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. ...
Many women were jailed, fined, banished and if the offense great enough executed. Though Protestants and Catholics differed in their theology, they both seemed to perceive women in the same roles and have the same expectations. ... The expectations of women were very clear during this time period. ... The Age of Reformation saw many changes, but the expectations of the morality of women did not. ...
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....
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. ...
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. ...
Both of these characters, as well as others such as Helen Burns are all females who are constrained by societal conventions, yet subvert them, and arise with great force. ... Despite punishment, abuse and malnourishment, Helen's passion for religion never wavers and although Bronte is questioning the form of religion she and many others devote themselves to, it is undoubted that she emerges with great force. Bronte subverts the societal expectations of the time by using atypical characters as well as subverting the traditional gothic genre, in the hope that she might inspire change in h...
Accustomed to wearing tattered, poor quality fabric that further relegated their status, bondswomen "went to great trouble to create and wear clothes of quality and, importantly, style.... This is reflected in work which has examined the external perceptions they induced, the expectations they challenged, and the subsequent slave culture they contributed to. ...
After reading three very powerful interpretations about women and by women - The Importance of Work, Life on the Global Assembly Line, and Professions for Women - it is important to point out the social expectations of women, how men view women, and more particularly, what women expect or aspire from themselves in a developing society. ... "Women are impeded by the extreme conventionality of the other sex men sensibly allow themselves great freedom in these respects, I doubt that they realize or can control the extreme severity with which they condemn such freedom in women" (868). ...
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. ...
A very intriguing, intelligent, and one of the most influential founding mothers of America, Martha Washington, out shined the expectations of women by challenging herself to face any obstacles thrown at her without failure. ... Described by Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, Martha "received [her] with great ease and politeness. ...
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. ...
During the 1890's America was characterized by strict social codes, both spoken and unspoken. Nineteenth century American women were expected to find their strength and meaning of self in their submissive state and in their dedication to home and family. The Awakening is a novel about the growth...
This book explains just how Spaniards invaded the Mexicas and imposed their religion without real explanation and with high expectations especially from women. ... After Huitzitzilin was able to see through the color of her children's skin and the way they looked, she had a mother's love for them; to see your daughter belittle you this was a great deception. ...
She is young, unsophisticated, chatty, and brags about all the society, especially "a great deal of gentlemen's society- that she had in New York (285). ... However, this shows her new knowledge, the knowledge of a woman who acts as she believes and feels, not on expectations. ...
Yet men develop false expectations as a result that women try their best to reach but physically cannot nor never will. ... We are constantly exposed to the media that does a great job at saying how beautiful girl's natural beauty is, but an awful job at actually showing it, by hiding it all behind the "perfect image....