The Discrimination against Women Identities Throughout history, female were considered lesser beings and nothing more than the property of their husband. In the short story, Blank Spaces by Joanna Cockerline, the acknowledgment of female being inferior creatures in comparison to men is highlighted. Struggle against misfortunes, Elizabeth is oppressed by the social inequality due to the fact that she is a girl. In Blank Spaces, the social inequality implied by the narrative severely impacts Elizabeth’s career hierarchy, character traits, and life experiences. Like many feminist writer, Cockerline focuses her emphasis on how social norm discriminate women by inhibit their job opportunities.
In the story, “A Doll’s House”, we have Nora living with a secret and trying not to let her husband, Torvald Helmer know. She is so distraught, that she tells a friend, the same friend who hired her in place of another employee. That same employee is hurt and blackmails Nora about what she did. Nora does everything she can to plead with Krogstad not to tell Torvald, but in the end, he finds out. In the story, “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard learns of her husband’s death from her sister Josephine.
In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard has a “heart trouble” that apparently needs to be watched to some extent because Chopin wrote, “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 516). Though the reader is never really informed of what exact type of heart problem she has, the problem is influential enough to be
Her unsuccessful and violent father moved the family many times, and her older brother was favored by her grandfathers’ will. By growing up in this type of household, she thought that marriage life was dangerous for women. As she grew older, events in the lives of her family and friends only strengthened her views that marriage was often hazardous for women (Miller par 3). This influential time of her life proved to be for the better: this pushed Mary toward self-educating and to write. In her novel, “Mary: A Fiction” (1788), a women dies from fever after she accepts the hopelessness of her life.
A door that once kept her shut-off from the outside world, not shuts out society’s view of women and their place in the world. “Iv got out at last...in spite of you!” (70). The narrator of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' has been driven into psychological madness through the imprisonment of male dominance. Gilman's use of symbolism to portray patriarchal dominance, through locked doors and bared windows, has been an effective way to communicate the suffering and trapped feeling of women during the 19th century. While many women would be to afraid to question their role in society and in marriage, Gilman has created a strong female protagonist who overcomes her husbands authoritative
The Oppression and Repression of Women The narrator feels she and other women are trapped by the yellow wallpaper, she is also trapped in her room by her doctor husband, and trapped by society in her role as a woman. The story shows the social differences between men and women within society. The men are the doctors and make all the decisions about themselves while the women must accept their place in society and they are told what to do and not to do. The narrator’s husband prohibiting her to write is one example of this. Freedom and Confinement The narrator in the story for the most part is confined to her room while her husband is free to travel to his
On the other hand, Dottie’s sister Kit represented the “fear of failure” athlete. Kit’s character would break down under severe pressure, her ability to cope with emotions and moods rationally were uncontrollable. She always looked at the negative aspects instead of the positive ones by evaluating her
It reveals that her son was killed at war and that she is unable to surpass through her grief. It shows that she is so overcome by her grief that she is unable to act normally in social situations and that everything she sees, she somehow links it back to her dead son. It is Coral’s delusion that has led her to be very perceptive. Her yearning in Act 1 scene 3 is almost palpable. She is about to break.
As Mary’s brother Laurie ran way from home after the clash with their father Calvin Pye, their mother got sick. Since Calvin was very irritated with his children, life was somewhat lonely for Mary which eventually forced her to get close to Matt. An excerpt from novel as narrated by Kat can exemplify how solitude contributed in fabricating the bond between Kate and Matt: “Mrs Pye was in a really serious state that summer, and that worry about her, coming on top of everything else, was more than Marie could bear alone. So she turned for comfort to matt. If she’d had more friends, or if her mother had had family living near, or if Calvin hadn’t alienated the whole community … then maybe Marie would not have needed to turn so hard, so appealingly to Matt.
One of her major issues she is faced with is the death of her loved ones. She has trouble coping with the world when her father dies. Her father had been a controlling figure in her life which leads Emily into denial. While in denial she refuses to give up her father's corpse unwillingly to let go and accept change. Throughout the story Emily is depicted as a woman struggling with loneliness.