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forced to work harder to make a living. Often times, the work the lower classmen are forced to

The father, or father figure, has the ability like no other to shape the life of his young daughter. This is because of the powerful influence that fathers hold, which gives them the ability to not only impress upon a daughter’s actions, but also her self confidence, esteem, image, and even her opinions of men. Depending on the father, or person in the “conventional” father’s place, communication styles and teaching methods widely vary in the father-daughter relationship. This is perfectly displayed in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, through Polonius’ fatherly advice given to Ophelia, and through the moral lesson found at the end of “Little Red Riding Hood”, the Grimm Brothers’ version. In both works, the daughters receive a warning regarding

For centuries, women have had the role of being the perfect and typical house wife; needs to stay home and watch the children, cook for husbands, tend to the laundry and chores around the house. In her short story “Girl”, Jamaica Kincaid provides a long one sentence short story about a mother giving specific instructions to her daughter but with one question towards the end, with the daughter’s mother telling her daughter if she had done all the instructions to become a so called “perfect” woman, every man would want her. Kincaid’s structuring in “Girl,” captures a demanding and commanding tone. This short story relates to feminist perspectives. The mother expects a great deal from her daughter to have a certain potential and she does not hesitate to let her daughter understand that. As a matter of fact, the story is about two pages long, made into one long sentence - almost the whole time the mother is giving her daughter directions to follow - conveys a message to the reader that the mother demands and expects great potential in her daughter. The daughter is forced to listen and learn from what her mother is telling her to do to become the perfect housewife. Throughout the story, Kincaid uses the symbols of the house and clothing, benna and food to represent the meanings of becoming a young girl to a woman and being treated like one in society. Women are portrayed to appeal to a man to become the ideal woman in society, while men can do anything they please.

The woman is supposed to clean, and cook for her family. Also, a woman is supposed to listen to her husband and not disobey. Women are made to feel like total failures if they do not get married and have children, so in their culture they are seen as deviant. Anzaldúa talks about how when she was younger she knew that she something was “wrong” with her. She started talking about her deviant behavior of how she refuses to take orders from authorities. She wouldn’t take orders from her parents and she wouldn’t do chores. There was a rebel in her. She called it “The Shadow-Beast” (Anzaldúa, 2012, p. 38).

demise, she furthermore sacrifices her moral beliefs when she works as a prostitute to afford

As a result of the narrator not possessing any desirable traits found in an ideal woman, she doubts that she would ever marry. She is shy, insecure, and she is not the most beautiful of women. As a result, she willingly became

She learns that her parents are planning an arranged marriage for her. It has been centuries since the practice of arranged marriages for political or personal gain had been outlawed.

This essay will analyze the themes of sexual and class exploitations in the story “The Wife’s Resentment” by Delariviere Manley. By exploring these themes we are able to get an idea of why Manley wrote this story. That is, she hoped to make young women, whether rich or poor, aware of the value of their virtue as well as their rights as married or single women to protect that virtue or honor. By revealing the themes that are presented in the story, we can see what Manley stood for and why she wrote this story in the period she lived in.

From the beginning of Vella’s narrative, it’s clear that this society is a bad place for women: completely against her will, Vella has been chosen by the society to be sacrificed in the Maiden Feast, an annual activity— not unlike the Reaping in Collins’s The Hunger Games or the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”— that’s designed to bring peace and

The subject of inferiority to their fathers only to be shackled to their husbands at first

She choose to give up the chance to be with her true love to keep her family happy and now she has to live everyday regretting her decision and not being able to do what her daughter was able to do, sacrifice everything for true

At first, she feels guilty about this affair but she eventually surrenders herself to her lover, her romance causes suffering to the wife. Her lover’s spouse becomes the “vigour of living destroys” (42). Her obsession causes only pain to her and to the wife, the narrator is aware of that: “if I am suffering, think what she suffered – a hundred times more and without hope” (85). Yet, she cannot make herself

By failing to live at peace with their men, they will cause turmoil and thus be disobeying the unwritten “law” of women.

In a patriarchal society like Turkey, woman who are aware, and protect her own rights, is thought as insolet versus man and she is accused of losing femininity. In this type society, there are certain roles for man and women. Man are charged with taking care of his family, protecting his wife. As to women, “ their main preoccupation, fostered by parents and educators alike, is “ the pursuit of a wedding ring.” As one editor put it, college for women was the “ world’s best marriage mart.” ” (reed 4) They are raised to be perfect wifes who respect, trust, yield to their husbands. It does not matter how she is smart or successful, marriage is the only aim. If she does not have good marriage, she thinks that she is inadequate. Therefore, men see women as their properties. So, when a woman defends herself, resists again her husband, man takes this as disrespectfulness and disobedience. Not

The plight of Women becomes very apparent in the sphere of marriage. Women are expected to marry, and many call it the "aim of her existence" (Billington pg 22). There is a general belief of parents that if their daughter does not marry, she will go to hell, and any Woman in this society which does not marry is not seen as a real Woman. At this point she is forced to go into the workforce.