Writing Option 2: Analysis of Women's Role.

Women played a big role in the Athenian society. What Pericles says was basically that the men mostly took the women for granted. Without the women though, the men would not have food on the table, or clean clothes. Pericles also states that he was kind of sorry for the women because god made them women, and really they shouldn't be shoved down at all because they helped out a bunch in the society. Also, that when men criticize the women, they really do care about them, they just can't show it. The men take the women for granted, and never praise them because what they do is considered petty, even though what the women did was anything but petty, and they don't even realize that.