Great Expectations is, I think, a very sad and rueful story. It is because this story shows how human life is empty. ... So it is really sad and rueful story. ... The love for Estella makes his expectations more complete one. ... I dont know what this fact means in the whole story because I read only half of the story. ...
In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour,"" we learn about a woman and her acceptance of a less satisfying life. 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. ... One of the many themes in this story is not accepting life as it comes but directing it in a desired path. ... This story has many themes. ... In today's society, women have made great strides to equality. ...
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. ... The audience would...
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. ... Both men and women were included in the different story accounts being released. ... The Age of Reformation saw many changes, but the expectations of the morality of women did not. ...
Chopin's stories "The Storm" and "The Story of an Hour" both express a fresh and unconventional view of love and marriage. ... 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 unfu...
At first glance John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" seems to be a story about a woman whose niche is in the garden. Upon deeper inspection the story has strong notes of feminism in the central character Elisa Allen. ... In the opening of the story Elisa is emasculated by the description of her clothing. ... The drifter feigns great interest in Elisa's chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. ... She sadly realizes that she can never live up to the expectations she places on herself....
These diverse types of women all fell into the category fitted because of how society prefers women to behave and how the woman feels about society's/family's expectations for them. ... Jayanthi, an American Indian woman from Bells interviews recalls "[getting] confused [and] freak[ing] out and feel[ing] [the need] to settle down" (33) when her actions opposed her parents and community's expectations of her. ... Personal history is a huge factor in Janyanthi's success as a person and while creating her own she discovers "there is also appeal in the drama and ...
The expectations and rules of the male and female roles in society have always been explicitly laid out. ... This demonstrates the lack of respect the men gave women throughout the story. ... Yet, despite these great strides of feminism in the United States, there will always be obvious and unfair distinctions between men and women. ... This story is so important to society because it is so true to life. Everyday we are faced with so many expectations and demands of society and everyday we are judged and sometimes even do the judging. ...
Every element of this story adds up to a work designed for propaganda from an era where the call for women's rights filled the streets of America. ... 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. ... A method Cather uses to elevate Antonia is to tell her story through the eyes of Jim Burden, a man ...
A popular story from Book One, the tale of Lucretia, is known for its symbolism of the fall of monarchy in Rome. 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. ... The patriarchal hierarchy of the Roman family is shown throughout her story. ...
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. ... When Kingston reflects on the story, she realizes that her aunt's pregnancy was not her aunt's fault at all. ... Each story has its own separate histories, languages, customs, and mentality. ... Each character in each story is left to fill the void with high self-esteem, so they can ...
In the "The Story Of An Hour-, Chopin illustrates freedom in the character Mrs. ... In "The Story Of An Hour-, the protagonist, Mrs. ... 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. ... Mallard she finds her strength when the male figure in her story dies. ...
In every short story read this semester, not one character loved another and was loved back equally. ... He had too high of expectations of a woman. ... In the short story, "Princess Mary-, Pechorin decides that the princess will be his next conquest. ... They put it before their marriages, before their children (Dmitri's, maybe Anna's), and before society's expectations of them. ... After reading all these stories about the vices of mankind, it can be concluded that true love does not exist, at least in Russian literature. ...
In my talk I will be discussing psychological phenomena and disorders that are particularly prevalent among females as well as overview how sociocultural views and expectations have influenced and continue to influence today the mental health of women; affecting their overall physical and psychological well-being. ... Being a teenager is difficult because society tends to put a lot of pressure and expectations that are impossible for one to keep up with. ... In their model we can understand that girls who have expectations of helplessness (i.e. having not control over life choices), who hare ...
The story was written in the late nineteenth century when American industry was flourishing and when Americans were becoming wealthier. ... James story depicts Daisy Miller and her family's travel to Europe and their confrontation with Europe's old customs and traditions. ... During the first few pages of the story, Daisy is exposed as a "pretty American flirt- (286). 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...
In this story, women are restricted to the life preset to them by someone else. ... The Woman Warrior proves her great determination and daring power as she struggles for her own survival. ... In response to this stereotypical judgment, The Woman Warrior faces the dragon and defies expectations. ... In conclusion, the story of The Woman Warrior shows Kingston's support for feminism implicitly. ... The world is still not a perfect place today, which is why Kingston added paradoxes to the story. ...
Her poems, short stories and novels permitted her not only to emphasize her beliefs for herself, but also question the ideas of individuality and autonomy during the turn of the century. ... The events she experienced, along with her female insight, provided a cornerstone for her stories and a fresh outlet for the perspective of other women; perhaps becoming a voice for women of her generation. ... Edna is pulled in two different directions; she is torn between what she believes is true and the great expectations society has placed on women. ...
In this story, Huitzitzilin deals with wanting to share the story of her life and to reveal the truth of the Spaniards conquest and having to stick to the confession standards and practices. ... 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. ...
Wilkins Freeman's story, "A New England Nun.... 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. ... This foreshadows how Louisa chooses the path of independence at the end of the story where "serenity and placid narrowness had become to her as the birthright herself."(661) What is interesting is that Freeman describes death as something great which happened to Louisa. ... Freeman develops g...
Behn's tragic love story chronicles the life of an African prince who is captured and transported to a sugarcane plantation as a slave on the British colony of Surinam. ... Oroonoko claims to be a true story based on Behn's experiences in Surinam. She begins the novel by stating that she is an "eye-witness" and that the story is not a work of fiction [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ... The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... Throughout the plot, these three women abandon thei...
Stories of ice cream" (Hosseini 7). ... 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). ...
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. ... Roberts displays tremendous stories from many Founding Mothers of America, however, Martha Washington truly shows her compassion to both her family and her country and her bravery as she fights through every journey she has made. ...
The depression of being with a person who you neither love nor care about took a great toll on Gurov. ... Throughout the story Chekhov carefully painted this picture of a man trying to become more fulfilled in life but always being put down by society. ... 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. ...
It was this perspective that drove Cisneros to dedicate The House on Mango Street to "A las Mujeres/ To the Women" because she felt "indebted for having stolen their stories" (1). ... Although these stories were based on real people, as a creative writer, the women in the vignettes were figments of Cisneros' imagination. That is why Cisneros is able to relay the stories of these women with such accuracy. ... Both Cisneros and Esperanza's mother wanted their daughters to be something more in life than just adopting their position in the kitchen so they placed a gre...
In her words, the aim is not to rescue the humanist Chaucer, but to see in what ways his stories might enlarge our perceptions of human life and its possibilities, even though they were written during and for a very different historical context (xviii). ... How she chooses to travel is a minor aspect of crossing the lines of cultural gender expectations. ...
