ISU Purposeful Pauses Character There are two main characters that the story revolves around in. The first character is Eva, the mother of a young psycho killer and Kevin, her son. The relationship between the two distinct individuals is quite exquisite because the relationship refines both love and hatred. In my opinion, both characters, especially Eva is bipolar in many parts of the novel because she is extremely happy at a moment and she would be extremely sad at another point. For example, when she was conceived with Kevin, she had undying hatred for the fetus but at the same time she marvels at the miracle of life and prepares herself to take are of the child.
Shahrazad’s wanted to show King Shahriyar’s that not all women are the same, and she’s also to bring the King back into perspective. In Shahrazad's story women to appear authoritarian. For example, the tailor's wife who was crazy enough to stick a bone in the hunchback's mouth and she quickly takes charge of the situation. She says, ‘Your cries are of no avail’, we must do something. The tailor ‘whimpered', while his wife instructs him on her fake plot (Page 24).
Ibsen shows in the play that Hedda wants to be the powerful person in the family and lead a man’s life of power. Ibsen deals with the issue that women have very little freedom in this time and demonstrates how Hedda would like to have power and some freedom like men do. This is shown continually in a variety of ways. The first is how Hedda talks about, but with circumlocution, about sex and intimate ideas that were not to be talked about openly on a stage. This is shown when Hedda and Judge Brack talk in the living room about how Judge Brack could have turned up earlier but he would have found Hedda up in her room dressing.
She also tries to ally with them when she says ‘I’d like to bust him myself’, she is referring to Curley and says how she also hates him too. In addition to this candy says ‘curley’s wife can move quiet. I guess she had a lot of practice though’ meaning she is always after men behind curley’s back that she has got very skilled and can leave without anyone
In Eudora Welty’s “Why I live at P.O.”, Sister, the narrator, tries to alter the viewpoints of the reader to shape their interpretations to match the bias and the animosity towards the family. People often allow their perceptions to be influenced by a self-serving bias that can jade the depth of reality. In her reality, Sister is the victim that gets ridiculed by her family especially her sister Stella-Rondo whom she harbors a jealousy. Sister claims her life was “fine” before Stella-Rondo shows up and interrupts everything. She describes Stella-Rondo be inconsistent and unstable based on her being spoiled when they were children.
What conveys the behavior as acceptable most to Bone is the way her mother learns about the abuse and refuses to leave Glen. Bone convinces herself she is “trash” and that it’s her fault and she deserves it. Glen would sometimes justify his beatings as discipline. Bone was filled with self-hate. There were times where Bone recalls “afterward, Mama would cry and wash my face and tell me not to be so stubborn, not to make him so mad” (Allison 110) which places the blame completely on Bone.
“He played with me the way that I played with my dolls” (Ibsen 747-748). Nora informs her husband Torvald how her father used to treat her in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House. The idea of women being used as a men’s toys is a common theme in both A Doll House and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. Both Nora Helmer and Edna Pontellier, the heroines of these works, are constantly being controlled by the men in their life which leads them to committing their drastic final actions. Nora’s abandonment and Edna’s suicide are the only way that these women are able to assert control over their own lives and take a step out of social norms.
Allison Flynn English 204 Prof. Brophy November 28, 2012 Marriage; the everlasting unity of a woman and a man. It is the quintessential sign of love and devotion to another human being. Husbands and wives share and construct a life together. They build upon their feelings and mold their emotions into an understanding structure of unison. However, sometimes wives become stifled by their husband’s controlling hand.
“Marriage is the fundamental, cross-cultural institution for bridging the male-female divide so that children have loving, committed mothers and fathers.” She explains that this is absolutely necessary for a child to be happy, and grow up in a normal environment. It is the union of man and woman that creates social harmony and economic stability in a rocky society. “Marriage is our attempt to reconcile and harmonize the erotic, social, sexual, and financial needs of men and women with the needs of their partner and their children.” It is extremely important to keep the tradition of our idea of marriage for the children, because a household with one parent, two dads or two moms, is not what children deserve. It is the responsibility
The husband’s is the head of the home, and the wife is supposed to follow him fully with her own life. A wife’s devotion to her husband in puritanical lifestyle was much greater than in any other. Religious faith is also regarded highly in Puritan settlements, and had Bradstreet’s shown this more her work would have been a perfect portrayal of Puritanical lifestyle. Taylor’s on the other hand, evenly shows both of the puritan views. His use of metaphors almost disguises the true meaning of some of his work.