Sereana Botebote Professor Ned Williams ENG 251 Research Critique Paper March 27th, 2012 Love and Morality in Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’ Edna Pontellier is a woman with tremendous need who is married with two children and a loving husband who cares for her, yet she is not happy with what she has. The novel ‘The Awakening’ was written in the 1890’s and is one of Chopin’s short novels. The story reflects Edna’s want or what can be called need. The story opens in Grand Isle, a hotel where wealthy people of New Orleans go for vacation. The Pontellier family is on vacation.
Nanny took care of Janie really well and loved her. Nanny’s only desire was to marry Janie to a man of social status and a man that can provide her safety. This was Nanny’s definition of safety for Janie because Nanny herself when she was a slave was raped by her master, abused by the master’s mistress, and Janie’s mother was raped by her Teacher. Nanny marries Janie off to an older but wealthy man, Logan Killicks after she finds Janie kissing a local boy. After Janie moves in with Logan she feels miserable and finds no love for Willicks.
She mourned of her husband’s passing but as she went up the flight of stairs into her room, Mrs. Mallard came to realize of her newfound freedom. She soon relished her liberation from her marriage to her husband Brently. Such freedom was short-lived, and as she her eyes caught sight of her husband’s entrance into the house, her heart gave way and she died. The two women do indeed share some similarities, but also at the same time show various differences that make their respective situations unique. Among the similarities between Calixta and Mrs. Mallard are the conditions of their marriages around the time of the stories: Calixta to Bobinot and Mrs. Mallard with Brently Mallard.
There is an example of each in the stories “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen, Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz, and “Sex without Love” by Sharon Olds (Patick). In all three if these stories, there is a relationship between two individuals who seem to love each other but somehow one or both of the individual’s feelings change and there is no longer love in the relationship. Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing” is an internal story told by the mind of a mother who reflects on choices that she made raising her now struggling daughter, Emily (Shmoop). Like all parents, Emily’s mother is infatuated with her daughter in the early stages of her life. Emily’s mother describes her as “a beautiful baby.
Is marriage a prison? According to Kate Chopin, the answer is – yes; marriage is a prison in which freedom does not exist. In 1894, Kate Chopin wrote and published “Story of an Hour.” The story takes place in the late nineteenth century in an American home, where Mrs. Mallard, the protagonist, heard about the news of her husband’s death from her sister. In the beginning, Mrs. Mallards felt sad about her husband’s death. The feeling, however, shifts because she begins to be happy about her husband’s death.
When Connie’s mother would reprimand and tell her, “Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you’re so pretty” (Oates 563). Connie would feel as if her mother was jealous of her. In Zlatan Krizan, and Omesh Johar’s article “Envy Divides the Two Faces of Narcissism.” The writers assert, “Envy has long been considered a central feature of narcissistic personalities” (1415). Connie was living a double life where she would act and dress differently around her family and the people she wanted to paint a good image for but when she was out with her friends and they’d go to the mall
As Antonia Fraser revealed in her biography Maria Antoinette: The Journey, Marie-Antoinette's reputation for sweetness and kindness became even more entrenched in 1774, when as the new Queen she asked the people to be relieved of a tax called "The Queen's belt," a tradition at the beginning of each reign. "Belts are no longer worn," she quipped. It was the onslaught of a propaganda that later ruined her reputation. Unhappy Marriage “Maria Antoinette was not satisfied by her marriage.”7 In fact, as Maria’s lady in waiting Campan wrote in her diary The Memoirs of Maria Antoinette, Louis was insensible and egocentric. Although Louis became a devoted husband and he admired Marie's character, in her early years in France his apathy made Maria Antoinette feel isolated.
Book Analysis Sobel, Dava, Galileo’s Daughter (New York, 2009) Throughout Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel draws on a collection of 124 letters written by Suor Maria Celeste to her father. These letters, now preserved in the National Central Library of Florence, narrate an enduring story of faith and love. Sobel uses them to reanimate a forgotten woman. By Galileo's own estimation, as well as in the opinion of his friends, she was the most important person in his life. This starts the chain of letters between the father and daughter.
I believe the fact that her parents were teachers had lot to do with the fact that she became a poet. She and some other poets were invited to a festival in Nicaragua. Burns and another one of the poets (who was already married) got married and spent the time in Nicaragua honeymooning. Burns had a bad drug and alcoholic problem which caused her to lose custody of her daughter and later caused her death at the age of 50. Read the following articles about Native Americans and alcoholism.
Love drives the heart of the story. Nicks love for his cousin and his new found friends. Gatsby’s love for Daisy, Toms love for Daisy as well as his woman on the side, Myrtle and of course Myrtle’s husbands love for her, which leads him to the tragic ending of the film. The Classism is clearly shown that Gatsby’s soul reason for desiring and acquiring wealth is solely to capture the woman of his dreams heart by means of showing he can continue the rich and lavish lifestyle she has grown used to while married to her rich polo player of a husband. Also shown by the poor car mechanic husband of Myrtle being happily married and in love with his woman while the rich Tom comes around to woo his wife away secretly on her desire for a more financially stable and available man in her life.