She fills her troops with a will to survive for their families, gives them motivation that they will be rewarded with the outcome of victory, and also fills them with patriotism which is the inspiration to protect their country. After reading this speech out loud it gave me a better perspective on how the Queen’s tone plays a big role in filling her men with courage and inspiration. She wants to touch her troops emotionally and make them feel connected in a way that will inspire the troops to fight for their queen and the country they represent. She states that she is “nothing but a weak, feeble woman” but follows it by stating “I have the heart and stomach of a king”. To me that line is filled with a great amount of emotion, if I were one of her troops I would be greatly inspired and ready to take on any obstacle in which the act of war may
These gender roles once were the societal standards and expectations that a young man or woman aimed to live by. They could almost be described as characteristic guidelines that one could aim for; giving young people a sense of direction. (Eldridge, 2005) James’s three main characters Basil, Olive and Verena portray three separate identities of the feminist movement that became the unraveling of gender roles. Basil represents the role of men, Olive represents those women consumed by the feminist movement and Verena represents those women caught in the middle. (Habegger, 1969) What is missing in this portrayal is men post feminist movement and the effects it has had on them and women who wish to live by their feminine roots.
Elisa Allen: The Chrysanthemums Elisa Allen is a smart, attractive, and ambitious woman whose talent goes unnoticed and lives in a society that does not allow women to have professional careers in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums. Elisa longed for her husband’s approval when it came to her talent with planting flowers. She desperately wanted to work in the business of the ranch and her offers of helping her husband were brushed off. Elisa’s husband is not as smart, but he makes all of the business decisions and runs the ranch while Elisa watches from afar. Elisa is unsatisfied with life and came in contact with a man who showed up on the ranch who she found appealing to talk to and quite flirtatious which is the kind of interaction she
Elisa puts all her energy and time into perfecting the chrysanthemum garden and her house working skills, even though she would rather be doing more exciting things. Elisa wants to be noticed for her skill and the hard work she does. She also wants to be able to do more then she does while being as successful as her husband.
Women became “deputy husbands”. This meant that women, such as Mary Silliman, took over their husbands’ responsibilities including the up keep of the farm, either working on it themselves or hiring workers, keeping the family’s finances in order. It was found that that Mary “took pride in the discovery that she could cope unaided with the work of overseeing the farm chores, keeping the accounts, and dealing with household repairs...” On top of keeping those “husband” duties, Women also had to ensure that their family and home is safe if there was to be an invasion of their home. When there was a raid in a nearby town, Mary heard of this news and was on alert “She did not
She loves to grow chrysanthemums. Henry thinks she has a good hand for planting he tells her what a strong crop she has and seems very proud “You’ve got a gift with things,” Henry observed. “Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across. I wish you’d work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big.”(Steinbeck 1938 p. 376). “Elisa has no children and her maternal instincts are shown through growing her chrysanthemums as well as other flowers.
As Audalio Dantas, I will publish the Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus because I want to show the people how Carolina’s pride in her own independence is the vital importance that determines both her identity and the way she reacts with other favelados. Carolina’s independence shows how strong she is and it also keeps her going to give the best to her children. Carolina sets out everyday and looks for paper to sell and in return she gets money
Crishwan Green Professor Boateng 5-8-13 Alleen Pace Nilsen, an educator and essayist, wrote about sexism in English: Embodiment and Language, from her most recent book, “Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature”. Nilsen and her family moves to Afghanistan for some time, and while there she noticed how bias their community were, with men playing a strong and active role. When Nilsen returned to the United States she studied American English for bias reasons between woman and men. Nilsen briefly talks about how men play both an active role not only in Afghanistan, but also in the American culture. Both countries having similar characteristics, Afghanistan is by far more bias than America, according to Nilsen.
For example, in John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums”, he reveals that in the patriarchal society of the 1930s women serve more as a decoration and have little purpose in the world; he does so through character, symbolism, and point of view. First, Steinbeck’s characters help display the theme of sexism through two types of men and an oppressed woman. Elisa Allen is a strong, passionate women living an unsatisfying life with a desire to escape her life, yet can not leave due to societies thoughts about women. Society looked down upon a woman’s desire to go on an adventure and see the world or to start her own business. With the thought that her life could change, Elisa becomes a new woman by bathing “until her skin was scratched and red.
From the vivid descriptions, it is known that the girl is physically strong, adventurous and enjoys working outside, as the text states: “Besides carrying water I helped my father when he cut the long grass, and the lamb’s quarter and flowering money-musk, that grew between the pens”(572), typical characteristics used to describe male characters. These gender roles are evident when the main character’s father said: “Like you to meet my new hired man”(573), and a salesman replies: “Could of fooled me, I thought it was only a girl”(573). The theme of Munro’s story clearly shows that men dominate in society and that is the way it has always been. The girl starts to realize she is not like the other girls when she is constantly criticized for what she thinks of as normal practice, like when she is told: “girls don’t slam doors like that” and “girls keep their knees together when they sit down”(575). Despite what she is told she continues to do this thinking: “by such measures I kept myself free”(575), by doing what isn’t thought of as normal for her to do, she will not fall into the mold that has been created