal authority while still exhibiting positive female traits?

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BY WILFRED OWEN

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,

And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,

Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park

Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,

Voices of play and pleasure after day,

Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

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About this time Town used to swing so gay

When glow-lamps budded in the light-blue trees,

And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,—

In the old times, before he threw away his knees.

Now he will never feel again how slim

Girls' waists are, or how warm their subtle hands,

All of them touch him like some queer disease.

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There was an artist silly for his face,

For it was younger than his youth, last year.

Now, he is old; his back will never brace;

He's lost his colour very far from here,

Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry,

And half his lifetime lapsed in the hot race

And leap of purple spurted from his thigh.

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One time he liked a blood-smear down his leg,

After the matches carried shoulder-high.

It was after football, when he'd drunk a peg,

He thought he'd better join. He wonders why.

Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.

That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,

Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts,

He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;

Smiling they wrote his lie: aged nineteen years.

Germans he scarcely thought of, all their guilt,

And Austria's, did not move him. And no fears

Of Fear came yet. He thought of jewelled hilts

For daggers in plaid socks; of smart salutes;

And care of arms; and leave; and pay arrears;

Esprit de corps; and hints for young recruits.

And soon, he was drafted out with drums and cheers.

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Some cheered him home, but not as crowds cheer Goal.

Only a solemn man who brought him fruits

Thanked him; and then inquired about his soul.

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Now, he will spend a few sick years in institutes,

And do what things the rules consider wise,

And take whatever pity they may dole.

Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes

Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.

How cold and late it is! Why don't they come

And put him into bed? Why don't they come?