The Women of Waknuk The Chrysalids by John Wyndham illustrates women differently towards their husbands, and their family members. Women in Waknuk are pressured to be perfect. Most likely women like Elias Strorm’s wife, who was a beautiful young lady. Elias Strorm’s strict ways turned his wife into a withered, grey woman, who was almost glad to die one year after David’s father was born. This explains that such a society stifles life.
Mariam has been lonely her entire life and after her mom committed suicide she couldn’t have been so lonely. “’You can eat downstairs with the rest of us.’ He said, but without much conviction. He understood a little too readily when Mariam said she preferred to eat alone.” (40) Mariam had no family after Nana died, all she had was Jalil, her birthfather who treated her like she was adopted, like a harami.
Description of the Family Dynamics In the film “Precious” the family dynamics are nothing short of complicated and dysfunctional. The family’s dynamics are built around violence, aggression, and abuse. Clarice “Precious” Jones is a sixteen year old girl living in Harlem during the 1980’s. She lives with her mother, Mary, and is pregnant with her second child. Precious has been abused by her parents in many capacities for most of her life.
She has experienced traumatic events with her husband and daughters substance abuse. In addition, she was subjected to her husband verbally abusing the children. Recently her grandson who she is raising was arrested for stealing out of the store. She has negated to follow up with the doctor to deal with her mental health and is unknown if she was given a mental health diagnoses. She has a great relationship with one of her daughters while the other child is currently incarcerated.
Sierra Luers AP English 11 Period 3 Psychological Analysis of Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, the author of Ethan Frome, grew up in a privileged American family. At a young age she took interest in writing about the inside of her family’s social circle. At 23 she was married to a man from a well-established family. After thirty years of marriage she divorced him as he had serious emotional and depression problems. Wharton was even thought to have resented him for his incapability’s of the life she wanted , she felt tied down and stifled; the passion and romance had been long gone.
It was said that she was married to a man named Lewis Fell, but she later started dating a woman named Tyria Moore. The couple had a tumultuous but long term relationship that lasted a little over four years. Aileen and Tyria was had to go without a lot of times because they could not survive on Aileen's salary as a prostitute. Some people believed that she turned to murdering her clients and taking all the money they had in their wallets to supplement her income to take care of her and her girlfriend. Aileen was born into a life that some would say she didn’t have a fighting chance at having a great life from the beginning.
In Raney’s mind, Charles was placing blame on her, her family, and specifically, her mother who spent most of her time taking care of Uncle Nate. This caused Raney to leave Charles and stay with her Aunt Flossie for a period of time. This incident opened both their eyes about their communication and conflict issues and forced them to come up with a way to deal with their problems before it leads to a failed marriage. Marriage counseling seemed to be the answer for them in order to take the steps to resolute their problems. Most young couples have not been through long-term relationships before marriage.
She now bares the weight of her mother’s misfortune and ill-doing. Those strong puritan influences, civil obedience and harsh consequences molded her into the very woman she is today. Thirteen years have passed since the Scarlet Letter and Pearl lives happily ever after. The Scarlet Letter scenario should be a draining factor to Pearl, having to relive her mother’s pain and her inadequate childhood. She may feel as if her birth was a curse to her mother, and that it’s all her fault she lived with such disgrace.
She also decided to give more precedence to career rather than her family which in turn created a huge gap between herself and her family. As she became obsessed with her work, she began to overlook her family. In this way, the ambition for the top, the allotment of more time for work all contributed in weakening Kate’s family relationships. In the novel, Crow Lake it was also revealed how loneliness can bring two teens together through the relationship between Matt Morrison and Marie Pye. As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick.
She witnessed her father beat up her mother to the point that he would give her black eye or broken arm repeatedly. Marla even experienced her father’s abusive character when she was 17 years old; he came home one day and beat her up along with her mother. Possible treatments for Marla’s disorder would be through the following: Family Structure and Communication –family theorist might be interested in the conflict between Marla’s parents and they might see Marla’s symptoms as both a reaction and stimulus for her parents’ relationship/behaviors. The theorist would also seek to clarify the precise nature Marla’s relationship with each parent. Is she enmeshed with her mother or disengaged from her