In the stories A Doll's House and Sweat this idea of what we now call a "woman" does not even exist. ... In some cases even daughters were treated like this also. If a man wanted to marry another man's daughter he would have to get her father's permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. ... In the story A Doll's House Torvald, the husband, treated Nora, his wife, more like his daughter. ... In the story "Sweat" Delia was basically faced with a similar situation. ...

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Her father is an unfair man, who makes his daughter work and then keeps her wages. ... b) Eveline's father is a shadowy but menacing bully who has ruined her mother's life and is set to ruin hers. Eveline's father is the repressive authority in her life. ... She is trapped in an ugly situation, responsible for her siblings and the aging father who abuses her. ... The mother doesn't really accept her newborn child as her daughter and to an extent her child doesn't mean anything to her. ...

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In Yamamoto's story, Rosie's mother received repercussions for expressing herself through haiku and letting her heritage and spirituality shine. ... How, she questions, if these women were unable to express their creative spirit, was it passed down from generation to generation from mother to daughter. ... These stories, however, were often interrupted by a chore that needed to be done or a child that needed to be tended to (63). ... All this jealousy eventually lead to an upheaval where Rosie's father burnt an award the mother had won for a poetry contest. In the end, Yamam...

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The dominance of the males in the household is further emphasised by having the father "ask a blessing" at the rather rushed encounter at the dinner table. In the conversation between mother and daughter we are treated to further conflict within the story. ... "S"pose your father made you go out an" work for you livin"?" ... "He wanted a game of marbles before school, and feared his father would give him some chores to do." ... which mirror's Sarah's similar cry of "Father" at the story's start. ...

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This book taught that men should treat their wives with honor and respect, "but he insisted that women remain subject to the guidance of the principal men in their lives-first their fathers, then their husbands, and finally, if they survived their husbands, their sons." ... Fathers have the power to offer their daughters to any man they see fit, even if it is against their daughters wishes. ... The servants (of Kaikeyi/Sita) in the story are very mischievous. Soorpanaka is a female demon that terrorizes Rama in the story and does everything in her evil power to obtain his love, but fails. ... ...

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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... Maria's father (Don Pepe) was a religious man who was respected greatly because he was a landowner. ... Eventually, Maria's father met with her and explained his situation and why they can't meet in public. Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... By sharing her story with other women who went through the same ordeal, it made her feel relieved and settle...

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Another interpretation of the controversy surrounding Maria Henson asserts that she was simply a loving daughter whose charisma and personal ideas were misconstrued as an illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner. ... Maria's father (Don Pepe) was a religious man who was respected greatly because he was a landowner. ... Eventually, Maria's father met with her and explained his situation and why they can't meet in public. Maria understood and obeyed her father. ... By sharing her story with other women who went through the same ordeal, it made her feel relieved and settle...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story of Atalanta and Hippoumenes is a love story about love and deception. It is a story within the story of book ten of Metamorphosis. ... King Shahrayer says it is only good to marry for one night until he meets vizier's daughter Shahzamed. ... Gualteri sends his son and daughter away and pretends they were put to death to test his wife. ... He tells her he is going to send her back to her father's house a take another woman as his wife. ...

• Word Count: 1148
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"A Doll's House" chronicles the story of a husband and wife who live in a flat. Throughout the story, the reader sees Nora, the wife of Torvald Helmer, change from a "girl" completely dependant on everyone around her, into a rebellious, self-aware "woman" who realizes she has been living in the shadow of her father and her husband her entire life. As the story progresses, Nora evolves from a sheltered housewife into a confident, independent woman. ... Much like a father would to his daughter, Torvald explains to her that she must learn to save her money and spend it wisely. ... First...

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At the mere age of 16, "her father planned to marry her off", but to the shock of her family she did not want to marry a man she did not choose. ... She also failed as a daughter and embarrasses her family name because of her sexual antics. As a favorite daughter she also fails to fulfill her parent's expectations. ... Rafique's manhood test throughout the story, Ali slowly reveals the hidden societal womanhood test of Zulai through the consequences of her decisions and actions. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It sounds as if a father is reading a bedtime story to his daughter, not a normal relationship between a man and a woman. John, like 19th century society, wants his wife as submissive as a child, always trusting father's advice. ...

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Nora Helmer was a delicate character who had been pampered all of her life, by her father, and by Torvald. ... After Krogstad threatens to expose Nora for forging her father's signature she realizes that no matter what she does Torvald was going to know the truth. ... She finds that she cannot appropriate her father's name. ... The story A Dolls House is believable. ... She was not looked at as an individual; she was seen as her father's daughter or her husband's wife. ...

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From what I unexpected, she married at an age of 18 and the following year, she gave birth to her daughter. ... Her story teaches me the biggest lesson. ... As a young age, I don't have ability to judge whom would be a good husband or a good father. ...

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One example from the story is when Edna wants to stay out on the porch and Leonce keeps ordering her to come back in the house. ... She is not married and has no children; so she, in a way, takes in Edna as a daughter. ... Edna goes to visit her children at their grandparents house later in the story, and she is surprised at her feelings. ... She feels that it is the best for them if she leaves because they would not understand her new life and why she was not with their father. ... In the story she tells Adele that she "...would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice hers...

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In this short story "They're Not Your Husband" by Raymond Carver written in third person and with Earl as the narrator, this is the case. ... Earl in an unemployed father who is married to Doreen. ... The themes in this short story could be "appearance" and but also "control" and "acceptance of own body". ... Both the daughter and the dad think the mom should stop slimming down, while the mom keeps torturing herself by cooking delicious only only to see other people enjoy it. ...

• Word Count: 865
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• Grade Level: High School