Frailty is the Name of Woman

1. Introduction
2. Man and woman are two halves of a perfect whole. Strength is born of their union, their separationresults but in weakness.
3. Ruskin:”They are in nothing alike, and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other whatother only can give.”
4. In Bible, God is said to have fashioned Eve out of a bone from Adam’s side, not from his head or his foot, which indicates thatwoman, is on equality with man.
5. Nevertheless, man in his pride and selfishness, has from age to age kept woman in bondage and addressed her as ‘Frailty’.
6. While the orthodox condemn woman as the source of all vices, the romantics adore them as fairies and angels, a basis of all kind of artistic inspirations, even an instrument of spiritual realization.
7. Both the orthodox and romantic views ignore the essential human qualities of woman, a being in flesh and blood subject to same virtues and weaknesses, triumphs and failures, as her male counterpart.
8. The foundation of social and political life of any country is the family, and the centre of this family is the woman.
9. Napoleon:”Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.”
10. But it does not mean that they must be confined within the four walls of the house with no right to take part in social and political activities.
11. “Educate women and the nation will take the charge of itself; for it is today, it was yesterday and will be to the end of human life that the hand that locks the cradle is the power that rules the world.”
12. Charles Fourier:”One could the judge the degree of civilization of a country by both social and political position of its women.”
13. But in their zest for social political activities, the woman should not lose their essential womanly qualities, as they are doing today. Under the western culture, they are today drifting farther from their domestic duties and consequentlylosing their essentialwomanliness.
14. In fact, a woman is made not to compare with but to aid and advise man, she does not either into a conflict but to resolve it.
15. Conclusion

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