This is actually in relation to the idea that her husband trapped her with no freedom. The woman deals with depression and on top of those problems from her marriage. Although her husband cares about her he does not understand that she needs to be her own person. A movie that can be compared to this short story is “Black Swan.” The main character Nina has a schizophrenic experience. She tries out for an audition to become the black swan for a ballet.
After many hard and lonely winters Ethan’s mother becomes depressed and there enters Zeena to take care of his mother. After she passed away, Ethan did not want to end up all alone like his mother, so he asked Zeena to marry him. Even though it wasn’t based on love they ended up getting married as he did not want to remain as a lonely
ACT III- Beneatha and Asagai “I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village. But I will teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly.” Asagai comes to help the Younger family pack and finds Beneatha questioning her choice of becoming a doctor. She no longer believes that she can help people. Instead of feeling idealistic about demanding equality for African-Americans, she now broods about basic human misery. Never-ending human misery demoralizes her, and she no longer sees a reason to fight against it.
This cant be answered unless you know the events Janie had to overcome during her childhood. The movie does a great job of showing Janie's disgust for Logan Killicks. Although Janie has absolutely no interest in Logan, she ends up marrying him. There was no love in their relationship, the only reason Janie's nanny made her marry was because she was scared, scared that she would die and Janie would be left alone with nothing. Nanny wanted to feel like Janie was stable, so she could rest in peace.
d. Her father believed in her education because he believed she would actually find a husband. Since she came back home unmarried, he was disappointed. I feel that she would feel disappointed in the fact that he was ungrateful that she actually went out to get an education rather than look for someone to marry. 5. Why is her father’s reaction to her story the “most wonderful” (22) thing that happened to Cisneros that year?
Acquiescence, violence, and nonviolence are the ways to handle the oppressors. One way that Dr. King opposes in his essay, is acquiescence. The oppressed people are downhearted to accept and endure their lives as inferiors. King does not accept this method due to increase great self-importance to the oppressors, and end the future of the oppressed people’s descendants. The film Iron jawed Angels, the worker ignored Lucy Burns’s speech for organizing a parade to promote woman’s suffrage because she did not want her employer to be upset and fired her.
She knew she wanted to be with Othello and so she decided to do whatever she could to have her way. Even though she knew her father wouldn’t be the least bit pleased with her marrying somebody behind his back and it being a black man, she did so anyways. Desdemona challenges the traditional role of women in her time by doing this because it would have been quite a disgrace to her family and the women of that time period. This is where we first see her strength come out. Her father says she has committed “Treason of the blood” (1, 1, 167).
Janie didn’t like that and refused to work and “worship” him for the sixty acres that he had. She threatened to leave him because of his lack of compassion for her and because she wanted better for herself. “You don’t need mah help out dere, Logan. Youse in yo’ place and Ah’m in mine” (31). This shows Janie standing up for herself against Logan because she feels that she doesn’t have to work if she doesn’t want to.
She compares Bailey’s wife face to a cabbage and criticizes her for not traveling to a place that allows the children to “be broad” (pg 265). The grandmother is an old fashioned lady. “In my time, children were more respectful of their native states and their parent and everything else “(pg266). The grandmother did not like the way the children acted and that is why she wanted to take them to east Tennessee . She did not want them to go to Florida and enjoy themselves.
The narrator states the mother’s resentment of Connie’s beauty because “her looks were gone and that was why she was always after Connie.”[451]. Connie doesn’t make the situation between the two any better by instigating her mother with curt answers and rude responses. “Her parents and her sister were going to a barbecue at an aunt’s house and Connie said ‘no’, she wasn’t interested, rolling her eyes to let her mother know exactly what she thought.”[453]. the only time Connie fully admits that she truly did love her mother was when she was crying in the phone for her. Connie’s father is a quiet bystander when it came to his wife and daughter heated arguments.