For example the “evil” stepmother, Margarethe’s actions performs are inherently evil, and rude towards her stepdaughter, but because she is a widow struggling to ensure that she and her two daughters survive. This novel challenges the fairy tale idea that the most physically appealing character has the most interesting personality and has the most interesting story to tell. Clara is kept hidden in her home first by her mother and later by herself. As a child, she was kidnapped and held for some reasons, but she believed she was captured by water-spirits and turned into a changeling. After her mother dies,
She was the princess of the house and that is how everyone treated her. I tried to make Adele help me to raise the children while I took care of their father since his condition started to deteriorate. My cousins, Diana and Mary moved into our new house along with their husbands and children. By that time Edward grew sicker and blinder while Adele never found time to care for Edward Jr. and Mary
It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me” (137) Gatsby is telling of how Daisy Buchanan is no longer loyal to Tom and how she now wants him back because he has run into money. Through Daisy, F. Scott Fitzgerald use of this character to exposes the new class that only wants to party and spend money. Daisy herself is old money locked in to the life of fortune.“But what gave it an air of breathless intensity was that Daisy lived there-it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him. There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motorcars and of dances who’s flowers were scarcely withered” (155-156). This is proof that Daisy is in it for the money and is now leaving Tom Buchanan for Jay Gatsby.
In the time of Gilead, the women were taken from their homes where they were brainwashed by speeches from their “Aunts” who argued that “such a social order ultimately offers the women more respect and safety then the old, pre-Gilead society offered them” (Sparknotes). In their new age, they’re simply used to run errands and bear children in the homes of Commanders that have trouble conceiving with their wives. They are fed small bits of information on what is going on in the Republic and are expected to be content with just that. Offred spends a great amount time thinking of her old life with her husband, Luke, and their young daughter. Then, one night her Commander asks to see her privately where they play Scrabble (which is illegal because in Gilead, women are not allowed to read) and she is allowed to look at old magazines; to conclude these secret encounters, the Commander asks Offred to kiss him.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House ends on either a very negative note, or a very positive note depending upon how one views such situations. At the end of the story, Nora Helmer leaves her oppressive, belittling husband, and children - who are hardly her children - behind to rediscover and educate herself. Ibsen states, “The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong; natural feeling on one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her.” (Ibsen. 409) Nora’s situation was a very unique one with many tunnels and slides to be trekked. Her exit was a fully rational, completely acceptable action.
In comparison, throughout ‘A Doll’s House’ we pick up hints that Nora is a secretive woman and later come to realise that like Mrs Arbuthnot she has being hiding a large and important secret from her loved ones, and that is that she has taking a secret loan out in her husband Helmer’s name which presents woman to be extremely devious. The fact that woman had to hide their secrets demonstrates they would have been looked upon as more shameful than a man because of their lower status. In ‘A Woman of No Importance’ Wilde presents woman in contemporary society to be of a much lower class than men by constantly mentioning how woman are a lot less under achieving than most males and that it is the way that men like society to be. “But good women have such limited views on life.” By Lord Illingworth saying this to Gerald whilst
“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.
His sisters, First Corinthians and Lena, whom author Toni Morrison keeps in the background of the novel’s main events, are suddenly transformed into deep, complex characters. The two sisters, who have spent their lives in Dr. Foster’s parlor making fake roses, refuse to be aristocratic sweatshop workers any longer. The fact Corinthians works as a maid even though she has acquired a college degree does not make her feel inferior but rather it liberates her socially. Furthermore, the fact that she finds true love outside of her upper class social status shows that Morrison is making an attack on class consciousness. Lena’s revolt comes out during her confrontation with Milkman.
In the nineteenth century Americans had a different way of thinking, when it came to the idea of respect and freedom. It was not inhumane to own another human or treat your wife like a maid. Partially because of the lack of women’s rights, society easily manipulated and conformed females. This analysis applies to Louise Mallard, a main character in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopins, a wife who is unsatisfied with her marriage and is looking for freedom outside her household. Louise Mallard learns her husband Brently Mallard apparently was killed in a train accident.
Miss Havisham controlled every aspect of her life and gave Estella very little freedom. Miss Havisham is very bitter after she received a letter from Compeyson and realized that he defrauded her on her wedding day. Her wedding dress symbolizes her inability to let go of her dispicable past, which is parallel to her house, which still has the wedding cake on her table. Estella treated Pip with disdain and constantly makes fun of him because she was raised and told to do so by Miss Havisham. When Miss Havisham invited Pip to her house, she whispered to Estella, “Well?