Jack And The Beanstalk Analysis

Women have been a vital key to the shaping and progression of our society. Throughout time, women’s roles and opportunities in the family, workplace, and society have greatly evolved. They started from being housewives that don’t have many rights, even in the household, to being valued citizens in our

though Jack does not want to be seen as a child, but as a figure of

All in all Jack is characterised as a mean, egotistic and uncaring person only concerned of his own well-being, who does not hesitate to betray his actual and future family in order to maintain his place in the white society. Even the reason why he, thanks God, stops writing, underlines and validates this interpretation. He, the mischievous upper class white man, has no time to go on writing because he wants to take his white girlfriend to the movies. Meantime, his hardworking poor, honest, black family will be striving to make ends meet. He’ll keep in touch because he knows: they are too proud and will never try to press money from him revealing their existence as he would do if he were in their shoes.

Jack is comparable with Tom because both of them are mischievous and unruly . ” ...have you been such a fool, such a dolt, such an idiot, as to give away my Milky-white, the best milker in the parish…”(Lenssen pg.1). This shows a side of rebellion in Jack because he got in trouble for not doing what his mom told him to do and in the quote he is getting yelled at for selling his cow for some “magical” beans. To sum it all up,

These basic and primitive rules that were ingrained in us by nature have been the essence of human civilization. Over the last hundred years, these rules have been broken. Man, through the female protests, were now starting to see that women were so much more than home makers who were being pushed around by man for ages. Women’s voices were starting to be heard. For too long has society deemed what was right for women (whose laws were written by man)? As women gained rights, so did man’s perception on women start to gain more respect. From the days of “Rosie the Riveter”, when women were involved in what was once man’s work, keeping the workforce going at home while the majority of men were off at WWII. To today, where women have almost as many rights as men, the view of society has changed and evolved. Nowadays, it seems that these once set in stone rules are being broken.

The most vivid scene to me, occurs when Jack begins to battle with his inner demons. He begins by saying, “I WAS a liar. Even though I lived in a place where everyone knew who I was, I couldn’t help but try to introduce new versions of myself as my interests changed, and as other versions failed to persuade. I was also a thief,” he admits to the readers (Wolff 133).

Today, women live in a dilapidated society plagued by inequality and male prejudices about women. Women experience oppression whilst doing anything. It’s like our world was hit with a klieg of stupidity.

There are different instances of irony: Algernon turns out to be Jack’s “mischievous younger brother”, and Cecily and Gwendolen actually do become “sisters”, just not the same way as Jack predicted. When it comes to Jack’s character, this is where comedic timing is most important and and how dialogue is important. Firstly, he is dishonest and hypocritical. Compared to Algernon, he continues to remain dishonest until he actually ends up telling the truth about his name, while it was unintentional. Algernon apologizes and admits his lie is to visit Cecily. Gwendolen doesn’t ask if Jack’s name change was to visit her, and instead assumes he was. When it’s revealed that Miss Prism is his mother, he gives a speech about redemption and forgiveness. After he finds out his name is Ernest, he says, “I always told you, Gwendolen, my name was Ernest, didn’t I?... I mean it naturally is Ernest. Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

It can be presumed that Jack does this in order to make his character seem more proper in comparison, and thus, people will see him as the more proper brother in

Every individual in this world requires the same necessities in order to survive. Despite this, men seem to receive a much greater advantage in society. For centuries women have been fighting for gender equality. Although this constant battle still lives on, the growth society has had on gender equality is remarkable. At the beginning of the 20th century women were expected to have one role in society; marry in her early 20s, start a family and dedicate her entire life to caring for her family. Towards the end of the 20th century, entering the workforce became a daily routine for a majority of the female population. In addition women were getting married later and only having children in their 30s. When women initially entered the workforce

Her haughty aunt, Lady Bracknell, deems Jack unworthy of marrying of Gwendolen because he is an orphan with no knowledge of his parents. Algernon Moncrieff Jack's friend, and nephew of Lady Bracknell, also assumes the Ernest identity in an attempt to woo Cecily, Jack's ward who is a woman who also dreams of marrying a man

Jack however, being the Cecily’s legal guardian, that he give consent to Algernon and Cecily getting married. Jack states that if Lady Bracknell consents his marriage, he will do the same. She refuses this offer, and she and Gwendolen are about to leave when Dr. Chasuble shows up to change Jack and Algernon’s name. He mentions Cecily’s governess, Mrs. Prism, which catches Mrs. Bracknell’s attention. She demands that Mrs. Prism is to be sent for, and when she arrives, Lady Bracknell accuses her of stealing her sister's baby. Mrs. Prism confesses and says that she lost the baby at a railway station after she had put the baby in her handbag. This catches Jack’s attention because that was what happened to him when he was a baby. After asking Mrs. Prism some questions, Jack puts the pieces together, and runs of stage. He comes back with a handbag, and asks Mrs. Prism if it is hers, and she says yes. Jack gives her a huge hug and yells, “Mother!” After while of sorting out all the details, Jack learns that he is not Mrs. Prisms son, but the son of Lady Bracknell’s sister, which makes him Algernon’s brother. He also learned that he had been christened Ernest John, so in the end, he had been telling the truth all

When the story begins it states “There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack” and “Cheer up, mother, I’ll go and get work somewhere,” said Jack” (Jacobs 1). This can be relatable to anybody in the world who really would like to help their parents any way they can. The story also has value and is still told today to help develop a child’s imagination. “Jack and the Beanstalk” give the basics of storytelling which are rising action, climax, and resolution as well as the difference between nonfiction and fiction. The rising action is when the magic beans grow and Jack climbs up the beanstalk and goes to where the ogre lives.

One day he tried to propose to Gwendolen, but it didn't work because of the concerns that nobody knew where he was from or is he a upper class, middle class and so on. Despite his deceptive nature, Jack is sincerely in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the daughter of the aristocratic Lady Bracknell. Jack is anxious to kill off his alter ego Ernest. The problem is that Gwendolen thinks that Jack’s name is Ernest. Ever since she was a child, Gwendolen has been in love with the name. Jack decides not to confess the truth of his name until Gwendolen finds out herself.

Although Jack felt societal pressure to create the persona of Ernest, they are still the same man, having