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In P.D. Cacek’s short story “The Grave”, Elizabeth, the protagonist, resents bad mothers and their cruel treatment towards their children because Elizabeth is a bad mother. In the start of the story, Elizabeth notices a forgotten grave and immediately jumps to the conclusion that the grave belongs to a bad mother. As time passes, she tries to find reasons to disprove her statement but fails. As she gets home, the reader is introduced to Elizabeth’s mother, and this relationship illustrates the tension between to two. When it’s almost time to sleep, it is revealed to the reader that as Elizabeth leaves the grave, she dug up Precious' body and only recovers the skull. There are numerous examples of what happens when a parent fail in their job

In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.

Poverty and hardship are shown to create vulnerability in female characters, particularly the female servants, allowing powerful men to manipulate and sexually abuse them. Kent illustrates how poverty perpetuates maltreatment and abuse in a society like Burial Rites using the characters of Agnes’ mother Ingveldur and Agnes. Agnes’ mother is forced to make invidious choices as her children are “lugged along” from farm to farm, where she is sexually exploited by her employers. In spite of these circumstances, Agnes’ mother is commonly referred to as a whore in their society which abhors female promiscuity yet disregards male promiscuity as a harmless character trait; as in the case of Natan, who is merely “indiscreet” despite all his philandering. Born into poverty, Agnes experiences similar sexual coercion and manipulation from her “masters” and yet is labelled “a woman who is loose with her emotions and looser with her morals”. The severe poverty of Agnes is explicitly demonstrated to the reader by Kent through the intertextual reference of her entire belongings - a very dismal, piteous list to be “sold if a decent offer is presented”. Furthermore, Kent contrasts the situation of Agnes, a “landless workmaid raised on a porridge of moss and poverty”, to the comparative security Steina has experienced using a rhetorical question from

In "A Sorrowful Woman" the wife is depressed with her life, so much so, "The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again"(p.1). This wife and mother has come to detest her life, the sight of her family,

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

For instance, she wishes to dress smart only in case an accident should occur so that her body would be identified as a woman. She shows her being a “good woman”, contrary to a “good man” who “is hard to find”. But by doing so she reveals how artificial a Christian she is, that appearance for her is more significant than a “good Christian” spirit. It is her who divides the world into “good” and “evil” but she little realizes the actual parameters of these values. Her subjective point of view makes the borderline somewhat blurred, even the name of Jesus in her speech “sounded as if she might be cursing”. In fact, she is far from an epitome of virtue and it is only the fatal encounter with the Misfit that makes her realize the error of her ways. Hence, to some extent, the Grandmother may be treated as a common Everyman.

Madame Ratignolle was an example of their society’s role model woman, she was a “mother-woman” in which Mrs. Pontellier was not. For example “The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle..They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteems it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels (p.14). The author illustrates this imagine of the “role model women” to show her audience what Edna contrasted against. This illusion describes how mother-women were viewed as angels, in which could represent love and protection over their children. From either a feminist opinion or not, a reader can observe how the society of that era perfectionalized their women. However, Enda shows and feels the complete opposite towards her own children. The authors enhances this statement by writing “She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately in her heart ; she would sometimes forget them.. Their absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself, It seemed it freed her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.”(p.33) In

The protagonist in the story narrates about the life of a couple she hired to work for her. O’Connor talks about the social issues that affected the girl child during the postwar period. The author presents two families, one with two daughters, and the other with one daughter. The woman who hired the couple with two daughters loves the girls because she does not get along with her own daughter. O’Conner writes, “Mrs. Hopewell liked to tell people that Glynese and Carramae were two of the finest girls she knew” (O’Conner, 1955).

For a long time in many societies especially in Africa and the middle east where the common stereotype for women, which is also a life fulfilling dream for some is that their only purpose in life is to find a man, get married, have children, to support and care for their families and live happy for the rest of their lives, but this is not the case for Godwin’s protagonist. In this short story she is unhappy with her roles as a housewife and seeks to explore different roles. She slowly deteriorates when tasked with making engaging decisions. Little by little she steps out of her role in the family, she withdraws from the environment that puts her in the role of a mother and wife and her commitment to marriage. Her unhappiness and sickness is shown throughout the story, her roles as a wife and mother clearly the cause of her sickness and sadness and is visible when she tells her husband she does not want to see him and their son, she eventually

The novel was published in the year 1937. It is a depiction of a woman, whose life itself is an endeavour to oppose patriarchy. The protagonist show case great characteristic traits of representing the spirit of change. She breaks the norms that are posed by the male chauvinistic people around her. As the novel begins it is evident that Janie is suppressed by her own grandmother. This is the first level of suppression she undergoes. Here, a woman is suppressed by another woman of her own family, who has a mind that is glutted with the notions of patriarchy. The grandmother in Their Eyes Were Watching God though understands the sufferings of Janie, believes that it is her duty to get Janie married to the much older rich man. She believes that only a male support can make her life secured and happy. Here the grandmother represents the familial violence that is meted out to young women by people with patriarchal ideologies. According to her, a man is superior to a woman. She believes that only a man can give life and protection to a woman. The grandmother sticks to the old beliefs about marriage. This is one of the notorious notions that the patriarchal society hold on to. She fails to understand that women can live a secured life without even getting married. However, Janie is suppressed here. Janie is unable to protest against her much beloved grandmother. She becomes Logan’s

It is quite surprising that Eugene, a man who has dedicated his life to fight for his people’s political freedom from the threats of the nearly emerged government is a wife beater. His wife Mama seems to be a very calm, reserved and of repressive nature. She comes out as a woman always quiet, silently accepting his torture which he inflicts in the guise of religious ideology. Eugene’s extreme devotion for the new religion drives him to adapt harsh and insensitive villainous measures in

Girls, young women, and mature mothers. Society has consistently given women strict guidelines, rules and principles on how to be an appropriate member of a man’s society. These rules are set at a young age and enforced thoroughly into adulthood. When not followed accordingly, women often times too many face reprimanding through means of verbal abuse, physical abuse, or social exile. In the midst of all these strict guidelines and social etiquette for girls, a social rebellion started among girls and women and gender roles were broken, however the social rebellion did not and does not affect all girls and women. For instance, in less socially developed places, young girls on the brink of womanhood are still strongly persuaded to be a man’s idea of a “woman”.

This need to separate the angelic qualities of women into a totally separate world might come from the desire to protect one’s mother, and plays into the idea of the eternal feminine that must be preserved. “She has no story of her own but gives ‘advice and consolation’ to others, listens, smiles, sympathizes…” (Gilbert and Gubar 815). The aunt is a perfect example of such feminine qualities and represents the untainted light of civilization.

The time frames presented by the two authors reveal the scene of women being considered as the weaker sex. The two stories, however, exemplify an inner longing of the feminine sex of independence and freedom from their husbands. It suggests an inherent ?soul? of the women to overcome the male domination by means of showing independence and the idea that they can live by themselves without the presence of husbands. In the life of Louise, it is her statement

The novel "Little Women" is one of the great novels in the world literature. It’s a story of how both boys and girls confront cultural limitations. I advise everyone to read it. It shows how a person can cope with the most difficult circumstances if he is a believer and faces these problems patiently. It also shows that family solidarity is the basis for facing the hardships of life.