Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity. This could suggest that she is only like this because she is bored, like it is something to do – something interesting for a change. She is constantly trying to get people to notice her. But, because of Lennie’s purity and innocence, he doesn’t see her in the way other men do – a sexual object. When Steinbeck quotes “And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him”, it is clear to the audience that Curley’s Wife is using her sexuality as an object to create some sort of excitement for herself.
Not being able to communicate or understand each other makes it hard to talk to one another. Communication is the key to a great marriage. First, communication between women and men are different. Women want their husbands to talk to them because it brings closeness and intimacy in the relationship. Eleanor Maccoby states, in reports from her own and others that “for women and for girls intimacy is the fabric of relationship, and talk is the thread from which it is woven” (110).
The word “lust” is one that is associated with sexual experiences. On the other hand, the emotional experiences, changes and struggles the main character undergoes are something that is not expected from the title of the story. Through the story’s use of vocabulary and sentence structure, theme, and representation of the narrator’s life overall, the irony of the short story’s title becomes clear. The narrator is like a delicate rose, and with each boy she becomes physical with, she loses a petal. Her experiences have seriously damaged any sure thoughts toward men.
Bradstreet also shows identity for the Puritan men that criticize her work because men had more talent and skill, which come in handy in the society, but she sees that it’s unfair. For the men in her community she talks in stanza five, denying her writings, claiming Bradstreet’s works are “stolen”, or else it was by chance”. She writes in her poem in stanza seven, “Men have precedence and still excel, it is but vain unjustly to wage war,” in the beginning of the poem, stanza two, “Fool I grudge the Muses did not part, ‘Twixt him and me that over fluent store". These lines show that Bradstreet felt that it was not fair because men and women had different roles. Ruiz 2 During the time women had to stay home and take care of the house hold things, meanwhile men did the labor, which Bradstreet wants men and women to have the same rights.
She aches to be pretty, but she soon learns that while beauty is desired in her homeland of Ayortha, all that glitters is not gold. Aza first lives in the town Amonta in her parents’ inn, the Featherbed. Life for her could be hard, especially when the guests are rude to her because of her ugly face, but she is mostly happy with her atmosphere of enclosure and protection from her parents. In the story she describes the guests of the inn as “sometimes friendly, but more often they were rude… Some didn’t want me to serve their food, some didn’t want me to clean their rooms.” However, here she could hide in the shadows of the inn and not have to worry about what lay outside Amonta, where people were rude but used to seeing Aza’s face. As a result of the atmosphere and behavior of travelers and townsfolk, Aza becomes very shy and hides whenever a new guest comes.
But although at first Frankenstein may give the reader the impression that women have very little impact in the novel, Shelley slyly uses them to deconstruct the power and control that men had been enjoying for years . She decorates her female characters with deceptive feminine virtues, in comparison with which Victor, and therefore men in general, appear prone to critical errors and loss of emotional control despite their position of power in society. She humanises the god-like image of Victorian men and, finally, she manipulates the gendering of Nature so often used during that era by prominent scientific men, to control Victor and reveal Shelley’s belief that women can be just
Or a pillow? Why is Browning making us think of alternative ways to kill Porphyria? That's really messed up. * Line 13: After entering soundlessly from the storm, Porphyria takes off her wet coat and hat, and lets her "damp hair fall." It's no accident that Browning uses the word "fall": that word has some pretty negative connotations.
I think this is because the phrase ‘The room was warm and clean‘ suggests that Mary tries to be a typical, housewife who tries to keep her husband happy. However, the writer suggests that this family may be too perfect and that maybe Patrick Maloney might not love his wife as much as Mary loves her husband. ‘She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over to make the drinks.’ The family seems, overall, quite loving ‘Now and again she would glance up at the clock, but without anxiety, merely to please herself with the thought that each minute gone by made it nearer to the time when he would come.’ Mary and her husband seem to be happy together and their life seems to be on a routine. ‘When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few minutes later, punctually as always, she heard the tyres on the gravel outside.’ This is described as if the same thing happens at the same time everyday.
and this is shown on the essay when she writes this ”If, by chance , I find another person more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, I want the liberty to replace my present wife with another one” Really, is sad but is the truth, men do think women’s are objects they can’t take and leave when they want and demand things and expect to received without giving. As I read the essay it was stupid to see that they didn’t realize that all the wife’s duties could also be done by men, like cleaning, working, taking care of the kids, and of course pleasing their wife’s when she
Anti-Patriarchal Views as Expressed by Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning’s poem, “My Last Duchess”, is a dramatic monologue that comments on the problems with the patriarchal society of the nineteenth century, which consisted of men working and dominating the social life while women existed only to serve their men, care for their children, and stay in the house and be pretty. Browning feels that this view not only makes women unhappy, but it prevents both men and women from achieving their potentials in life because they are so cast in their given roles. This poem is written in the form of the Duke of Ferrara talking to a servant of the father of the new woman whom he wishes to marry. He tells the servant of the reasons why his previous marriage did not work out, and in doing so specifies what he expects from this newly proposed marriage. Robert Browning uses the actions of the Duke of Ferrara, descriptions of the Duke’s late duchess, and style of courtship of the Duke in “My Last Duchess” to show that patriarchal society is an outdated and unfitting way to live.