The women Chartists that had supported men to get the vote felt very let down. Male criminals could vote yet female doctors, factory workers and mothers couldn’t. One of the most significant contributions to the achievement of votes for women in 1918 was made by the Suffragists. Female suffrage societies were firstly developed in more middle and upper class areas like London, Manchester and Edinburgh. They started because of their disappointment of the 1867 Reform Act when it failed to include women.
Summer Reading 1) The book begins describing the main character as he talks to a French lieutenant. He is about to get on a train called the Taurus express. His name is Hercule Poirot the famous detective, but he is not working a case, not yet anyways. On the train it is very quiet with only two other people, Mary Debenham and colonel Arbuthnot. Then when Poirot gets off the train and arrives at the hotel, and very quickly receives a letter summoning him back to London.
Cyrano only expresses his frustration with the size of his nose when talking to Le Bret, his best friend. His insecurities make him much more human and relatable than his mask, ultimately making him realistic and not comically extraordinary at everything he does. Roxane has qualities of a very caring, independent woman with a weak point for the romantic. She continuously does things to remind men of her beauty, intelligence, and kind-hearted personality. She quickly
Phineas is an influential, charming figure, and a genuine good guy. He inspires in Gene loyalty and jealousy at the same time. In his head, Gene creates Phineas as his enemy and thinks that Phineas resents him for his academic success. However, the reader soon realizes that in fact, it is Gene who resents Phineas for the lack of resentment he has toward Gene. Because the novel was set in the early years of World War II, a major theme throughout the story is war.
While still married to Wilson, Myrtle does everything in her power to try and imitate the life she sees Tom and his friends living. She attempts to throw parties, similar to Gatsby, but they are almost all failures that demonstrate how much lower in class then Tom she really is. In fact, it is her lowness in class that is what keeps Tom from forming a real relationship with her. Although Tom tells Myrtle that the reason that they cannot form a solid relationship is that Daisy is catholic, "it's really his wife that is keeping them apart…" everyone, with exception to Myrtle and her sister, knows that is not the real reason. A person of Toms stature would never marry a women from the Valley of Ashes, and Myrtle is too naïve to realize that.
She is hiding it from her husband because he didn’t let her write anything or do anything, because in Victorian times, women had less opportunity than men. Also women had to listen to what their husbands said as they were the heads of the house. The husband didn’t believe his wife which shows gender role and creates marital problem when he come to know that he was wrong about not believing her and she was mentally
William Forrester believes himself perfectly fine until he is face to face with society, and has to overcome it. Sean Connery is an amazing actor and doesn’t fail us in ‘Finding Forrester’. He brings William Forrester to life as a man welling with energy despite his nuances. F. Murray Abraham plays the role of Professor Crawford, a bitter man everyday faced with his own failure, and one of the more shallow characters of the movie. The reason is how obvious his jealousy and racism are.
She understood that her father only wanted the best for her, but she was discomforted by the idea that her dad was promoting her around and trying to recruit a husband for her. As if she couldn’t find a husband herself. These types of things showed Sayeed that women in her culture did not have much say in who they married or when they were ready to be married, because the father usually sets everything up for them. This was a big inequality between men and women because the women were not even allowed to choose who and when they wanted to marry. Also, women in her culture had to cover themselves up, in order to show modesty and self-protection, which she thought to be an unequal hierarchy.
Alcee Arobin is a lady’s man who has many affairs with different women and intends to make Edna another one of his affairs. But Edna doesn’t let Alcee take control of the relationship; she writes him when she wants and decides when they should go out. Being in control is a reverse role for Edna, but she knows it is really who she is, and it is what she wants. Alcee plays along and lets Edna take control, and Edna discovers the satisfaction of using a man the way men usually use women. Although Edna has taken control of her own life, she is still not happy with her life because of the many different types of love she has experienced.
Much of the conflict between old and new revolves around family life, the roles of women and children, and marriage-areas that in Indian culture are closely governed by tradition. Many young people aggravate at the rules imposed by their parents, who seem much stricter than other American parents do. Perhaps the single most troublesome issue between parents and children in Asian Indian American families has been dating. In traditional Indian culture, dating is unheard of; boys and girls have very little contact with one another before marriage, which is arranged by their parents. Dating is completely foreign to traditional Indian ideas about the proper relationship between the sexes.