Hidden Passion’s In John Steinbeck’s short story “The Chrysanthemums” imagery and symbols are used to show the repressed feminine qualities, hidden passion and feelings of inequality in the main character Elisa Allen. Who is a strong, capable woman kept from social, personal and sexual fulfillment . Elisa is a homemaker living in Salinas Valley, California with her farmer husband Henry. Elisa is a lonely woman whose days consist of nourishing and growing “chrysanthemum” flowers in her fenced in garden. Steinbeck uses the “chrysanthemum” flower, the variation of her clothing, the way she interacts with her husband and the tinker as examples of symbolism.
In the same stanza, she uses possessive language like 'acquire' to show that women had to acquire basic needs for their family and also it can be meant how low women are within society. Furthermore, Sylvia Path describes that women are unseen, ignored and unnoticed just as mushroom which are growing on the loam. Again she tries to tell that the poem is belong for women from word 'soft' in stanza four. However, she uses contrast word 'heaving' to point the dilemma that is faced by women to get the right to speak up. The poem goes on to further correlate the relation between men who are the leader and the speaker in the society and how women are treated by men.
Steinbeck has given a suitable title to the story, “The Chrysanthemums,” which relates to Elisa as chrysanthemums symbolize both Elisa and the limited scope of her life. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and also unimportant; both are merely decorative and add little value to the world. Elisa is passionate and loving towards her chrysanthemums. She is smart, attractive and ambitious, but all these qualities go waste as she has limitations under which a married women lives. Henry Allen, her husband, clearly ignores her passion and care towards chrysanthemums.
Love and Purity within Rappaccini’s Daughter Abstract Many people spend their life looking for true love. Rappaccini’s Daughter is an example of an old age search for love and in this story this love has a great deal to do with purity as well. Giovanni felt a need to search for love in his life, and Beatrice was the one who caused him to seek her out. Love Even though Beatrice’s body is corrupt by Dr. Rapacinni, her beauty and soul stay pure. Beatrice is a gentle lady who treats even the poisonous of plants with tenderness.
In the end, Steinbeck conveys a sense of hopeless about his main character's plight, and though she may try to rise beyond her position, reality will always intrude and keep her entrenched in a suppressed role. "The Chrysanthemums" is the story of Elisa Allen, the wife of cattle farmer Henry Allen. Elisa works diligently in her garden, preparing this year's chrysanthemums, while Henry conducts business. As she prepares her flowers, a traveling handy man passes, and inquires as to whether Elisa might have some scissors that need sharpening or pots that require mending. She rebuffs him until he takes an interest in her chrysanthemums, explaining that he knows a woman up the road who would love to grow such flowers herself.
This indecency is a marker of their location within society, as well as their location in theological systems. Althaus-Reid undresses the roles of economy and sexuality in the construction of theology. The author also talks about Liberation Theology exploiting the work of poor women. Poor women became part of the fashionable spectrum of Liberation Theology as it subsumed their work even if it were high productive. Althaus-Reid offers an easy example to the Liberation Theology of the poor’s sexuality: when poor workers march together under the figure of Mary, they are God’s option for the poor but
This novel is an allegory because the way the female characters are treated is similar to the way women generally have been treated throughout history. In Animal Farm, there are female characters that are treated disrespectfully. Mollie is portrayed in a derogatory fashion. She is described as “Mollie, the foolish pretty white mare.” (pg.27) In the beginning of the book, Mollie is a favored animal who is treated much better than the others. She gets decorated with ribbons and bows on her mane and she’s fed special treats and lumps of sugar, while the other animals don’t get fed well, if at all that day.
The whole poems started during the time woman were tending to stay quite. She wrote the poem to express her opinion of a female’s voice in the society. She speaks in a worthless tone. In her view women were not different than men. Bradstreet also shows identity for the Puritan men that criticize her work because men had more talent and skill, which come in handy in the society, but she sees that it’s unfair.
But on a deeper level these changes are caused by her frustrated psychological state during the events and alterations occurring in her life without any warnings. The vegetable plot represents memories of summers at the dacha that she loved. It represented innocence, dreams and hope in survival and in the future. Anna’s attitude towards the plot at first was very caring and artful. That was her personality.
Beautiful words for a beautiful flower that unfortunately did not have the chance to blossom into a little diva. The pain she felt is one feeling that is only felt by her, to understand that feeling you have to go through that same situation yourself but it’s a situation that is not wished upon anyone. In the first stanza the poet refers to the stillborn as “beautiful flower” which I completely agree upon as that is how babies whether alive or stillborn should be referred as. She uses metaphor in the first stanza, as a comparison between a stillborn and a beautiful flower. Just as how a flower has petals that are big and bold and stand out so too does she associate it with a baby that has eyes that are big and bold but no longer hold life in them.