this conditioning may be extreme but you can think of it in a way that relates to our society. Some people are born and raised in churches and grow up already established in a set of beliefs that them are going to follow unless they are proven wrong. A girl who grew up with a single mom is noting going to know how a real family works until she is shown something that is different. They are really made to be happy with what they are destined to be in life, just like in the World State. "All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
It is very apparent from the beginning that Jess and her sister have different ideas of how young women should behave, compared to their parent’s beliefs. You do not see them wearing the traditional Indian clothing. The sisters want to fit in with their British peers, and the era they are living in. Jess is not always enthusiastic about participating in some of the traditional aspects of her culture, although she understands that her parents push her to participate because it is all they know. Religion is a huge aspect presented in the film.
The theme culture clash is used instead of favouring either the Indian or the Western culture, the filmmaker shows how the two manage their uneasy coexistence. The Bhamras have raised their daughters according to their traditional Indian-Sikh beliefs and customs, but Jess and Pinky as young British women are equally influenced by contemporary British culture. This often conflicts with their parents’ traditional beliefs and practices. The scene where Jess’s parents find out that Jess has deceived them and gone to Hamburg, Jess’s mother asks her husband “what haven’t we done for these girls?” The girls are in the next room talking about love. This scene demonstrates to the audience the generation gap and clash of culture.
She seems to embrace the challenge of being pregnant, raising a child, and living her life the same way she always has. The man’s view of raising a child is that it is a challenge that he’s not up for or just doesn’t want to go through with. His vision is blocked by the responsibility and what he’d be giving up instead
We were given a chance to take the route of honesty, truth, and loyalty. The road is very hard and tough and it is our choice how we make our fate out of it. Each person has their reasoning on what they intend to do and why, and mine is that my purpose on earth is to take a path of Truth to reach God. This for me is a way of life. I have to go through this world that has lots of difficulty and lots of thorns on the away, and I need to get to the other side.
Later on, Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen arrive at the party. Algernon however maintains that he won’t say for the party, he has to visit Bunbury though he offers to arrange music for her. Jack proposes to Gwendolen, when her mother is being distracted in the other room by Algernon. Shockingly, Gwendolen accepts his proposal. Her claim is that she has always wanted to be married by a person called Ernest as it sounds so aristocratic.
These oppositions of values offer the reader a chance to balance their own views on the sanctity of marriage. They also have the chance to empathise with Elizabeth as she declines Collins' offer, which could seem selfish as it not only risks her future security but that of her families as well. Austen has already made the reader aware of Darcy's affection towards Elizabeth however. “Elizabeth could not help observing... how often Mr. Darcy's eyes were fixed on hers” (p45)3 making their relationship inevitable from early on in the novel. Austen introduces the character of Elizabeth indirectly through her father.
Hagar avoided dealing with the death of her loved ones, a divorce, moving across the country, and the disownment of her father, and remained same proud and stubborn lady that she always was, even as a small child. Where as if she were adaptable, she’d have let the tragedies and experiences erode and shape her into a better person. The first incident that really showed Hagar’s inability to adjust to things that happen in life, would be in the death of her brother, Dan. They were ice skating in the winter when Dan fell through. Hagar and her other brother, Matt, carried him back to their house across town, soaking wet, in 40 below weather.
Losing a child or grandchild is a situation that no one would ever want to experience. I have trouble knowing that my brother lost his child, and I have no clue how Phoenix or my brother would feel. She was losing a grandchild that meant the world to her, and she was trying to always do what was best for her and the grandchild, even though it meant that she was going to go through the valley of the deep. In the quote it says, “thorns, you are doing your appointed work”. Phoenix knew she was in the right place at the right time.
She states in the first chapter that the “solace” of marriage is “visiting and news.” This explains why Mrs Bennett is so desperate for her husband to visit Bingley and find out more about him and to introduce him to their daughters. It is either her marriage that she is worrying about or the prospect of her daughters’ marriages. Marriage is also presented as a key moment in the lives of women and this is shown by the fact that the only things that Mr and Mrs Bennett discuss in the first chapter of the book are their daughter’s possible marriages. The significance of marriage in