Chapter seven of Typhoid Mary looks at the long-term tenacity and cultural persistence of Mary Mallon. Much like our titanic song assignment, it is looking at the changing perspectives of how people look at Mary. The image of Mary changed rapidly over the years with relation to the question of how to keep the public safe without impeding individual freedoms. The typhoid Mary persona created by the writers ranged from someone feared, shunned, or uses her sickness to purposely harm others; as time goes on she is then portrayed as a woman with strength, and puts the people first. Writers start her legacy by saying she was a \u201chapless menace\u201d and \u201cdangerous but blameless.\u201d (Typhoid Mary 203) Soon after her incarceration writers used Mary as a means to promote the study and acceptance of modern science. Skip forward a 50 years and now they are writing about the strange innocent killer. In 1966 John Lents wrote about Mary\u2019s \u201cStrange Case\u201d and depicting her as evil with no regard to the welfare of others. Just over 3 years later in 1970 another writer called Mary dangerous and incorrigible. That writer, however, was writing for a magazine whose goal was tor try and popularize history so the story is probably overdramatized. Just 9 years later a new perspective came about. This one was of Mary as completely feminine but intentionally evil. From the 1980\u2019s to the present we now look at Mary\u2019s story as one of personal sadness. The narrative is completely compelling and try to make us understand the position Mary was put in. Chapter seven of Typhoid Mary looks at the long-term tenacity and cultural persistence of Mary Mallon. Much like our titanic song assignment, it is looking at the changing perspectives of how people look at Mary. The image of Mary changed rapidly over the years with relation to the question of how to keep the public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-fall2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHeaven01 had mentioned in a previous post that it is good to question history<\/a> so we can get obtain better understandings of events. “We question [history] to learn.” To question is the key to a good historiography is to look at the background of events at the time and ask questions like, what was going on now to make writers think this way about a sick woman? If we look back to when this story took place and ask ourselves, was imprisoning Mary for something she couldn\u2019t help right? Or can we learn anything about the way these carriers were treated in the past compared to how they are treated now? History is like a river you can never step in the same river twice but the feeling of the river stays the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"