After the death of Cinderella’s mother, her father remarried in order to provide a complete family for Cinderella. Initially, Cinderella’s step-mother was caring and loving. Upon the death of her husband, Cinderella’s step-mother morphed into a cold, merciless woman who refused to treat Cinderella as a member of the family. The step-mother and step-sisters treated Cinderella as lower class and an outcast. The step-mother was primarily concerned with ensuring that her own “daughters have a better life than she” (Schectman 602).
The Awakening During the time in which “The Awakening” was written, the expectations of women and the limitations of law allowed them little or no independence. Women were expected to perform the social role of a doting wife and mother. As one of these women, Edna has little or no opportunity to express herself in the ways that she wanted to. It’s as though she is trapped in world where she doesn’t belong and can’t find any escape. She feels obligated to her husband and children.
(Hekker,416) On the other hand, Tannen reveals that she never wanted the traditional life that her Russian born mother wanted her to live. Instead, Tannen achieved her own educational goals and then tried to understand her mother's point of view about the roles of women. (Tannen,422) While both Hekker and Tannen discuss the changes over the last fifty years involving gender roles, cultural viewpoints on American marriage, and the value of a higher education for women, Tannen’s article proves to be more valid because she avoids not only the unnecessary emotionally loaded excuses but also Hekker's apathetic approach to attain the possibilities that women have available to them today. Of the two authors, Tannen seems more credible because she takes more responsibility for her decisions. Both articles discuss personal examples of how the women in each of the author's families affect their own decisions regarding marriage, the value of a higher education, and gender roles.
Like her I had to somewhat grow up without a father figure and become the “mom” of the household. She is definitely a character I can relate to. I find Katniss very unselfish because when the draw to chose the players for the Games came around, she took her sisters place to participate. I consider myself unselfish because I would go out of my way to
She hated her husband, Anse and wanted no connections to him what so ever which was why she wished to be buried in Jefferson with her family rather than his. “Motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not.” Addie describes how that life is miserable and only offers great opportunities to those who are given it rather than those who earn or deserve it. Woman had it rough during the 1920s. Addie had very little opportunities and felt trapped in the world she lived. “She watches me, I can feel her eyes.
She did not find that a marriage service generated love; she did not enable her husband to recapture his youth through hers; nor could she compensate for that by running his home in the manner of an experienced housekeeper.” This quote illustrates that Elias Strorm was very cruel to her that she died after her second child was born. She was a beautiful, young woman who Elias turned into a very dull person. She always wanted him to be happy and be a good person, but that did not happen, he was just unfair and unpleasant to everyone. To conclude Elias Strorm’s wife is a good supporter of her husband as well as Emily Strorm. The role of women does demonstrate bystanders and supporters of their husbands and family member.
Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in The Glass Castle about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is about her family of six and how they struggled all their life to get where that are today. From even before Jeannette was born her parents decided to live their life in quite a very unorthodox way. Her parents refuse to give into society's ideas of responsibility; thus leaving their children to fend for themselves for even the most basic of needs. Jeannette shares her story in a very modest way that does not involve anger or self pity.
She married Roger out of social and economic necessity. When she commits adultrey, she conceals his identity from Dimmesdale. Roger chillingworth visits hester while she is in prison and they both discuss to eachother that their marriage never worked out. Hester says, " I have greatly wronged thee!",(72). Hester is the least sinful because she only committed adultrey and that she never told Arthur chillingworth was her husband.
Mother describes how Dee would read to her and Maggie “without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (104). The mother uses the words without pity, forcing, and trapped to show that she and Maggie had no choice but to listen to Dee. The mother goes on to say that Dee would “shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand” (Walker 104). Dee was not trying to educate or even attempt to help her mother and Maggie understand what was being read. Dee only wanted to lord over them her superior intelligence and education, therefore boosting her own ego.
The high position you had desired in a company will also be absolutely out of the question. Women are kept completely out of all higher business and even more skilled production. Actually, women are encouraged to not work at all, and become "homemakers", staying at home to cater to the hard-working men. I think that this is disgraceful, but nothing can be done about it; I am sorry to say. Even more astounding, women and their families are actually given benefits from the government such as money for having more than six children!