Issues on Women
Reflection: New Year’s Eve Sacrifice
Women’s rights around the world are an important indicator of understanding global well-being. Many may think that women’s rights are only an issue in countries where religion is law, such as many Muslim countries. Or even worse, some may think this is no longer an issue at all.
But, Hsiang Lin’s wife is a picture of a pitiful woman, discriminated, and a woman who doesn’t have an identity of her own. She’s a picture of a woman who no one ever cares if she does exist in this world. Upon reading the selection on New Year’s Eve where it relates the life story of Hsiang Lin’s wife, my heart can’t just stop beating fast controlling my emotions thinking that I can’t do anything to defend her from such oppression and from such humiliation. It is very much humiliating that even she, herself couldn’t have that right to decide on her own. Issues such as forcefully offered as wife to other men in exchange for cash, good or we may coin it as wealth. Women’s dignity I believe is not worth anything in this world and it can not be bought by any wealth in this world.
Lu Hsun’s “New Year’s Eve Sacrifice” for me is a masterpiece. It is a masterpiece because it presents to the whole world the issues about women that has to be taken care of and needed much of our attention. I am just so grateful that nowadays especially in Philippines, this kind of practice to which Hsiang Lin’s wife suffered does no longer apply. There are already a lot of institutions who played the role of women defenders against all prejudices of women. I, myself would stand firm as well, to protect my fellow women, my self to which we are safe and far from what life has brought to Hsiang Lin’s wife.
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