He thought it was better to have sons than daughters. He wanted her to grow up and become someone's wife. When Sandra told her father that she wanted to go to college he was happy. Not because she was getting an education but because he thought colleges were good places to find a husband. When she finished college and did not have a husband her father felt as if she had wasted an education.
Probably not. Born to Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck, Beryl Markham was brought up by a single parent, her father. Abandoned by her mother at the age of 7, the only lady figures in her life were her governesses, whom she didn’t really approve of. This may have created a dark spot for women in Beryl Markham’s heart, which is probably why she suppressed her feminine features and let herself be dominated by her male side. It also explains the undying trust and respect she had in her father.
Xenophon wrote, “Lycurgus thought that for free women the most important job was to bear children”. Marriage was unusual in Sparta; it was common for a married couple to keep their marriage a secret until the birth of their child. Women married around the age of 18, or when according to Plutarch, they were “ripe for it” – mentally and physically ready for motherhood. Spartan women naturally had very strong maternal instincts and were sought after in Athens as nannies. The role of rearing children was paramount and their relationship with their sons was not of the norm.
THE ONLY DAUGHTER AND JUST ONLY A DAUGHTER What if you are the only daughter in a family of many sons? All of us have various answers basing on cultures, or parents’ bias/ stereotypes, or ourselves’ minds. In a short story “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros is “the only daughter in a family of six sons” (Cisneros 620). She spent a long time to make her father understand that she could achieve more than what “the only daughter in a Mexican-American family” (620) could. I am also the only daughter in a family of four children, which effected on my life so much.
The desperation of the hunt is the desperation of economical survival (301). This would be the case of the Bennet family. Due to the misfortune of only having daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have to try to marry their daughters to respectable young men to survive. Elizabeth knows the importance of being married to a fortunate man, but she also wonders about the happiness the marriage will bring. She knew that if she had accepted Mr. Collins proposal it would bring unhappiness to both “you couldn’t make me happy, and I am convince that I am the last women in the world to make you so” (73).
“Now suddenly she was Somebody, and as imprisoned in her difference as she had in anonymity.” In the narrators point of view her child was an outcast, a nobody, but when she got the call from her daughter it seem the sun finally started to shine in her daughter path, she was free. Narrator heard was the happiness in her daughters voice and started to accept who she had become. In Everyday Use, a mother regrets bringing her children in a world of poverty and
Her views about others, the points she makes, her view of life, and her quotes are going to be the evidence for everything said about her. The sister to twins Pedro and Pablo, Angela suffers great humiliation when her newlywed husband discovers that she is not a virgin, Angela is the youngest daughter of the Vicario family, who have raised her to marry. Even though she is prettier than her sistersm she somewhat resembles a nun appearing meek and helpless. The Vicarios have watched over her carefully, so angela has had little chance to develop social skills or to be alone with men. Everyone expects Angela to be chaste.
In this period of time women were not allowed to work. They could not inherit wealth from their father, and the Bennet sisters were no exception therefore Mr. Collins was their heir to Mr. Bennet’s property. Hence, the ambition of finding ‘good husbands’ to her all five daughters of Mrs. Bennet’s is fair in the sense of security. Some women in 18th century were willing to marry just because marriage was the only allowed route to financial security, or to escape an uncongenial family situation. This is the dilemma is expressed most clearly by the character Charlotte Lucas, whose pragmatic views on marrying are voiced several times in the novel: "Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated
She beats herself up every day, and asks herself, why she didn’t go back. She knows that if she went back she would have a great life and a good job where she could support herself. She always relies on my step father for money. Unfortunately, I do not want to turn out like my mom. My step father didn’t get to go to college either because he took me and my mother in at a young age, so he
Finally it will describe how these obstacles help us discover our true selves. In Cisneros essay, she describes her conflict with her desire to be a writer and her father’s expectations of her. Cisneros states, “Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife” (Cisneros 1). This expectation only pushed Cisneros further into her passion, hoping that one day her writing would win her father’s approval. After attending four years of college and two years of graduate school, she still felt her father viewed her education as a waste because she had not married.