Risk Taking Love On The Late 1900s

Sara watched each of her sisters give up their loves for their Father and marry someone who gave money to him Sara knew that was not what she wanted for herself. It was one of the numerous causes that made her leave home. Being a young woman of marrying age in the 1920s, and being in poverty meant that someone would be lucky to be married and have children with a roof over their head. Sara wanted to have an education; she wanted to learn or herself, not to have a husband teach her what she needs to know. Seeing how her sister is in marriages caused to fulfill her dreams of wanting a real love because Sara felt that is she was educated maybe one someone will love her for being smart and not just being a female.

As the Roaring Twenties emerged a century ago, the Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Age, and Prohibition Era had blossomed; flappers, bootleggers, the New York Stock Exchange, and classic cars became undeniable evidence that America achieved economic prosperity. Lots of partying, hip music, and strange fashion would then have been the cool new thing to do. Unfortunately, this decade had sparked a significant boom in materialism and immorality within the nation’s wealthy. Under the illusion of overwhelming luxury and sexual desires, adultery had emerged as well among the rich population: fake love was in the air. Whether it is affection, sex, or money; everybody has their own interpretation of love. One can see true love as a strong, positive emotion

a story that reflects the subordination of woman in marriage. By the time of the early

At the time of this story many women didn’t have any source of revenue, so in order for her to gain the money she wanted to get the freedom she finally deserved; she would have to obtain it in two ways: inherited from her husband or receive it from her family. Mrs. Mallard was on her way to becoming the free woman she needed to be but there was this one thing holding her back, money, and the only the question was how she was going to get it in a respectable way. In the later half on the 19th century women looked at as the wife and mother, keeper of the household, guardian of moral purity of all who lived there. The home was to be a haven of comfort and quiet and sheltered from the harsh realities of the working world. Children were to be cherished and nurtured, and to pulling against these traditions was the sense of urgency. Women’s roles were meant to steady, but women could not help but see opportunities for themselves in this growth. Jobs opened up in factories, retail establishments and offices, giving women new options.

In this time period women don't have full rights. People, like Sara's father, think women can not live without a man to look after them. I think this is ironic because earlier in the novel he said that men can't survive without women caring and cooking for them, and now he is saying the complete opposite.

Women didn’t have it very easy on the Oregon Trial. They had many chores/jobs they had to get done. And those jobs were no walk in the park. They were hard, laborious, and dirty jobs. They were also often “handed” these jobs. Women were often taken granted for. In the men’s minds, they were trivial, but that was far from true. If women hadn’t gone on the Oregon Trail, it probably wouldn’t have gotten that far. Women and girls play a big rule in Women and girls had to adjust to very rough conditions.

At the end of the story, the husband has died. This could be seen as the womans “freedom”. Linda Wagner-Martin writes “She wins back her language, and vanquishes her husband--who has neither speech nor action by the end of the story. He lies as if dead in the path of her highly functional movement, and she simply crawls over him. The wallpaper has replaced the writing paper that he would have taken from her, and she has in some ways won back her right to speech and control.” The theme of the writing is the role of women in this time period and their dependence on men but at the end of her writing she has taken control.

First of all, you should not make promises you can’t keep, for example in the book the “Glass Castle”. Rex walls is a very intelligent man who promises his children Jeannette and Lori a castle made entirely of glass making of it his ideal dream. Thus, Rex tells his children to dig a hole in the ground so they could start saving money for the castle. However, Rex starts wasting his money on alcohol and filling the hole with trash. In

I agree with your point here, Fern is trying to describe the event in such a way that other women that are reading it can see just how unnecessary this is. She is trying to portray the fact that a marriage is a two way street in which I agree. In this time women lacked confidence it thought they had to go up and above to keep the attention of their husband which is not entirely true. Where you point out that it is impossible to create a perfect household, i believe is what fern is trying to ultimately say her and to try to comfort those young wives in their relationship. The fact that she is trying to teach them something that is not popular in society at this time was a big step for women

Women during this time period were only supposed to be in the house doing chores. Curley’s wife had more expectations. In her future she wanted to be a Hollywood star. As she grew up reality caught up with her. She got married and society only saw her doing household chores. In every man’s mind, women did the chores while they work. Curley’s wife’s dream suddenly went down the drain. Curley never paid her any attention and that’s when she started getting flirty with the ranchhands. All the ranchhands saw her as a slut, but all she wanted was to be noticed. She was lonely and wanted to socialize. She wanted someone to hear about her dream, but no one would. Society had it set that women were in charge of the house and only the house. They weren’t supposed to be out and about making big names for themselves. That’s why Curley’s wife’s dreams never came true. She was outcasted based on her

But what is one to do? I did write for a while inspite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal – having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition”. (Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper, 1898). Here one can see that the narrator wished to work and have a change in her domestic life, but the struggle to keep it a secret from her husband was too great because she knew he would not approve. Marriage, which is supposed to represent unity, love and the coming together of two equal partners was anything but that for the narrator. In the 19th century women were at the mercy of men, even though they marched forward for equality they were still very much dependent on their male counterparts. They were not allowed to have control over their assets and therefor marriage was the best solution to live a comfortable life seeing as their parents could not provide for their daughters forever. In The Yellow Wallpaper the prisonlike feeling that marriage causes the narrator, eventually leads to her insanity. Which for some was probably an actual occurrence in that era. More

Louisa Alcott’s novel Little Women is posed during the Civil War. There are four girls: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They live with their mother while their father is away fighting in the war. Little Women displays many themes. However, feminism is one of the important themes displayed. During the Civil War, women were expected to get married, and while Jo portrays feminism, she gets married in the end of the novel. This aspect demonstrates that even though someone wants to change the way something is, it cannot be completely changed because of society’s ideals. In Alcott’s novel Little Women, the author uses Jo to demonstrate femininity through the use of dialogue, imagery, and behavior.

The role of the women was seen much differently in 17th century. Women were looked at as the caretaker, who had the responsibilities of helping their husband take care of the farm, and do household chores. Rich women also had the slaves help them with their daily chores around the house and farm. Poor women had much more responsibilities. Women also had a harder time gaining a higher social status of what they were previously if they were not married. Within the novel we meet Rebekka, who is a sixteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in England. Even though she is white she only has the option of becoming a wife, a servant, or a prostitute. Rebekkah decides to become a wife and gets “shipped” off to The New World, to meet her husband, Mr. Jacob Vaark. While having a mail-ordered bride was not very uncommon during this time period

Women couldn’t support themselves legally without a man’s help, so that she needs to get married. When she is widowed at the age of nearly fifty, she is too old to marry again, so that she entered into a life of

couple we were talking about the arrival of love in old age and we tell you what are the advantages of boys in this stage of life.