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Poverty and hardship are shown to create vulnerability in female characters, particularly the female servants, allowing powerful men to manipulate and sexually abuse them. Kent illustrates how poverty perpetuates maltreatment and abuse in a society like Burial Rites using the characters of Agnes’ mother Ingveldur and Agnes. Agnes’ mother is forced to make invidious choices as her children are “lugged along” from farm to farm, where she is sexually exploited by her employers. In spite of these circumstances, Agnes’ mother is commonly referred to as a whore in their society which abhors female promiscuity yet disregards male promiscuity as a harmless character trait; as in the case of Natan, who is merely “indiscreet” despite all his philandering. Born into poverty, Agnes experiences similar sexual coercion and manipulation from her “masters” and yet is labelled “a woman who is loose with her emotions and looser with her morals”. The severe poverty of Agnes is explicitly demonstrated to the reader by Kent through the intertextual reference of her entire belongings - a very dismal, piteous list to be “sold if a decent offer is presented”. Furthermore, Kent contrasts the situation of Agnes, a “landless workmaid raised on a porridge of moss and poverty”, to the comparative security Steina has experienced using a rhetorical question from

We looked into Zhaboonigan’s rape and furthered researched and uncovered that Sexual abuse against indigenous women is far more prevalent in indigenous cultures. It is also prevalent to real life and just because it happens in a play does not mean it does not happen in real life Helen Betty Osborne’s story being a prime example and connection. Highway raised awareness of violence against Indigenous women by basing Zhaboonigans rape off the true story of Helen Betty Osborne so people could make the connection that sexual violence is alive and real in today’s world and should not be

Rape has changed several of its victims lives. Many victims suffer from psychological and physical issues. Many of the Psychological issues would include; PTSD, Depression, Flashbacks of the event, Eating/Sleeping disorders,

Ruined by Lynn Nottage won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is comprised of an assortment of women who exist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These women face social and political horrors within their civil-war torn territory.

Through dramatic action in the play Ruined written by Lynn Nottage, a character’s nature and intentions are revealed throughout the play. A main character is complex, revealing different aspects and layers that make up the character. This essay will discuss how Mama Nadi’s conflicted nature is revealed through primary actions throughout the play that reveal her character. The essay will deal with three primary actions that reveal Mama Nadi’s character in the play through action.

Therefore, the story of a young woman named Debarah sheds light on women lying about being raped to gain access to international aid. Debarah knew that raped women had access to resources, particularly food, and money. Her neighbors knew that she had two brothers for whom she was the sole provided after the deaths of her parents. Debarah neighbors told her to go to the clinic "say you were raped and you will be supported." Warner. The Congo We Listen To. (2017).

Lynn Nottage’s play, “Ruined”, is an eye-opening story that takes place in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Civil War. The play is centered around women who have been sexually abused, and are living and working in a brothel owned by the protagonist Mama Nadi. The play gives deep insight to the hardships women had to go through during that time. The play is a melodrama and a great example of a contemporary version of realism. This play also illustrates three important characteristics of storytelling we discussed in class: stories teach, stories allow us to personalize issues, and stories build compassion.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country brimming with violence, rape, and abuse. Living in such a fragile country is difficult, and as a result, the Congolese struggle to be happy. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Mama Nadi is a business woman who runs a brothel in the midst of a brutal civil war. Her business provides men with alcohol, music, and beautiful women to have sex with. The play uncovers the struggle of Mama Nadi, the working women, their loved ones, and the Congolese. It also reveals their ways of dealing with issues, such as singing talking, sex, and drinking. In this play, alcoholic drinks represent the desire to numb the pain of war in the Congo.

I don't know the answers to these questions, but I'm sure that the victims of these tragedies have come up with their own. In her memoir, Lucky, Alice Sebold describes how the various reactions to her rape affect her in many ways. Mary Alice, though scared and barely sober, gave Alice a small smile and acknowledged her joke. While at the hospital a short while after the rape, Mary Alice joins Alice, and Alice says to her “Don't say I can't sober you up” (17). Alice then goes on to write “It was the first thing from my old life that I recognized on the other side.

Ruined by Lynn Nottage is a powerful play that narrates the nearly normalized issue of sexual violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nottage personally traveled to the DRC and interviewed the victimized women and created a play that is based on their stories. She composed a very powerful play that made its audience to become aware of tragic situations that take place in African countries today. Throughout the play, Nottage brings the reader to raise several questions, such as why did these vulnerable women become the target of violence and what drives militiamen to commit these crimes rather than protecting them.

Women between the ages of 15 to 44 are at a greater risk of rape than cancer, malaria and a motor accident (Wood, 2009). According to Amnesty International (2014), 40 women are raped everyday in South Kivu regarding the on-going armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sexual violence during armed conflict has historically been known as one of the legitimate spoils of war (Brown, 2011). Spoils of war result from defeating a population and claiming benefits due to its instability. Thus violence towards civilian’s asserts dominance, however the implications involved must be rooted to deeper consequences to a nation. In this essay I will argue that rape is perpetrated against women

First, this book talks about the sexuality of women. Back in those days, women were considered lower than men purely on the fact that medical doctors had the notion that women had the sexual organs of men but inside out (Wiesner, 56). Second, I chose to target the issues of rape in the past. Women rarely came forward to accuse a man of rape (Wiesner, 61). This leads to the thought that more women were raped than that came forward, directing

Months passed, she couldn’t even sleep. She suffered from nightmares. Every time she closes her eyes, she could see the image of the raper. She couldn’t sleep alone

New knowledge that I acquired during this chapter involves the perspective of victim-precipitated rape. The following perspective is that of assuming the survivor is actually the blame for their rape. In an effort to clarify the meaning of this perspective, the writer included examples such as; a survivor whom was raped because of the provocative clothing she was wearing. Some seem to think she was asking for it. Or young man who flirts with his female professor assumes he wants to engage in sexual relations results in being raped at a tutoring session at the professors home.

Lynn Nottage’s Ruined is the story of Democratic Republic of Congo. To write this play, Lynn Nottage interviewed many Congolese women who told her in plain words of the treatment they had endured at the hands of the Militias. Rape and Sexual violence were all too common occurrences in a country still ravaged by civil unrest, in an ongoing war fought over women’s bodies. “Eastern Congo,” according to U.N. special representative Margot Wallstrom, “is the rape capital of the world with 48 women being raped every hour.”(1) Rape as a weapon of war is recognized as a tactic to humiliate, dominate, instill fear in, and forcibly relocate civilian members of a community or ethnic groups. This form of sexual violence against women and girls is relied upon by government, rebel soldiers, police, criminals, civilians and even husbands. Women often seen as the bearers of the culture, as the representatives of any given community, are raped systematically as an instrumentation of open warfare, by breaking down families and destabilizing communities, children who witnessed the violence are also traumatized. Nottage in an interview with HBO news channel said: “Almost all the women I