The novel begins with her creating an in-depth tale of fiction titled The Trials of Arabella, which she takes very seriously. While putting her all into this, she barely has time to engage her younger cousins’ and takes into offense when they treat it as a joke. This adult-like passion in shown in the first chapter, during rehearsal of the play that she is directing where it reads, “this was precisely why she loved plays, or hers at least;
Despite being written during patriarchal Jacobean society, the protagonist is a female, which is was highly unusual in those days. Of course this protagonist is Lady Macbeth. Throughout the play, through Lady Macbeth's actions we are forced to believe that she is evil. In contrast, the novel John Steinbeck tells a story of dreams, hopes and loneliness. We are introduced to a majorly significant and complex character, named Curley’s wife.
* I am going to compare the themes of two short stories, “I Stand Here Ironing” and “Everyday Use”. “I Stand Here Ironing” is written in a participating narrator point of view. Her theme is a basis of motherhood. She claims as though the position of a mother and how society expects to be is truly just a discovery of how to overcome obstacles. It also focuses on the points of guilt and regret in her life as a mother and how she feels that there is guiltiness within her because of the absence she has made within her daughters’ life.
In literature, we are able to view what were the roles of women years ago. Women were not expected to work, and their only future was to be married and have children, and some marriages were loveless marriages. This is exactly what happened to the women in these short stories; they were repressed and were unhappy with their lives: The “Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin. In both stories, authors portray the story of two women that have different stories, but with almost the same type of problems. The similarities and differences from both stories are that both women are in unhappy marriages, the theme of the stories, the irony, the symbolism, they were written using the third-person point of view, both had loving husbands, and the end of both stories are sad and tragic.
Despite this difference, they are equally influenced by their mothers' philosophies, each sharing a desire to break away from their routine lives. Unfortunately, Hulga and Rose do not realize that what gives birth to this craving is also what makes them ill-equipped to handle the situations that set them on their individual courses of transformation. 2) The characterization of our protagonist Connie is vital to an understanding of her ripeness for seduction in Joyce Carol Oates' short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Connie's youth and vanity, coupled with her antagonistic relationship with the members of her family, effectively set the stage for her seduction by the older Arnold Friend. 3) In Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People," the cynical, rude, and world-weary Hulga believes herself to be on such a high philosophical and intellectual plane that she is without illusion.
Arushi Ghai Ms. Meehan ENG 3U0-D October 22, 2012 Exploring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper Influenced by women’s lives in the 1800’s A short story author of the eighteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is famous for her tough life and her personal stories such as The Yellow Wallpaper. A short story that includes gothic element, with a story of a women who has a nervous disorder and is controlled by her husband and is not allowed to do what she loves which is write. Gilman certainly proved herself as an creative writer, with the capability to create the life of a girl with issues and is depressed and unhappy. However with a closer read of the text, it becomes apparent that many of the themes and issues raised
Wilde explores the subject of morality frequently within the play and the conflicting ideas surrounding the topic. Wilde particularly explores the idea of women ‘falling from grace’. This can be seen in the character of Mrs Arbuthnot. The character is quite obviously a good, strong woman who has taken her misfortunes in stride and not let them bring her down too much, as well as raising her son to also be a good person. Many people would argue that the blame for her misfortune should solely lay on Lord Illingworth, who, it is obvious to the audience, used her for his own pleasure and satisfaction, abusing her love and trust.
Women’s opinions are silenced by the rules, norms and perspectives of the dominating patriarchal society. They have lost their individuality as a human being. This story is about a very unusual day in the life of an extraordinarily virtuous woman who, having otherwise sacrificed life and limb for her family for years had enough self-respect and self-esteem left to take advantage of a fleeting fortuitous circumstance and temporarily break out of the box of her usually studious and exemplary way of life. The story takes place in the early 1890s, when the society was dominated by patriarchy. The role played by men and women in the society were poles apart.
http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html The Women at English Literature Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Brontë) The role of Jane Eyre is an excellent example on the view and manners of women in the Victorian Period. She is resigned, but already have personal thoughts and pursues. She is a middle-class worker, with no actual family and no prospects, at the beginning, of improvement. But, because of her personality, she manages to transform her life in many ways. If she were a "kind" child, by the eyes of Mrs. Reed, she would never go to Lockwood school; she were able to grow up in terms of knowledge in the school, because she had the need of being liked by others and was strong enough to improve herself in many ways; she, by herself, took a chance when announcing to be a governess.
This resulted in the surging frustration in Elsa, as she highlighted the fact that there is nothing set in the foundations of a marriage that takes away a woman’s liberty to express herself. Both in the main plot and subplots, the play portrays different forms of conflict that draw our attention and the author uses these conflicts to give a representation of women’s rights to express themselves freely. One of the conflicts the author uses is the woman versus husband conflict. Katrina’s situation typifies the oppressed married woman. Through Elsa’s comments, one can see the women’s rejection of such treatment.