Her marriage was an arranged marriage and the young man was a clerk working for the Minister of Education. “She suffered from the poverty of her dwelling, from the worn walls, the abraded chairs, the ugliness of the stuffs” (Clugman, 2010) represents how she perceived her status. Her concern was she was not living in the royal manner she believed she was born to do. Her husband lifted “the cover of the tureen” (Clugman, 2010) and all her mind could do was wander to places where she had exquisite meals and service. He was quite satisfied with her cooking, but she was never satisfied.
Her first thought, when she received the invitation, was of appearance instead of gratitude. Madame Loisel was unsatisfied with what her husband had given her and wanted even more, mainly because that is what she needed to impress everyone else. Even after her husband had given up 400 francs that he was to spend on a weekend hunting trip with his friends, for his spouse’s dress, she still was not fulfilled and complained by saying, “’I hate not having a single jewel, not one stone to wear, I shall look so dowdy. I’d almost rather not go to the party’” (de Maupassant 335). He had suggested that she wear some flowers instead of expensive jewels, but she claimed that it was not enough for her.
The story starts off right away describing Madame Loisel beauty and charm but unfortunately she was born into the wrong class. She isn’t happy with the life that she has. She dreams of a life with parties and elegant dresses and jewels. Madame Loisel is so envious of a rich, old school friend who lives a different life that she actually refuses to go and visit because she feels worse about her life when she returns home. Her friend doesn’t appear to be proud of boastful in the story and doesn’t seem to care that Madame Loisel is poorer than her.
The list of her roles implies the many things expected of her. As well, the three different grading systems seem to show her frustrations with multiple standards. Few people see being a typical mother and wife as a full-time job in itself, and it is not unusual for women who are both of these to feel overworked and unappreciated. In Pass/ Fail Pastan appears to be portraying her fears of ether her or one of her children’s fear of failing or passing an exam. The speaker is having nightmares of failing tests.
The fact that he quickly came up with a fib to tell in front of his guests obviously shows how used to covering up his eating problem he is. Not only is his eating considered highly improper compared to the society he is surrounded by, but Algernon's compulsive eating also reveals men’s weakness in the whole play. A key detail about Algernon's frequent and exaggerated food consumption is that it is always someone else's food, always women’s . In general, it is men, especially men in the high society, should provide food for women and guests. While ,in Algernon's case, he is always receiving food from the women around him, rather than providing for his guests .This fact also observably proves that the men’s weakness in the high society.
Educating Rita How does the character of Rita change throughout Will Russell’s Educating Rita? The title refers to what happens throughout the education of this woman called Rita. Rita is a lower class woman who is expected very little of. She wants to do something better with herself, so she does something not many women of her class would normally do, get an education. Rita is 26 years old and works as a hairdresser which she doesn’t like for many reasons.
This occurs through the main characters Rita a young woman passionate about education, and an elderly tutor, frank, disenchanted and bored with his profession. - Characters Both the characters of this play are dissatisfied with their lives as Rita feels trapped in her middle class life. Whereas she believes an increase in intelligence and worldly knowledge will change this, and set her "free". But on the other hand frank is an upper-class society, well-educated but his attitudes to life are very dull; he is a less renowned poet and has lost most of his respect through drinking. Frank does not like to go out he like to be inside and does not like to socialise His room symbolizes him and Rita is trying to open him up to the outside world but he doesn’t want to.
Language is a key in relationship. We all use English language in different ways depending how we grow up with it. While, on the other hand, in the article, “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan describes how English affected her and lead her to become a great writer “When I was growing up, my mother’s ‘limited’ English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English.” Her mother’s limited English actually helped her a lot, and I strongly believe that her mother’s limited English lead her to become a great writer. By that meaning, when Amy Tan was a kid, she saw how her mother had difficulties in the society because the lack of communication.
The mom says:” I don’t know how to read or write, and I’m askin you to help me.” The woman then begins to smile, she feels good about herself because she’s superior and the mom is inferior. It shows that the mom is a loving and caring mom whose only intention is a better education for her daughter. This also means less humiliation and a brighter and happier future for her daughter. The narrator is 1st person and it’s showed by this quote:” I am also wearing yellow socks…” Here we clearly see the using of 1st person with the”I”. It’s also a limited point of view because we have limited knowledge about what’s happening in
Although many women of this era quietly took their place in society as expected it is very likely that they too went through an internal struggle with this shift in their role from innocent child to a subservient housewife. The symbol of the husband’s hand in this story represents this nameless woman as well as countless other women of her time and their struggle with male dominance as they transition into society’s version of a good wife. The wife first notices the hand as her new husband is sleeping on her shoulder and it seems to symbolize a trophy as she recounts all the things she admires about him in a child like manor, “To meet a handsome, blonde young man, recently widowed, good at tennis and rowing”. To her this hand represents the fairy tale of marriage dreamed of by many young girls. This phase is what most people refer to as the honeymoon phase.