Panttaja aim in her article is to convey to us that Cinderella was not without allies. Rather than being motherless, she is constantly being guided by her mother. She describes Cinderella as being crafty, dishonest, and impatient. She goes on to say that it is our assumption
Using numerous examples and details, Bettelheim is able to create a logical analysis of Cinderella. Focusing most of his claims on the effects of sibling rivalry and how it ascertains to young children in their developmental psychological stages. The author deliberates on a developing topic of sibling rivalry and how it applies to the fairy tale. He believes that the characters in the story have relevance to present day families and their children, in particular, younger siblings. Cinderella herself being, a sibling to awful step-sisters, is forced to be their personal slave, thus starting the rivalry between the characters.
These stories, "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen and "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin both depict women who carry a lot of emotion from the beginning to the end of the story. They all react to a time when women in their day should not act in the way that they reacted. The carry the stigma that women is to be obedient to their husbands, or their father if they were unmarried. Nora and Mrs. Mallard reacted to their separate situations in a rational, but independent choice; even if society seemed to disapprove of the way they lived their lives. In the story, “A Doll’s House”, we have Nora living with a secret and trying not to let her husband, Torvald Helmer know.
For example Nora being treated like a doll/toy instead of a human being/wife, both by her husband and father. Nora’s environment making her the way she was versus her actually learning herself was an example. This particular exert from the play was quite interesting to me, because it drew me into it from the very beginning, and left me wanting more at the end. This play is a prime example of many people’s lives even in today’s society. Woman still go through this.
In her story, The Awakening, the protaginist, Edna Pontellier is an unsure housewife with different opinions on her life and the other lives around her. She has to struggle to restore the falling relationships around her with her friends, children and also her husband. Contray to what is usual, Edna is almost against the fact that she must remain loyal to her family and duties of wife and mother and respected women in society. 3rd N: In Colleen McElroys, The Princess, multiple fairy tale women are chosen to reflect different types of meanings. In the poem, the tone changes from hope to despare.
Due to the nonexistence of a higher authority or family member at Bly, the governess in the Turn of the Screw by virtue of Victorian society was the primary caretaker of the children and the household. The information the prologue provides about the governess depicts the predisposition that she could be vulnerable as she is a “flattered anxious girl … With no previous experience”. However, she may be in awe of Harley Street and the grand estate of Bly, overwhelmed by her surroundings, she may not necessarily be too frightened to tell her story reliably. James’s style of writing in the novella creates room for the readers to view the governess as frightened and vulnerable whilst on the other hand certain and confident. The governess’s adoration of the uncle after visiting him at Harley Street and her belief that he needed her reflects the governess’s naivety.
Jane Eyre is essentially a negative critique of Victorian social structure. Through the use of Jane as an ambiguously classed governess, Charlotte Bronte can effectively critique the standards of the time. Jane's largest barriers in achieving what she wants are her low to middle class and the prejudices held against her because of it. Without the inclusion of these obstacles, the novel would have no driving force, and so the interest is indeed found in the depiction of social class. Jane Eyre is part of the bildungsroman genre, meaning that the protagonist has to overcome a variety of obstacles, both psychological and moral in their journey from childhood to adulthood, and every hurdle which Jane has to jump is rooted either directly or indirectly in social order.
A Doll House Project #2-DRAMATIC STRUCTURE/ MAIN IDEA Meghan Sigwarth March 12, 2008 From the start, the title, A Doll House, evokes images of a beautiful, picture perfect house with a model family to live the charmed life. In this play the word doll is used metaphorically to help describe Nora, the play’s main character and protagonist. It is her story, and it is in her that we see the most significant change. Now people play with dolls to explore their imaginations and escape reality, but Nora actually lives in that false reality, a plastic little Barbie to entertain her husband Torvald. Similarly, as a doll can’t talk or hold opinions, Nora is not allowed to show her true feelings and must pretend everything is perfect to make “Torvald darling” happy.
So why are females so bombarded with pressure to live up to what society says a woman should be like? For a very long time in American history, women were told that they should be feminine. They were told that there place in life was to be at home and raise a family and to look pretty for their husbands. Little girls were given Barbie dolls and games called Mystery Date and Miss Popularity (Peril). All of these things helped conform little girls into thinking that their role in life was to be something pretty for a man to look at.
This is the point or message Shaw is trying to prove or show making the role of women very important. In the play we are introduced to Mrs. Higgins professor Higgins' mother. Mrs. Higgins a lady in her sixties. In the play when she is introduced to Liza Doolittle and learns of the plan to experiment with the young girl, she has concerns for the girl and her future. “No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the problem of what is to be done with her afterwards.” (Shaw, 65) Mrs. Higgins shows she doesn’t see the girl as some experiment un like the men in the play who do not seem to view women as the same value.