I would of thought Ziegfield was loosing it, don't fix what's not broken. Although this was a bold decision, it turned out Fanny could in fact do it all. She had the audience in the palm of her hands with her long lagatto song about her man. This song has made her the unbelievable superstar she is today. Written by Maurice Yvain and lyrics by Channing Pollack, the song is about her man, that doesn't seem to be the best guy around but he's hers to keep and she loves him so.
How does Steinbeck encourage us to sympathise with and condemn Curley’s Wife? Curley’s Wife is a character who is used by Steinbeck to achieve three main aims in his novel ‘Of Mice and Men’. Firstly, she is a character used simply to advance the plot of the novel. Secondly, her short life story tells us about the reality of dreams that can never be fulfilled and reflects the harsh end to George and Lennie’s own dream. Finally, her marriage to Curley provides the reader with an insight into the place of women in 1920s American society and their growing struggle to reconcile the American Dream of equality with the patriarchal values of the American Household.
Mother To Son In the poem mother to son the author Langston Hughes is trying to relay to the reader the struggles of being poor and black in the oppressive 1920s. Hughes does this through the character of a black single mother who is trying to keep her son from giving up. The mother does this by emphasizing her own struggles she has encountered in her life and how through it all she has not let it get to her or keep her from pushing on and reaching goals and aspiring for better things and making use of what little she has. Hughes gives the reader a good feeling for the time period by using broken uneducated English in the poem which would have been the case had this African American single mother had really written the poem herself in the 1920s America. Hughes paints a picture of what it would have been like when the mother was talking to her son through thoughtful metaphorical words to emphasize these struggles and then does the same to really hammer home that even in spite of this she is till keeping her head up and reaching goals and making do with what she has and not letting it get to her.
Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” both contain strong puritanical views, but which of their compositions shows the lifestyle more clearly? Bradstreet’s work approaches the subject directly with riveting emotion, while Taylor’s uses countless metaphors to subtly express the same basic opinion. Even though both effectively showcase the same opinion, Taylor’s clearly has more of a Puritanical Edge that allows his to portray the lifestyle more strongly. Bradstreet’s does a very good job displaying her devotion to her husband, a major merit in Puritan lifestyle, but she fails to show the aspect of faith in the Puritan lifestyle. The husband’s is the head of the home, and the wife is supposed to follow him fully with her own life.
She describes how her own experiences with gay and straight relationships affect her views on marriage, as well as her feelings on what marriage symbolizes. Newman is frequently asked over and over again why she isn’t married to the father of her child whom she lives with. My feelings when she describes what is going on as she is asked lead me to believe she wants to be married. I believe a couple who lives together with children should be married. When Newman says, “I probably cried when the bride kissed her parents” and that she is “eating the entrée I checked off months ago” I feel she doesn’t just like weddings but wants one of her own.
In Hit, she talked about having more equality laws so wives and children could leave unhappy homes. This also required the women a right to vote. In Hit, she wrote, “[U]ntil women have a voice in making [laws], they must of necessity be imperfect, as are all laws, where … woman has had no voice in their making.” She also argued that marriage was a “contract” between “equal partners as she wrote, “No young lady, when she is being courted … for a moment supposes that her lover can … ever wish her to be his slave.” In April 1917, while the World War was going on, she offered Kaiser Wilhelm II her land to have a German American peace conference. Also in 1917, while in Washington, she fell on the steps of Capitol. She was 85 years old and never recovered from her fall on the Capitol steps.
In the poem “Medusa” gender conflict through control is also illustrated when she says: “a suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy”. This depicts that she feels ownership over her husband and wants him to “be terrified” if he does not obey her commands. However, in “Les Grands Seigneurs” the narrator conveys that after she was “wedded, bedded … a toy, a plaything … wife” she is nostalgic for the first three stanzas to how men were towards her before she was married as she is now powerless. We can depict that there was less gender conflict before she was married. Moreover, in “Medusa” powerlessness is also portrayed when she rhetorically questions herself “Wasn’t I beautiful?
Millay manipulates the poem to reflect as defiance as well as the individuality of this certain speaker. The first line(and title) of the poem alone contains multiple devices used to express the authors statement. The placing of the comma in “I, being born a woman and distressed” (1) replicates a statement usually made in legal documents. The sardonic tone leads readers to conclude that the speaker believes she is a woman by birth, not by choice. Millay uses the word “distressed” as a connection to the concept that all women are helpless; hence the familiar expression “Damsel in distress” originated in the Arthurian Legends and the idea of chivalry.
(Page 282 lines 127-130). She has been married multiple times which back in the medieval times and even now a day that is unacceptable. She is also looking for her sixth husband. Back in the old days being sexual active came only after one is married and not supposed to be for pleasure but to reproduce (Lines 69-75). She then compares herself to those who live by society the "right" way, those are perfect people and she is not perfect so she does as she pleases (Lines 105-120).
The Coquette The Coquette Hannah Fosters 1797 novel presents her critical female freedom and the politics of courtship and marriage within the restrictive confines of a conventional seduction novel. Through Eliza Wharton, Foster creates a woman who goes against the social conformity of a virtuous life questioning the restrictions marriage placed on women. In the eighteenth century women focused their lives on marriage, it determined their place in society, added wealth to the family, and ensured security to women while at the same time filled emotional connections to ones so called soul mate or husband. Eliza Wharton became the exception of the everyday eighteenth century woman. Her quest for herself and her determination in her personal