In the tale of The Wife of Bath and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, my attention is brought to two specific characters. These characters are the Wife of Bath and Lady Bertilak for being so powerful as women and showing dominance over men. These stories were written in medieval times when women were worthless. Back then church and place of living were together. In the church women were supposed to be gentile and virtuous.
In the case of Connie’s mother, she rejected Connie’s attitudes because it often went against the patriarchal society's code of conduct. For example, when Connie glanced into a mirror, her mother always scolds: “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty?” (Oates 270). However, her mother treated June differently, by praising June all the time, “June did this, June did that, she saved money and helped clean the house and cooked” (Oates 271). June is another victim of patriarchal oppression just like Connie’s mother, a typical “house wife”.
The unequal distribution of domestic responsibilities has held women back for generations; it still today continues to hinder women’s progression in the work-place. It seems like everyone thinks mum will stay at home and do the dishes, her little boy will grow up to become a big, strong man but not her daughter, of course, she is far too busy washing her own children’s dishes. But it is not just women who suffer sexism, men do also. For example: Shelia’s Wheels sell cheaper car insurance to women only, and they say it's because statistics show women to be safer drivers. Would it would be fair for a bank to offer men better rates on loans if stats showed that men were better at paying back loans than women were, utterly ludicrous.
Morgan le Fay, Lady Bertilak, and the Virgin Mary, help develop the overall themes of the work by forcing the Gawain to question his ideals. Morgan le Fay and Lady Bertilak, the magical old woman and the beauty, are characterized as the male hero’s opponents. They manipulate but rely on his final choice, and are protected by their social status in Bertilak’s court. Both Morgan and Lady Bertilak are condemned in Gawain’s angry speech for stepping outside what he expected and for challenging his conflicting ideals. Gawain’s lady love, Mary, on the other hand, is the constant guide and source of comfort to which he may always turn.
The Grandma: The grandma in Flannery O'Conner's short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is created to resemble the stereotype of a classy, obnoxious, southern, old woman that everybody seems to have in a family. She thinks that she is better than others and cares for nobody but herself. In other words she is extremely hypocritical because she puts on a face and pretends to be this high class, posh woman when all that she is Bailey's mother. Some argue that she had a moment of grace at the end of the story but I argue that she was just trying to convince the misfit to let her go. For she barely acknowledged that her own grandchildren were about to be killed.
In the attempt for the new world to get liberty, society continually pushed the bounds of morals which created new views on life. Eliza as a very independent woman of her time she wanted more than the social structure of what marriage offered women during this time. She saw that marriage was the consumption of a woman’s freedom, which for this time all women were restricted by society by all male figures either married or not married. Eliza really missed out on the virtuous of the joining of the two souls into a marital bliss. Virtue has changed over the years, but marriage is still today seen as the old ball and
Very silly choice if you ask me’. She is very different to other parents because normal parents will complement their child even though they were horrible but Gwen instantly lists all the negatives factors of the play and say Meg was terrible. Gwen’s continuous nagging creates a barrier between her and Meg which Gwen is not able to get out of her domestic world. Furthermore, when Gwen was complaining to Jim that she did not have her keys, Jim tries to convince Gwen that he does not have the key but she tips all the contents of her handbag on the floor which shows she is in a very irrational nature. Gwen has a tendency to repeat a lot of words in order to get a message across which also can show anxiety, especially when she says ‘No.
All in the family: The main character Archie Bunker had a natural dislike to anyone that was not white or did not think the same as he. His wife, Edith was the typical and ideal 1950’s wife, always catering to her husband’s demands regardless of how sexist they were. I think Archie Bunker made people realize how truly stupid racism and stereotyping is, along with opening up a dialogue that had never been addressed on television. The program introduced social realism along with controversy, blunt language to the sitcom at the same time as preserving the gene’s heart of the domestic family. During one episode Sammie Davis JR plays himself.
I believe that when they first got married there was some kind of love in their relationship, but when they realized they could not conceive a child Don Elias blamed his wife. Even though it was most likely he was the infertile one, he treated her as if all she was good for was to take care of him like a maid. This is what made her a hard, bitter old woman. Dona Matilida believes it was her fault, and feels guilty about not being able to provide him with a child he so greatly desired. This caused her to turn a blind eye to what he was doing around town with other women.
Save the turf’ this shows us how the Mundy sisters are trying to envelope the fact that they are not stable as in that society it was patriarchal and needed a man to run the household as Jack is unwell they are unable to rely on him so he is more of burden on them . We can get a sense of injustice within the sisters as they feel they are treated unwell by Kate. Kate who is the dominate sisters within the family she has taken on both roles of bread winner and the mother figure and leaving the sisters to be filling in the gap of the male roles. ‘Two unpaid servants’ Agnes who is voicing for not just herself but Rosie as well gives us the feeling that she is dominant with Rosie or even more of a mother figure to her . ‘Rose and I’ this gives us a feeling of partition between the sisters as Agnes and Rosie have created a unit, this gives the audience the image of love and desperation as the sisters are affected by their financial situation as well as their personal .