1. Great Expectations -Pip's Love for Estella-
It was also the war itself which helped to pull the U.S. from the Great Depression due to the emergency war-time measures boosting the economy. The Great Depression was a time where the working class began to feel a great hostility towards the privileged aristocracy of the upper class. ... For the viewers themselves, Stanley is a character who is easily empathized with at this time when memories of the Great Depression are still fresh. ... She fears that she will never find a suitor who matches her expectations and she feels her lack of innocence is a major part of that. ...
Even before a child has been conceived, the parents and family members are already placing gender expectations on that unborn child. ... From the answer, given gender expectations start to roll out of people's mouths. ... But if it's a girl she will make a great nurse or teacher. ... The effects of gender expectations and discrimination are also seen in different cultures. ... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ...
The Cleavers were the perfect family with a strong husband, loving wife, and two great kids. ... Our society has certain standards and expectations for being a male. ... Our society has expectations of females just as they do for males. ... Who is to blame for these unreachable expectations we put on ourselves? Because of the unreachable expectations, the emotional impact on us is great. ...
This entire conflict is written to bring to light the ridiculous social expectations demanded of both women and men. 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. ... the expectations of society to try to be true to themselves (Meyer 1567). ...
The drifter feigns great interest in Elisa's chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. ... Steinbeck makes it very easy to relate to this woman's struggle for strength and contentment in a life that does not meet her expectations. ... She sadly realizes that she can never live up to the expectations she places on herself....
Within the play Antigone, Sophocles demonstrates many views of gender expectations in Greek life. ... As the new king of Thebes, Creon demonstrated his expectations that men are the primary actors in Greek society and that his word of law should never be questioned even if it isn't that of the gods. ... In a way, she was a rebel to the social norm and the standards of gender specific expectations and actions. ... Both sisters vary greatly in their respective attributes, Ishmene illustrated that she was a women who fit the bill of a women with femininity in society, where Antigone challen...
However, Nora is a self-determined woman who opposes society's expectations. ... Nora goes against society's expectations by providing for the family. ... Nora is not the type of woman to follow the normal expectations of women in this time, and she expects to receive the correct treatment from men. ... You and Papa have committed a great sin against me. ... Nora represents a strong willed women who will not conform to society's expectations....
Her views were extremely controversial because they express a woman's right to revolt against such expectations and live for herself. ... This is the moment when it seems as though the actual storm and the storm within Calixta converge with a great intensity. ... This in itself provoked a great deal of controversy among Chopin's society. ... They are victims to societal expectations that they must live up to, expectations that force them to live unfulfilling and empty lives. ...
Louis Mallard leads a happy life with little troubles; but because of the expectations of a woman during the late nineteenth century, she is confined to a model life. ... Even in the case of a tragedy, they feel she is unable to handle the news and "great care [is] taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death- (Chopin 147). ... In today's society, women have made great strides to equality. ...
Its no wonder that Cather describes the scenery so extensively, with quotes such as "The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up." ... Then there is Antonia, growing up away from all these social expectations, away from the cities and stuffy aristocrats. ...
Her story is one that, while giving some insight to the lives of Roman women during her time, mostly shaped the expectations of women. ... While the events are not necessarily true, this drastic act reveals men expected women to go to great lengths to preserve their family's name. ...
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... They put it before their marriages, before their children (Dmitri's, maybe Anna's), and before society's expectations of them. ...
The expectations and rules of the male and female roles in society have always been explicitly laid out. ... Yet, despite these great strides of feminism in the United States, there will always be obvious and unfair distinctions between men and women. ... Everyday we are faced with so many expectations and demands of society and everyday we are judged and sometimes even do the judging. ...
You and Papa have done me a great wrong. ... She now sees the fact that the way in which she was compelled to behave was a "great wrong" that stunted her development as an adult and as a human being. ... She had a self described joy in her life, her love of work, "All my life as long as I can remember, I've worked-that's been one of my one great joy." ... Women of the time were objectified and certainly not seen as equals, in contrast to Linde, She felt a great duty to maintain subordinance and keep domestic peace and harmony, she speaks to Torvald, "I've been your doll wife". ...
Though she attempts to defy these expectations by cutting off her "great big nose" and "fat legs," in her death, the woman is displayed in her casket with cosmetics painted on and a beautiful turned-up putty nose. ... They went to great pains making themselves look perfect, hoping to attract a male. ...
Gender roles influence women and men in virtually every area of life including family and occupation, but are women and men subject to different roles or behavior expectations? ... This was accomplished on one level by preventing women from gaining the sort of education offered to men, and while this has changed to a great extent in the United States, there are still inequalities in the opportunities offered to men as opposed to women. ... While it is true men and women's roles in the workplace are becoming closer in equality, there is still a great amount of room for improvement. ...
Women sacrificed their lives with their personal plans to improve the lifestyles and behavior of the expectations of all woman during that period and consistently lead to the future. ... Positions that were intended for men were taken up by women and resulting in great achievements. ...
Furthermore, Sylvia Plath's imagery is used to help paint the picture of just how determined Esther is to meet her own expectations as well as societies. ... I felt part of a great tradition"" (Plath 229). ... It's here that Esther's, not only physical but psychological conflict, is addressed as she strives to meet the expectations of a typical 1950's woman. ...
Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great influences in the writing and controversial reception of this work. ... A woman's own expectations were meek because neither her family nor society expected her to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. ... Women began to organize and participate in a great variety of reform movements to improve educational rights as well as individual liberties. ... A marriage without passion guarded a Victorian woman from the pain of a relationship that fell short of her expectations. ...
Based on the interpretation provided by Al-Hibri, a Middle Eastern feminist, the need to have a son is great because it is believed that through the son the family name would be carried on in future generations. ... In fact the doctor says that the family eventually does come to get the mother and child but this is done to show their displeasure and also is a disciplinary action so that in future she meets their expectations (6). ...
It uses gender roles as a mean of promoting products that impacts society expectations especially females. ... Moreover, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and housewives features the life of a family that spends a great deal of time and money on appearance, with a consequent rise in fame and popularity of its girls and women. ...
The depression of being with a person who you neither love nor care about took a great toll on Gurov. ... This shows how Gurov had high expectations of himself to become something greater in life, to obtain a deeper purpose in his life, yet he was held back by society where he had to conform to becoming a banker, an every day job position. ...