Great Expectations is, I think, a very sad and rueful story. ... Then, Id like to took note of chapter29. ... (p231- 232) He is completely intoxicated with the joy of his expectations. The love for Estella makes his expectations more complete one. ...
Ibsen expertly leads the audience into accepting that these social expectations are foolish and wrong. ... Nora, as a woman, also has many expectations she must try to live up to. ... Yet even though the weakest characteristics were attributed to women, great responsibility was put on them as regarding the raising of their children. ... Helmer comments on this fact and notes that "every lawyer is quite familiar with it (Ibsen 1587)." ... the expectations of society to try to be true to themselves (Meyer 1567). ...
He had too high of expectations of a woman. ... " I must marry her and in doing so I will surely be doing far more good than many of those who marry their housekeepers and often even the most contemptible creatures. - (Gogol 22) He even thinks that he is doing a great deed for society... In Dostoevsky's "The Underground Notes-, the underground man was way too crazy to fall in love with someone. ... They put it before their marriages, before their children (Dmitri's, maybe Anna's), and before society's expectations of them. ...
Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. ... I stated above that a man chooses to marry someone whom he has great respect and affection for. ... This results in a great overvaluation of his wife. ... (Nietzsche 147) These things result in the woman once again feeling as if she has done something wrong, when really all she has done is conform to the expectations set forth by society. ... Yet as wonderful as this rebellion from the norms of society sounds, it is very diffi...
Critical readings of Chopin's works often note the tension between female characters and the society that surrounds them. ... Mallard feel free, free from oppression, and free from the burden of society's expectations. ... The Storm, another great story written by Kate Chopin expresses yet again the theme of a male dominated society. ...
Hemingway notes, "Luz sat on the bed. ... Hemingway shows, "She hoped he would have a great career and believed in him absolutely. ... The reader learns that Luz's expectations of becoming the major's wife in the spring have been only fantasies. ...
She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. ... Nora's pampered lifestyle is at great odds with Mrs. ... As Tatiana from Eugene Onegin notes, without rank and riches', without moving in the grand monde', a woman is not a tempting plume' for a man to take. ...
The fact that Louisa willingly released the hand Joe Dagget, who was undeniably husband material and considered a "catch" for any single woman, reinforces the point that she was rebelling against the norms and expectations of society. ... "(661) What is interesting is that Freeman describes death as something great which happened to Louisa. She is advocating for women's freedom through the death of her family, when Louisa comes to recognize the great path of independence, and becomes a strong symbol of the strength of a woman as she is able to thrive on her own. It is also worth noti...
Although this sounds noble, it will weaken him and she will eventually feel resentment. 3-A man says he needs her desperately and she is so flattered that she gets involved. 4-She sees a man's potential and feels that with her help he could be great. ... This is a sign that she is reacting to her expectations of who this man is, and not the man himself. ...
But there is nothing comic about Joyce's vision, for each of the three principal characters are trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints from which it proves impossible to escape. ... But, as Joyce notes, the boarding house is "beginning to get a certain fame," and therefore inducing a respectable man to propose to Polly would be difficult. ... Doran had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant's office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job (James Joyce 40). ... She allowed the relationship to go on without interve...
