Marital Infidelity In The Second Wife By Baram Alkali

It is a kind of freedom which satisfies and relaxes and rejuvenates one and sets one free from one’s anxieties. Nobody sees them doing it but she avows it to her fiancé. By so doing Olanna breaks the statuquo. Olanna, fiancée to Odenigbo known to everybody in the University of Nsukka dares sleep with another man and say it openly to her future husband. Her action would not have had any importance if she had not informed Odenigbo. She informs him purposedly ; to let him feel what she has felt when he did the samething with Amala. Here, Adichie uses her feminist weapon to charter such denigrating and degrading treatments meted out to women by their lover. Olanna has reached her goal because Odenigbo is upset and frustrated at hearing her love affair with Richard. He is obliged to forgive her the way she did to him. Adichie puts Odenigbo in the same condition he has put Olanna in to show that men through patriarchy should stop ill-treating women and that like men women have a conscience, feelings and a soul. The situation reminds me of a custom in Things Fall Apart where the woman should say publicly how many men have slept with her since her fiancé has first expressed the desire to marry her (TFA ; 11). Nobody asks such a question to men simply because patriarchy has made people believe that men are superior to women and should not be controlled. Adichie by making Olanna sleep with Richard is making a clarion call for the

“‘I Can’t-we must-I mean it is impossible for me to marry Nweke’s daughter.’ ‘Impossible? Why?’ asked his father. ‘I don’t love her.’ ‘Nobody said you did. Why should you?’ he asked.” This following conversation takes place between Nene and his father in a rural town in Nigeria within the fictional story of “Marriage Is a Private Affair.” The following short story, written by Chinua Achebe, features young Nene and his adventures in the conflict between tradition and progression in the concept of arranged marriage. Although incomprehensible to many young Americans, arranged marriage is common throughout the world and its pros and cons will be examined along with the impact that it has on Nene’s relationship with his father throughout the acclaimed

The forced marriage between Mariam and Rasheed represents the oppression that women experienced in Afghanistan. Mariam's father and his wives arrange for Mariam to marry Rasheed, leaving Mariam with no say in the matter. The marriage that joins Mariam and Rasheed together is tainted by horrible mental, physical and sexual abuse. There are horrible dangers that arise from an arranged marriage, especially in Afghanistan where men view women primarily as child bearers. Married wanted to so badly to have not been forced into marriage, she was homesick and scared, “Her teeth rattled when she thought of the night, the time when Rasheed might, at last, decide to do to her what husbands did to their wives” (Hosseini 57). Laila was also forced into marriage with Rasheed, however, the circumstances differed. Laila was given a choice whether to enter into the marriage, but it was essentially life or death. Marrying Rasheed was the only way she and Tariq’s baby would ever survive. Rasheed was abusive to both Mariam and Laila. While he had once worshipped them, after not giving him the son he always wanted he no longer cared for them and began a cycle of horrible abuse. He treated them horribly, to which they could do little about, “there isn’t a court in this g-dforsaken country that will hold me accountable for what I will do.”(Hosseini 243) Rasheed says to Laila in reference

The Other Wife is a short story written by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette. Colette is credited for challenging rigid attitudes and assumptions about gender roles. “The Other Wife” is about a French aristocrat and his second wife has a brief encounter with his ex-wife in a restaurant. The story’s point of view is 3rd person omniscient. An analysis of how France 20th century gender roles influence the multiple personalities of a husband, wife, and ex-wife.

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

“It only take one person to change your life.” It could be a spouse, a long lost family member, or maybe even a baby. Change is never a bad thing. You will always have to face change, whether it’s changing schools, having to adjust to a new sibling, or even having to adjust to a new job.

See bases the story of the book behind the three women who wrote The Three Wives’ Commentary. The book is split into three different parts, one part for each wife. The first wife, Peony, is the first to be brought to the light. She grew up in a wealthy family and was born after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. Peony is soon to turn 16 and is already betrothed to a suitor that her father has chosen for her, as followed by tradition. She is infatuated by the opera: The Peony Pavilion, which she is granted to observe, along with the rest of her family, behind a curtain, since at the time, unmarried women were not supposed to be seen. All she was allowed to do was read about the opera, but when she is given the opportunity to see it for herself, she becomes extremely enthusiastic. She becomes so mesmerized and entranced by the opera that she had to take a step outside to calm herself down. While she takes a walk outside, she meets with a male stranger also decided to step out during the opera. Peony knew she wasn’t supposed to be speaking with any male that wasn’t within her family, but she fell for him the moment she saw him. The opera was so long that it took three nights to perform, so they agreed to meet each other on each night. They both knew they were to be wed to another since they were both betrothed at the time, but little did they know they were actually betrothed to each other.

Slam went the prison door because the poor man missed Sunday mass. Back when Puritan laws were enforceable by the town people had to go to Sunday mass every week, today millions of people who are Christian do not go to mass on Sunday. Today’s society is not an extent of its Puritan roots. It promotes extravagant behavior. Society rewards being lazy and not hardworking. It ignores adultery. America is not an extent of its Puritan past because it promotes interracial marriages, helps the lazy and provokes adultery.

Despite this, after marriage, a woman's expectations are suppressed and she is forced to give in to the expectations of the husband. Somer and Kavita are both forced to suppress their expectations and to give in to their husband's as they are threatened by desertion. Kavita's expectation is that she should be allowed to keep her children regardless of their gender. Somer is a caring wife who expects her husband to consult her before making decisions and also expects him to respect her opinions. However, even when the wives make themselves clear, their husbands simply disregard their expectations. Somer conveyed to her husband, Kris that she was not happy with how he had decided to send their daughter, Asha off to India without consulting her; however, Kris does the same thing again by deciding to go to India himself without discussing it with her. Somer's expectations are ignored, and on top of that, Kris says, "Come if you want. Or don't. Maybe it's better that way" (Gowda 207). He is essentially saying, abide by what I believe or leave me. Similarly, Kavita's expectations are overlooked as well. Every time Kavita gives birth to a girl she is forced by her husband to give up the child. After her husband, Jasu disposed of her first child, she indirectly let him know that she was not happy with the fact that he had gone against her will, by rejecting him when

The issues of the case, is the Brown family having a polygamy relationship while it’s illegal to do so in the state of Utah. The Brown family contends it is in their religion to practice polygamy relationships, while the defendant contends the religion the Browns claims they are a part of does not practice polygamy relationships anymore since 1904.

Anila “committed the ultimate sin:(she)... met a boy, who, like (her), was becoming increasingly skeptical of repression in the name of race, class and religion”(Batool, 2010, p. 1). She then fell in love. If this boy was as well off as her it would not have been an obstacle but he was a poor non-Syed boy. Anila’s parents were furious with her but Anila could not help herself. She married the boy in secret. When her mother and brother discovered this they set up a trap to bring her back home and kill her. She got away. Unlike Aqsa Parvez who will be remembered for courageously standing up for herself. Elizabeth was considered to be like a tool to the boys of her house. After she finished reading a book called “The Feminine Mystique” she “found she weren’t alone”(Wilson, 1990, p. 3). She discovered that there were other women out there that did not like the way they were treated. She thought the best way to make her husband Lester understand was to leave to show how much she really did and how much he needed her. After leaving for approximately a week she came back and stood up for herself when Lester started yelling at her. Elizabeth's life was then turned upside down. Lester started calling her Elizabeth instead of women after she stood up to him and said “My name...is Elizabeth”(Wilson, 1990, p. 3). Since he was actually scared that she would leave again he listened and

The wife is a very bold woman, who is resilient and holds her beliefs tightly to her. Even in the way she expresses her lines, it suggests that she takes her opinions as facts and that she is not willing to hear opinions other than her own. Her voice also reveals that she does not pity those that she deceives. She is ruthless and does not really care for the well

As Oekeke awoke, he shifted in his bed with a pain coming from his chest. It wasn’t a pain that made you clench up and scream, he knew from that moment something was very wrong. He tried to open his at last, from when he awoke his eyes were still weary but it seemed as though he was stuck in time. His heart pumped faster and his mind was propelling from left to right to across the back and back. All he could think of was his family, but with such confusion he could hardly focus on the realty of his situation. It was a sensation he’d never felt ever before, and as he saw his life flash by him he knew the only thing he could do was to wait it out. The old man finally grasped control of his life covered in sweat and disorientation. He asked

The discussion of the Wife’s five husbands describes her evolving role as a woman and how she overcame the most ridiculous obstacles to maintain this idea or illusion of marriage. The Wife’s depiction of her marriages was that three were good and two were bad. The initial marriages were to older rich men where she kept up this idea of marriage in order to receive money, but was not faithful by

People utilize many different words to describe, define and even attempt to dismiss adultery; unfaithfulness, infidelity, playing the field, extramarital relations, having an affair are just a few. The net result of this choice however is the destruction of a personal reputation, trust and respect, while at the same time laying waste to spouse and children alike. Even in the earliest days of civilization adultery was understood to be destructive, thus earning its own “Thou Shalt Not”, in addition to, at least 40 other less than positive references and assorted stories in the Bible. Many societies, including our own, have gone so far as to outlaw this practice; in some cultures penalties range up to death. So why do we allow