Katherine first conveys her message by describing the state of marriage life in those days, this is evident when she says: “A married state affords but little ease/ the best of husbands are so hard to please.” This warns unmarried women that marriage can only afford some ‘ease’. The word ‘afford’ shows that marriage cannot give you any more than ‘little ease’ as it cannot afford any more. As a woman, every woman dreams of a husband who is caring and understanding. These characteristics are classified as being the ‘best’ husband, but Katherine addresses to the unmarried women and tells them that their dreams might come true, as in, they might find the ‘best husband’ but the husband’s demands will be really high, and they would not be
2) How does Romeo describe the woman he loves in Scene 1? Refer to things like word choice. Connotation, tone figures of speech, and so on. Romeo describes the woman he loves by saying: ‘’She hath Dian’s wit.”- Here Romeo is comparing her to the Roman goddess Diana because she is chaste and does not want to marry. “O she is rich in beauty, only poor that when she dies, with beauty dies her store.” – Romeo is saying that she is beautiful, but it is a shame that she will not pass her beauty down to anyone because she does not want to have children.
Think of it as a candle, once you melt that candle there is no way to put it back together. This is true for both of the stories. In “The Rocking Horse Winner” the mother’s greed for money forces her son Paul to find ways to get more money in order to try to win over her love and attention. In the very beginning of the story it described a mother who “had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her; and she could not love them (Lawrence, 162).” The mother was always good at showing a respectable image to her friends about how she felt about her children though. It states that her friends say “She is such a good mother: She adores her children (Lawrence, 162).” Paul is determined to win his mother’s love by gambling and goes on a “mad little journey (Lawrence, 165)” in order to try to prove to his mother that he is lucky and she could love him.
Epikaste was called "that prize"(195) her own son unwittingly married. Some women are known for the deeds of their sons or husbands, but never for a heroic deed of their own, their personalities, and what they do themselves. It seems the only accomplishment women could achieve was being beautiful. Theseus "had no joy of"(195) the princess Ariadne because she died before this was possible. Homer makes it sound as if Ariadne's life was useless because she did not give Theseus pleasure.
Medieval women are typically considered to be young beautiful ladies who are damsels in distress, awaiting their knight to come rescue them. “The Canterbury Tales” reveals that this notion is far from the truth. Refuting this idea in the novel is The Wife of Bath. She is overtly manipulative by using her exuding sexuality. Her husbands, all five of them were teased with sex, but they had to provide luxuries that she desperately craved for.
Although ‘Mrs Dalloway’ is not so gender orientated, it too portrays women as the generally weaker sex. The social developments of the time period, known as the Jazz Age, also brought with it alterations in the way females dressed and behaved. Flappers, as they were called, became the new generation of young Western women in the 1920’s. They wore short skirts and excessive makeup, bobbed their hair, drove cars, smoked and drank; challenging traditional gender roles in any way possible. In ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Jordan Baker is representative of a flapper.
Symbolism Symbolism is very effective in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Birthmark”. Georgiana is portrayed as a very beautiful woman, but Aylmer, her husband, can only focus on her only flaw. She has a red, hand-shaped mark on her left cheek. This birthmark is the basis of symbolism for the entire story. One, it symbolizes imperfection and morality.
Explore the presentation of women in The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye. With emphasis on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925) and wider reference to J.D Salinger’s ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951), explore how women are represented across both novels. Fitzgerald largely ignores the experience of women in The Great Gatsby, which is symbolic in itself, but explores the representations of women in society at the time through its three main female characters - Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald often portrays women in the novel as corrupt, materialistic and reliant on men, exploring this idea through Daisy and Myrtle in contrast to the supposed independence women were experiencing during the 1920s, which is represented through Jordan Baker. In The Catcher in the Rye however, despite the fact women are also presented as materialistic at times, through Holden Caulfield J.D Salinger explores women as largely innocent and independent, rather than shallow beings who’s existence solely relies on the men in their lives.
It’s is amazing that the facts he refers to from the 19th century that were actually accepted as scientific evidence are laughed at today. Nobody in today’s world would say that women are less intelligent then men, simply because their brain is smaller in size. Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House also shows this how women were seen, however Ibsen also helps to change the way that women were perceived. The story centers around a young girl named Nora Helmer, who is constrained to society s view of her gender’s role, and desperately tries to find herself in the midst of it all. In the attempt to save her husband s life and pride, she secretly borrowed money to use for his recovery from a deadly illness.
This is ironic because the once poor uneducated flower girl has surpassed the social status of the women she once envied. Eliza's "Cinderella like" transformation is based on the gender roles placed by society. By Higgins manipulatively transforming this pauper into a princess, for his own personal pleasure, he creates the “ideal woman”. The plot of Shaw’s Pygmalion is no doubt the creation of woman, more specifically, the creation of a duchess from a vagrant. Higgins is shown in a god-like aspect where he plays the role of father and creator to Eliza, whereas Eliza is portrayed as an incompetent child who needs to be corrected and reshaped by man.