“The Pumpkin Eater” By Alexi Kondylas The short story "The Pumpkin Eater" by Isabelle Carmody is a coming-of-age rite of passage and an allegory. Events in the narrative show quest conventions that are common throughout history. Like with; traditional gender roles are restrictive, beauty can cause unhappiness for women, and that love and marriage trap women. The quest short narrative have conventions that assist the exploration of ideas with the quest - the journey and prize. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (princess) thought that having true happiness meant finding a man/prince to sweep her off of her feet/ to instantly fall in love , and take her away from her castle/home.
We are so dependent on how we look and if were popular with our pears that we don’t show the real side to us and have a fake image that projects to everyone. But sooner or later our charade falters and crumbles into dust leaving your real personality. All though you lose some friendships, you can develop more real friendships on truth and honesty. In the ‘Little Red Hen written by Diane Blacklock’ he main character, Meg was shown to be naïve to the opposite sex, when she saw him on the train she thought that from one look that he was hot and also she believed in her mind that he was a ‘nice guy’. So when he came into the chicken shop after she was
An old lady has just told me that I speak exactly like Queen Victoria. (Shaw67)” This is a key moment in the play, because the reader can see Eliza’s true desire to ultimately fit in with the elegant women of the higher social class . Before this moment, Eliza wanted to be compared to the queen, but now she realizes she sticks out for, in her mind, the wrong reasons. Prior to her metamorphosis Eliza was alienated by society for her barbaric nature, but after she learns the importance of phonetics she is once again alienated for being exceedingly eloquent. This is ironic because the once poor uneducated flower girl has surpassed the social status of the women she once envied.
Elisa was not only trapped by the time period and society’s expectation of her gender role, but also by her marriage. In the short story The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck’s, the main character Elisa ‘s circumstances, point of view and actions were shape by her gender and class. In The Chrysanthemums Steinbeck addresses the issue of gender inequality a number of times, first when Elisa’s Husband Henry knowing about her love and passion for her chrysanthemums stated “ I wish you ‘d work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big “ Literature a Portable Anthology (205). Assuming that her time would be better spent growing large apples at the orchard instead of wasting so much time caring for her chrysanthemums. Secondly, while Elisa was having a conversation with the thinker Elisa asked the thinker “ You sleep in right in the wagon?” The thinker replied, “ right in the wagon ma’am.
In the play, Henry Higgins is a well-educated phoneticist who takes an ordinary flower girl and turns her into a perfect woman by teaching her manners and language. Higgins falls in love with his creation Eliza Doolittle, the flower girl, into a high class woman. In the end, Eliza refuses to marry Higgins. The allusion to Metamorphoses in the play Pygmalion, predominates and enhances the play in its entirety. It is obvious that there are many difference between the play and the myth, however it is in the similarities that the allusion is found.
Key words: feminist literacy criticism; self-respect; equal; independent; feminist conciousness 1. Introduction Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. During the process of training Eliza's pronunciation, Higgins and Eliza fell into love, but to many readers' surprise, finally the flower girl Eliza announced that she would leave Higgins and get married with a poor young man called Freddy. This "imperfect" open ending set by Bernard Shaw made numbers of readers regretful and full of expectation that Eliza would come back to Higgins at length. And would she come back to Higgins and would they stay together?
The mother takes care of Cinderella through many forms, through the tree that provides her with the dresses she needs to attend the ball and through the pigeons that point out the incorrect brides to the prince. Panttaja also argues that “Cinderella finds refuge in a pear tree. Since these places of refuge continue the bird/tree symbolism we could, quite possibly, be meant to see the mother in them.” (659). Regardless of her mother dying, she was well-mothered. “Unlike the narratives favored by psychoanalysis, which are about maternal absence and disempowerment, this tale tells a story about a strong mother/daughter relationship that shape events.” (660).
“The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too” (Gen 3:6 NLT). It was at this very moment that sin entered the world.
I wish women could do such things.” (Steinbeck 231) Elisa wants excitement and adventure in her life; she wants to feel important in the world. Everyday is the same for Elisa, “It was a hard-swept looking little house with hard-polished windows, and a clean mud-mat on the front steps.” (Steinbeck 227) Elisa has the ability to produce beautiful things; she wishes to use that ability on something other than her flowers. “You’ve got a gift with things,” Her husband said about her flowers. “I wish you’d work out in the orchard
After this Sandy becomes pregnant with one of her sisters admirers and her life goal is lost. At this time of the fairy tale Sam Prince enters. He is the former husband of Mrs. Fairey and another of the sister’s admirers. Sandy likes him which we see in ll. 123-125: “And even Sandy could see the charm of Sam Prince, not only because he was mad about her cooking, but because it turned out to be Sam Prince who had described her as a Botticelli.” Botticelli was the Italian painter who painted “The birth of Venus” which shows the goddess of love, Venus, emerge full grown from the