I will elaborate as I write more, but for now would you be able to take a look at this body paragraph regarding the same prompt? It would be a great help!
BP1:
Jordan addresses the views of society on single mothers and unplanned pregnancy during the 1930s through the characters Jean Westaway and her daughter Connie, as compared to their descendant Charlotte six decades later. The access to birth control and safe abortion procedures were absent during the time of Connie’s pregnancy with Jack, causing family disarray and bringing shame on her mother Jean. This perception of required abstinence before marriage between partners brought a stigma onto Connie and her mother through association, “dragging [the Westaways] down to the bottom of [the hill]”. Jordan deftly focuses on the critical idea that due to these social values of the time, they inflicted grief upon the Westaways. This repressive attitude is engendered through her mother, Jean Westaway, who pressured Connie into having an unsafe abortion which subsequently eventuated in her untimely death. However, Jean’s aversion to Connie raising a child without a husband is likely the corollary of her raising three children without her husband alive, knowing it would result in Connie’s “life [being] ruined”. Jordan conveys the antithesis between the reproachful societal standards that Connie faced regarding her pregnancy, in contrast to the emancipated women of the 1990s. Charlotte Westaway, like her auntie, had an unplanned pregnancy. However, unlike Connie’s ordeal, Charlotte had the opportunity to raise the child without a father, which would have been looked down upon in earlier generations. Jean coerced Connie into undergoing an abortion, while Charlotte, conversely, did not “have to have it”. Charlotte is “responsible for [her] own body and [her] own fertility” which is a substantial change in personal health and liberty for women. Despite the atrocious restriction of freedom regarding pregnancy and birth control, there is evidence of drastic changes in societal views of women, resulting in the enlightened individuality of women in contemporary society.
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