When Benedick says he does not like the dish, he is being disrespectful not only to Beatrice but to the people of the time. He also states that no woman will be let in to his perfectness until the woman is perfect herself. Benedick loves teasing people but will not accept the fact that people tease him. Shakespeare illustrates benedick in more detail which allows the audience to understand what type of character
Nora describes her feelings as ‘always merry, never happy’. This conveys the notion that when Nora slams the door and leaves, she is not only slamming the door on Torvald but also on everything else that has curtailed her growth into a mature woman. The stage direction ‘wiping her mouth’ conveys Nora’s discrete actions which would resemble those of a child around their father. When the play was first performed in English, it was titled "The Child Wife" which presents the idea that Nora was a victim of her husband’s patronisation as well as living in
Cherin’s narrator’s mother displays particular acts of dysfunction, and the narrator disputes his mother’s ability to deal. He gives examples of his mother’s habit, mountain, sedimentary, salient, and symbol; the specially guarded collection of stuff placed in the middle of a room creates a distance between the narrator and mother. The narrator refuses to accept his mother’s compulsive behavior because he knows she can improve. The overall approach to survival with both poems underlines obvious differences, in which Hidle’s “My grandmother the Vietnamese prostitute” suggest that survival in some occurrences is sacrificing a moral standard in order to provide for one’s children, while Cherin “My Everest in the Suburbs” suggest that some survival-means contain acts of neglect and unhealthy ways of caring for ones children. In”My grandmother was a Vietnamese prostitute,” Hidle’s narrator recognizes the hard choices made by her grandmother and mother to pursue prostitution as an alternative to survive where typically, the nature of such choices would be deemed immoral, she describes her grandmother’s job: “She fucked money and jewelry and
Women are the weaker sex in this play: they are forced into giving into male power by doing what they are told; which is expected of them. Characters like Beatrice do not conform: she is the complete opposite to what a woman should have been like in Elizabethan times. Women were expected to be quiet and obedient. She, however, is a loud, aggressive and sarcastic character, and she does not obey the commands of any man. If anything she gives commands, ordering Benedick to “kill Claudio”.
This sheds light on the societal norms that these women were expected to follow, and therefore on the reasons behind the questionable behavior of both the men and the women in this play. Based on the behavior of the characters in Trifles, women were expected to behave much differently in the early 20th century from now. Both female characters that have speaking roles in the play are generally quiet and obedient around the men, even to the point of not contradicting them when they decide to leave due to lack of evidence even though they, the women, had found the dead bird in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket. This suggest that women in that time were expected not to know anything about investigating, or even to know what constitutes pertinent evidence. Even if the women had pertinent evidence, it seems like the men would expect them not to present it because they, the men, would most likely not think that any evidence discovered by a woman would be pertinent, since the first time a female character talks one of the men responds with “women are used to worrying over trifles” (Madden, 773).
Consequently, he refers to her as “frail” (Act 1, Scene 2, line 146). It is apparent that Hamlet would have preferred to make decisions for his mother just because she is a woman. He does not trust her mother to make wise decisions even though she has been queen for quite some time. Ophelia, on the other hand, bears the brunt of male chauvinism as she is not allowed to choose for herself who she should love. Her father prohibits her from having a love relationship with Hamlet.
Dunstan Ramsay, the novel’s protagonist exhibits the issue of how a rough childhood can impede on relationships later on in life. Dunstan’s relationship with his mother leads him to develop three problems that arise in his dating life. The first problem is Dunstan’s trust issues; he can never fully trust a woman due to his betrayal of trust with his mother. The second problem is Dunstan’s negative depiction of sexual relations. Due to his mother’s stern moral beliefs, he does not have much interest in sexual relations and has negative views on it.
Character Logs for Romeo and Juliet Romeo At the beginning of the play, Romeo thinks that he is not good enough for Rosaline. He doubts himself: “She is too fair…wisely too fair.” Act 1 Scene 1 Line 220. He thinks that he doesn’t deserve such a beautiful and clever girl as she is out of his league. Romeo is so under pressure and depressed that he doesn’t want to think about anything else. This miserable situation is making him feel disconnected from the world, and he cannot handle all the strong feelings he has: “O teach me how I should forget to think.” Act 1 Scene 1 Line 225.
The role of women in Othello is not one that benefits the gender as a whole. During the era in which Shakespeare wrote the play, women were inferior to men and society expected them to behave in certain ways which kept them subservient. Throughout the play women are subjugated and manipulated by the male characters. Emilia, Bianca, and Desdemona are all used and abused by their male superior, and though they try to struggle out from this domination, it is done in vain. Bianca is a character who is barely seen in the play.
In fact he becomes so angry that he tells Ophelia that he never loved her and that instead of marrying she should go to a nunnery rather then pass on her genes to children. At this point in the story, Hamlet makes it seem as if he is not interested in women anymore. For the readers perspective at this point in the story they are clue less as to the true feelings of Hamlet. Hamlet also does not have very much respect for his mother anymore. This may be why he has such a difficult time getting along with women.