Gender In George Orwell's The Call Of The Wild

Throughout history, women were always considered as less superior compared to men. Nowadays, even though it has gotten a lot better, women still are thought as unimportant. They were treated unfairly when they were perfectly capable of doing things males could do, perhaps even more. They were presumed to be helpless, piteous, creatures who were weak and couldn't do anything and were here just for the sake of men. But women have so many important roles. Therefore, Mercedes gender is irrelevant to her flaws and unpleasantness because there were plenty of females who were fit for the harsh Klondike and Mercedes wasn't the only unfavorable character in the novel.
Many females had influential and major parts in the Klondike. Belinda Mulrooney was …show more content…
Hal and Charles were troublesome and greedy. On page 42 it says, ¨´The lazy brutes, I'll show them,´ he cried, preparing to lash at them with a whip.¨ This quote shows how they were going to whip the dogs when they were already exhausted. They didn't even know that they had to break the ice off from the runners of the sled. Stated on page 46 it says, ¨It was inevitable that they should go short on dog food. But they hastened it by overfeeding, bring the day near when underfeeding would commence.” This statement shows how Hal and Charles don´t know anything about dogs. Another loathsome character in the book is Spitz. He thinks he's so great and has the authority to bully other dogs who are on his team. When Buck first came, he was being picked on. Being the intelligent dog he is, Buck decided to stay away from the fights until he had to. Quoted from page 24 it says, ¨ Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless. This was Spitz's opportunity. He sprang on Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting for and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.¨ In this piece of evidence, it shows that Spitz´s was always trying to pick on someone (especially Buck) and never missed an opportunity to fight and kill. A fact in life is that you're going to meet a great deal of people who you won´t like. This is the reality. They can be any gender, female or male, but the cold hard truth is that there will always be unpleasant people out there. There will be numerous people who are annoying and you won't like and it isn't according to gender. This is why Mercedes´ imperfections are not related to her

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