As the wedding scene unfolds, the theme of oppression is quite blatant, particularly with the image of the bride: "she in a white dress trimmed with stripes and bows of coloured ribbon, giving her the appearance of an iced cake all ready to be cut and served in neat little pieces to the bridegroom beside her." ... The description of him eating it, as he: "broke the bread smeared it round and chewed greedily" is a prolepsis of the unseen sexual act that takes place after the story finishes. The Herr is portrayed as being brutish, coarse and animalistic; the "breaking" of the bread is also a r...

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Many children, to  make sure that there are more working hands, and, to send more people out to earn the daily bread. ... One cannot possibly imagine a young girl being married off and giving birth as soon as she is able to do so, what sort of unhappy existence must she have, and the worst part is, years and years of watching this practice being implemented has made it a mere normalcy. ...

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