Political Cartoon: Plight of Women in USA

Women haven’t always had rights like men have; women had to fight for their rights while men had theirs handed to them. This political cartoon shows an arrow with a sign that says Women’s Rights, but on the sign there is a spider hanging on a web with a ‘?!’ above it. This shows how old the rights are, and more so, no one has really exercised their rights recently as illustrated by the cobwebs and spider. Women rarely ever get rights of their own. This relates to Anne Bradstreet because she as a woman doesn’t have many rights, and if she does she doesn’t have many. Next, we see a woman with a rope around her waist and a hand pulling the rope, dragging her further from Women’s Rights which are what she wants. We can also see she is putting up a struggle because of the claw marks on the ground. This is portraying that she, like other women, want rights. She is fighting for her right to do things, she wants to be treated the same way men are. This relates to Anne Bradstreet because she is pulled from things which she wants, and she has no way to fight for it. Women wish to have rights that mean something, like Men’s Rights. In conclusion, women just want to get out of the past where they had no rights and move toward the future where they hope to have many rights.
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