In summary, silence and voice are both themes which can be easily found in The Woman Warrior. Oftentimes, they are regarded as binaries. The binary opposition silence and voice is closely related to power relations. Whereas the former one, according to Hunt, signifies weakness and inferiority, the latter one is linked to superiority (7). However, Parrott suggests otherwise. He says that silence can be associated with “power” when deliberately chosen but a “repression” when being imposed by someone else (Parrott ). The most salient feature of silence and voice is that Kingston uses both in order to create an …show more content…
Generally, men are associated with superiority, activeness and strength, while women are articulated with inferiority, passiveness as well as weakness. Concerning Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, there seems to be one additional attribute to the men-women dichotomy: men as the favored sex and women as unfavored one. This chapter demonstrates whether there is actually a favored sex in The Woman Warrior’s Chinese spatial setting and if it does, what the female characters did in order to be respected like