House of Obedience

The House Taken Over, a Short story by Julio Cortázar, and The Fall of The House of Usher, a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Both have a very similar goth type themed plot. Julio Cortázar published his story in 1946, while Edgar Allen Poe’s story was published in 1839. Although both stories have many similarities, they also have many differences.

After Nana commits suicide, and Jalil is forced to take Mariam in, he quickly looks to marry her off in order to rid himself of her. The idea was shared through all of Jalil’s wives, and it is so palpable that Mariam knows exactly what everyone wants to say, that “they had been disgraced by her birth, and this was their chance to erase, once and for all, the last trace of [Jalil’s] scandalous mistake. [Mariam] was being sent away because she was the walking, breathing embodiment of their shame” (Hosseini 48). These feelings reflect how deeply this society’s values have penetrated, to the point of women feeling in conflict with each other over struggles completely out of their control.

Regardless, her poor emotional state is proven through many lines in this lai, especially when she tells the knight “I grant you my love and my body” (115). She has finally come up with a method to “get away” from her husband in this decision. Throughout the rest of the story it is not once said that the wife came to love her new husband or her family, on the contrary, she does not seem happy in the following scenes. However, being afraid of her husband and his emotional violence, it is rational that she would try to find safety with someone else, even if that means giving away her “love,”—likely the appearance of such rather than actual love—and her

However the mother’s point of view was contrasting from the daughter it was tradition for the daughter to be a wife and to live with the husband, but because they had to leave her life at an early stage of her life she felt upset to see her grow with her husband without her. Afterwards years had past and the she found a way to keep her promise and end the marriage in the end.

Familial relationships enhance unity and trust and other important values that we may use in our daily lives. Within society, family is highly important, which may be the reason why Edgar Allan Poe decided to symbolize it through the aspect of the House. One could say; the passage depicts the idea that looks can be deceiving, especially when it comes to family. In regard to the hidden depths in Poe’s story, The Fall of the House of Usher, it is evident that in theory the house of Usher is in fact a visual representation of the family. The passage appears near the beginning of the story. It also in detail describes the appearance of the House of Usher. The narrator first saw the masonry through what he thought was antiquity, but in closely evaluating

When reading House of Mirth, Lily Bart seems to be a victim of circumstance, and readers watch her life seem to crumble around her. From the beginning, Lily was depicted as an overwhelmingly gorgeous woman; however, she has an overwhelmingly massive downfall: her dependence on wealth and social status. As outsiders, readers understand that money comes and goes, and social status is far from the most important things in life; however, Lily would disagree. Being born into high-society, Lily quickly developed a fondness for the extravagant things in life while fearing, and almost hating, dinginess (Wharton, 30-35). However, as the story progresses, she loses all the little money she has to fuel her gambling addiction, as if metaphorically

For decades, when a Native American woman has been assaulted or raped by a man who is non-Indian, she has had little or no recourse. Under long-standing law in Indian country, reservations are sovereign nations with their own police departments and courts in charge of prosecuting crimes on tribal land. But Indian police have lacked the legal authority to arrest non-Indian men who commit acts of domestic violence against native women on reservations, and tribal courts have lacked the authority to prosecute the men.

The next morning Nahuatl sat on her bed and waited for Keyan to come in her room. When he entered she stood up and ran into his arms. Keyan was so shocked that he froze, but he could not help and smile as Nahuatl hugged him. After, the long embrace Nahuatl spilled her heart out to Keyan. He could not believe what he was hearing, but he knew that they could never be together. Nahuatl saw Keyan’s broken expression and knew exactly what he was think, she did not care because she had already thought of a plan. She proposed her plan to run away together with Keyan and create a new village. She knew that that was the only way she could truly be happy with Keyan.

The “Fall of The House of The Usher” is a novel that gives the thrill of a family who has a troubled lifestyle. The story is told completely through one character, the narrator. The narrator is not given a name or any background information. The narrator is merely a door that opens to the reader to see the story clearly through his eyes. Throughout the story, the narrator slowly becomes a character of his own and he gets his own personality and thoughts. Him becoming his own character in the story shows his good reliability as a narrator. He starts to develop a horrific thoughts through the story and later as he leaves the house he is a changed person.

Many people see this as wrong, but why? It is clearly stated in the Islamic religion that women may be beaten if they are disobedience. Why then, would a woman do something defiant if she knows

Brooks uses the sources to bring the thesis together and to help get her point across about the oppression of Islamic women and the pride and power of their male figures. An Islamic law states that women are not to commit adultery, but their husband can have more than one wife. When Brooks learned the story of Rehab and Mohamed and how Mohamed left Rehab for Fatima, it really opened her eyes on how different the treatment of married women of the Islamic world.

Often women were abused by their husbands and the burka would hide the damage the husband did to his wife. Since the only way for women to get out of a relationship was through proving they were abused it was nearly impossible for them to prove they were abused. But if a woman felt that she could prove her case she would go in front of a court to prove her circumstances. The man’s word was thought to be more reliable, however, so the woman would not be allowed to get the divorce unless her case was proven. Even in some cases when the woman proved her abuse the court would side with the man. This just goes to show just how much power a man in Muslim society had over his wife. If a woman tried to beat her husband, however, they would get in trouble with the law. They would often be beaten to death if these rules were not satisfied. The man was also able to divorce the woman in these circumstances as well because the men’s wishes were granted in many marriages because of their superiority. When a man would divorce his wife though it was a major issue for the woman because she would be left with no land and

From that moment on, she no longer belongs to her own family. She then has to obey and serve her husband’s family because that is what the ideal woman was supposed to do.

Religion is a state of who you are. It signifies a person 's mental activities as well as their physical attributions to the world that surrounds them. Religion is a form of state that distinguish between different types of groups and cultures. While in a specific religious group, one must abide by all the rules and commit to what the religion has to offer. It is known that when a person disobeys their religious they get looked at as an outsider, or just as a person from another religious group. In This Blessed House written by Jhumpa Lahiri, she expresses how religion can be the cause of destroying a perfect romantic relationship. The couple in the story, Sanjeev and his wife Tanima, also known as Twinkle are both

It is often said that marriage is the extension of a family. Through marriage, one family is linked to another. In this regard, we have a third kind of women who are victims of the institution of marriage. In The Boarding House, Mrs. Mooney’s daughter Polly is the victim of the ingrained institution of marriage. After she learns of the affair between her daughter Polly and Mr. Doran, Mrs. Mooney forces him to marry her daughter in a rather tactful and cunning way: