Water Reflection

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Watching Water has definitely opened up my eyes to how in various parts of the world, a woman 's role in society can be portrayed differently. We tend to take for granted the world that we live in while there are other people that have it worse than us. Here in America, us women have a voice and freedom. In contrast, India doesn’t let their women really have a chance, especially if they are a widow. Americans favor the independence of women. Therefore, if you are a widow in America, you can live carefree just as you did before even having a husband but in India, once your husband dies you are exiled from society; everything you worked for or had is now taken away. In the movie Water, it tells a story about a young girl whose husband is sick …show more content…

They have five social structures in this system, Brahmins being the highest who are the priest or ritual specialists and Untouchables being at the bottom considered polluted or impure. Throughout the movie I started to analyze how the widows would be categorized as an untouchable; even at one point during the movie there was a scene where Kalyani accidentally brushed against a lady who was probably in a higher structure, and she says to Kalyani, “You’ve polluted me! I have to bathe again.” I was so shocked to hear her say that because Kalyani’s appearance doesn 't give off that she’s untouchable; yes maybe the garment that she was wearing indicated that she was a widow but everything else would say otherwise. No one wants anything to do with untouchables and that 's how it is with the widows, they are expected to live their lives in poverty, are excluded from any activities that the people of higher structure might experience, and they have little or no income; the best they could do for some sort of income is beg. What surprises me is that both the untouchables and widows accept this lifestyle, well because they don’t have a choice; they 're either born into it or have the misfortune of marrying and losing everything once their spouse

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