She incorporates views and ideals of society into the work and gets her message across clearly. The relationship between the narrator and her husband would be disagreeable to a modern woman's relationship. ... John, the narrator's husband, is a prominent doctor and both his and his wife's words and actions reflect their relationship, "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage." ...
Leonato even tells her "By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue" (2.1.16-17). Beatrice knows that she is happy without a husband and tells Leonato that she refuses to get married "till God make men of some other metal than earth" (2.1.59-60): This is an extremely bold statement for a women in this time period. ... Many Shakespearian women are quiet and go along with whatever their husbands want, but not Beatrice. ... Shakespeare put feminist ideals into Beatrice's character, showing her to be more likable and also takin...
The regimen prescribed by her husband and brother was one of the myriad acceptable treatments recommend for hysteria. ... It follows, then, that the treatment; submission; anti-intellectualism; and relegation to women's' domestic sphere, was only a husband and a doctor's word away. ... She is there to show us how John's ideal woman behaves. ... The narrator has been denied her own humanity, by her husband, her brother, even by other women to the point that, finally, she denies it herself. ...
As hard as her poor husband tries to help her, he unknowingly drives her mad. ... The mother sinks into a still-deeper depression invisible to her husband, who believes he knows what is best for her. ... ("Guide-) That her husband, John, opposes her writing because it was not considered, to be the proper way a woman should act. Throughout the story, her sister- in-law, Jennie, seems a perfect example of a man's ideal woman. ... Her husband, John, is a well-known physician that uses his power to make his wife to believe she feels the way he thinks she should feel. ...
Anything wanted by women, or exemplary of their individualism was shunned in fear that one day these feminist ideals would grow and overcome the once subservient gender. ... In which, he impregnates her mentally-retarded daughter only so Yasuko could have the closest thing to an heir that her deceased husband Akio, could not give her. ... She uses her intuition, her female intuition, to catch her husband in the act. ... It is not only advanced for the Japanese culture, but for the western ideal as well, where there are still less heroines as opposed to heros. ...
An ailment her husband and brother has diagnosed. ... This shows how controlling John is over her as both husband and doctor. ... Her husband refuses to accept that she may have a real problem. Her husband suggests enormous amounts of bed rest and no human interaction at all. ... The husband and Jane were symbolic of society. ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story "The Yellow Wallpaper" is an account of a mentally disturbed woman, Jane, and her husband's attempts to help her get well by convincing her that continual seclusion and constant bed rest is the only way to cure her psychological condition. ... The wallpaper itself, which is intended to portray the characteristics of the ideal woman, is the narrator's source of madness. ... This can be seen in the fact that her husband believes that she is recovering, when in actuality she is getting worse. ... As this breakdown is nearing, she starts ...
The protagonist Celie is diminished and isolated by the men in her lives, first by her father and later by her husband, Mr.________. ... The ideal role of a man or the qualities of a 'real' man would be defined by a man having a well paid job and him driving a Cadillac, and any man lacking these qualities is less of a man. ... The term "patriarchy" can be defined as "the rule of the father, including the rule of older men over younger men and of fathers over daughters, as well as husbands over wives....
Through Hugo's novel, Cossette portrays these stereotypical feminine ideals with her pleasant and easygoing attitude and striking beauty. ... One Feminist ideal that becomes popular after the publication of Les Misresbales is the slogan "the personal is political". ... Eponine breaks away from the classic ideal of a women being controlled by a man, either a father or husband. ...
The spouses of civil servants - their husbands were needed to know what could be the level of difference between the answers of males and females and what do husband consider his wife to be and what are the ideological constraints do they both have in participation of women with men. ...
Communication and Popular Culture BUST magazine is meant to be an alternative outlet for women who are sick of the images given to them in the more established and conventional women's magazines. BUST offers quite a different set of values than most young women's magazines. BUST values the woman as an independent person that does not need to answer to the prescribed cultural values usually given to them. The woman who reads BUST is not getting advice on men or how to lose weight. She is reading about other women and issues related to women. ...
