And upon the knight’s return with the old woman, the queen is told that “women wish to have sovereignty as well over her husband as her love and to have mastery over him,” (1042) and again here we see the subject of power coming up. Now after all is done, and the knight is spared, the old lady and the knight marry, and the old lady makes one prayer to Jesus to send all women, “And may Jesus Christ send us husbands meek, young, and lusty, and grace to outlive them that we wed.” (1260) All these illustrations from the beginning to the end portray a power struggle between the two genders. It is interesting to
Her husbands, all five of them were teased with sex, but they had to provide luxuries that she desperately craved for. The underlying theme of The Wife of Bath relates to power struggles rather than spousal equality in marriage. The Wife of Bath gives an insight into a hard working semi-independent woman of the Middle Ages. She is semi- independent because she is dependent upon her husbands for material goods. "In the words of the Wife of Bath, God has given women three talents- deceit, weeping, and spinning" (Power 118).
Katherine has used Rhyming couplets which makes her poem sound catchy, and iambic pentameter gives the poem a nursery rhyme feel. Philips believes that life of a married woman is even worse than that of a single woman. Married women have to worry about pleasing their husbands. They have to feed the crying children and maintain house and home, whereas Single woman never have to suffer the “pangs of childbirth” or listen to “children’s cries for to offend their ears”. 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’.
Peeta and Katniss haven’t talked since they have gotten home. When Katniss is at home, the President is there to speak to her. He says that she has basically started a rebellion ever since she pulled out those berries. Now, she must convince the whole nation it was out of an act of love. When she and Peeta leave for the Victor Tour, the bond and become very close.
Artemis was promised many gifts from Zeus because of her actions (Heroes 32). She asked to remain a maiden forever, and never marry. She wanted a bow and arrows just like her brother’s but in silver, and an embroidered deerskin tunic, fifty ocean nymphs to sing to her, and twenty wood nymphs to hunt with her. She also asked for a pack of hounds, fierce and swift ones. She wanted the mountains for her special places and one city.
So even though it is acknowledged that she is productive and dutiful she is relegated to only helping with the flower garden as her husband work with the more manly duties of rounding up the horses and selling heads of cattle to buisness men. Elsie is at her strongest when in her garden even going so far as to recieve complements about her green thumb from her husband. “You’ve got a gift with things,” Henry observed. “Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across." ( Steinbeck 2011, p 7) and yet in the same breath she is cut down by Henry telling her she wishes she could work in an area of the farm that she is not allowed to.
In fact, it could be argued that Alisoun is exactly what the medieval Church saw as a “wicked woman,” and she seems to be very much proud of the fact—not to say that she doesn't have plenty to say when justifying her lifestyle. In fact, she has a tendency to imitate the ways of churchmen and scholars by backing up her claims with quotations from the Bible—maybe even mockingly, though that is debatable. The Wife
Delaram Yazdani American Literature 1 Final Exam 21 February 2013 Pearl, From Elf to Treasure The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story of puritanical society, a kind of society which confronted Hester for having committed the sin of adultery, and expelled her from the community by making her to wear the Scarlet Letter “A”. Pearl is the outcome of the sin. She represents the Scarlet Letter, or better to say, she is the living symbol of the Scarlet letter. However, she meant treasure to her mother, a gift from the Almighty God, and brought liveliness and happiness to her life. ““God gave me the child?” cried she.
THE UNEXPECTED The Wife of Bath assaults the restraints of the society on women. She builds up her own belief system and attacks the other beliefs by criticising the church and the priest’s view about the virginty. She stands up for the idea that how can virgins occur, when there is no multiply and increase. She protects this idea, also, by saying ‘God commanded us to increase and multiply’. Virginity is seen as a kind of perfection and it is not ordered but recommended.Virgins liken to white bread made of the purest wheat, whereas the wives be more like coarser bread made of barley, by her.
Even just classifying these men like this is kinda crazy. She launches her argument against those who might claim that a once-widowed woman ought to become a nun. The Wife's argument moves on to be a defense of marriage, period. She insists that though those who choose to marry might not be as spiritually perfect as people who remain chaste all their lives, they are still fulfilling God's commandments. The major feature of marriage, for the Wife, is the marriage debt, or sex, which seems to be why she's so strongly in favor of marriage.