As the Beatles would say, money cannot buy love. Love cannot be for sale and thus, love is a priceless emotion. The marriage between Daisy and Tom Buchannan in Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, gives evidence to this fact. Daisy decided to marry Tom due to society views, lifestyle factors, and money stability. Although she loved Gatsby, the brutal reality flashed upon her eyes and forced her to stay together with Tom until the very end of the novel and possibly, beyond.
Donna Woolfolk Cross explains in her article, "Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled" that propaganda shapes our attitudes on thousands of subjects by tactics such as name-calling which "consists of labeling people or ideas with words of bad connotation" (Cross 210). Aunt Lydia uses name-calling by stating that these women were lazy sluts and explains how important and how much better childbirth is in Gilead in comparison to the old days. Her manipulative speech is what blocks the handmaids from thinking, only to react unquestioningly. Cross's article explains that glittering generalities "try to get us to accept and agree without examining the evidence" (Cross 211). Aunt Lydia's use of glittering generalities and convincing tone of voice makes these women accept whatever she defines them as, giving no reason to think otherwise.
With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful. Edith dreamed of being a celebrity, she wished to be a perfect girl, and to live in a perfect world "in which only married women had babies, and in which men and women stayed married forever." The shacks in which Eddie grew up were less than desirable, and supposedly thought of as contemptible, by people of a higher social class. When Edith moved to the boarding house, with set meal times, she was quite ashamed to think of how people living in the shacks didn't have meal times, they simply found any food they could and ate by themselves when they were hungry. The potato-chip plant that Eddie worked at
Motherhood and marriage is seen to be a key factor in the society of which The Bell Jar is set ,and is portrayed as one of the things that supresses female identity when Esther is asked to be “Mrs Buddy Willard” as if she is owned by Buddy and not her own person. Even though Top Girls is set in 1980’s England while Margret Thatcher is Prime Minister, it shows direct correlations to the ideas shown in The Bell Jar. Just as the bell jar itself portrays motherhood and marriage to be a hindrance to Careers In the form of Dodo Conway, Top Girls protagonist Marlene symbolises the other option women have in the choice between a career and a family. Marlene, unlike her sister Joyce, is shown to have given up her child for the chance to pursue a career as if having both is impossible; a lot like Jaycee is in The Bell Jar. This essay will argue that In both texts motherhood and marriage is shown to be a hindrance to both women’s careers and their female identity.
Given these choices, the girls bring forth a sense of independency. In his article, Poniewozik declares that at the end of The Prince & Me, Paige secures both her dream job and her prince. This shows Hollywood’s subliminal manipulation to brainwash feminists by offering Hollywood princesses a chance to change their own destinies, but not completely throw out the pedestrian ‘girly’ details that make these films fairy-tales. As cited by Poniewozik in his article, “You can have the girly dream of glass slippers and true love… as well as the womanly ideal of self-determination and independence…”. Poniewozik then continues to explicate the fact that there are a new set of ideals Hollywood princesses must follow to please both fantasy and feminism.
Myrtle started acting like a rich person just because of a material object. This is materialistic because Myrtle acts rich just because of a dress. Myrtle shows her materialistic qualities when she says “It’s just a crazy old thing; I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”(pg31) This leads to Myrtle thinking of George in a materialistic manner in the next example. Because George didn’t have enough money to buy a fancy new suit for his wedding day he borrowed one from someone. When Myrtle finds out about this she gets mad at George.
(23.86-87) Aunty sees the Finch name like an exclusive brand – it’s valuable when you can only find it at Bloomingdale’s, but make it available at Wal-Mart and it’ll seem cheap. Aunt Alexandra’s obsession with “What Is Best For the Family” (13.22) – in Scout’s ears, Aunty often speaks in Capital Letters Of Doom – is part of her more general way of classifying people by family heritage. Aunt Alexandra, in underlining the moral of young Sam Merriweather's suicide, said it was caused by a morbid streak in the family. Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, "It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty." Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.
This concept is shown by Daisy, in the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who personifies this trait extraordinarily well. Human relationship are impacted by materialism, because the wealthier someone is or isn’t, determines, subconsciously, how one acts towards them. Daisy, the most desired person in the story, looks at the world through very materialistic eyes. Nick, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Gatsby were in a very LAVISH hotel room in the plaza hotel; where Tom and Gatsby were having a fight over Daisy. Gatsby said, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me,” (130).
Find out more... Thus if women workers were not beingencouraged politically as an economic asset then child care policy provisionwas also diminished. Here Bowlbys ideas fueled policy through popularisingimages of home based child care and family values by experts. Rutter laterinfluenced changes through his findings of multiple attachment making inchildren - although stressed that continuity of attachment was important. Hewas in support of child day care as long as it was continuous and high quality,although a preference of parental care was suggested by Rutter.
I cohere with no, and as times change, and women seek equality amongst the world, a sense of equality amongst relationships should also be found. This has already been seen to take its toll amongst the newer generations, and it will not be long until it is seen as essential for a relationship, and the old ways become irrelevant. Works Cited Goodman, Ellen. “When a Woman Says No.” Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric, and Handbook. Ed.