Stereotypes Of Mistresses

This turns out to be an ironic contrast to life at the Weylin plantation, where a slave who visits his wife without his master's permission is brutally whipped. Perhaps a more painful realization for Dana is how this cruel treatment oppresses the mind. "Slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships," she notes, for all the slaves feel the same strange combination of fear,

This personal confession shows that Mrs. Mallard, though she will mourn at first, now is free to “live for herself,” (228) not for her imposing husband. Before her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard believed she was in a healthy, normal marriage. This death revealed to her how while she cared about her husband, she despised the lack of freedom her marriage had given her. All of the realizations that Mrs. Mallard reaches during her time of reflection shows the readers exactly why she will no longer mourn the death of her husband.

In the Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs argues that her master had an undesirable obsession for her. An obsession she did not want, but could not escape. When Jacobs turned fifteen, life changed drastically; she had gained an unwanted eye of her master. Though her master was afraid to have his inappropriate behaviors and impure thoughts gossiped through town or reported to her grandmother, “he was a crafty man, and resorted to many means to accomplish his purpose” (Jacobs, 52). Despite the fact that Jacobs feared for herself, she felt as if she could not escape her unwanted fate. “My master met me at every turn, reminding me that I belonged to him, and swearing by heaven and earth the he would compel me to submit to him” (Jacobs, 53). Due to his undying

TS: In the novel, there is a strong correlation between men romanticizing their woman, and men using and taking advantage of their women. This is shown through various factors.

think that she is cheating and revels in this victory by saying “in his own

Once Jacobs original mistress passed away, she was sold to a manipulative and lustful master. Forty years her senior, Dr. Flint, began to manipulate her at the age of fifteen “ But I now entered on my fifteenth year—a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear (chapter V).” The manipulation not only troubled her, but her mistress became jealous and full of hatred over fourteen year old Jacobs. This caused tension between the mistress, Dr. Flint and Jacobs. Jacobs directed to the audience that beauty is an asset to those who are not slaves, but an immense disadvantage to slaves. Jacobs understood that she is able to induce the jealousy and anger of Mrs. Flint, “She will be compelled to realize that she is no longer a child. If God has bestowed beauty upon her, it will prove her greatest curse. That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave (chapter V).” Although, Mrs. Flint was aware of the manipulation, Mrs.Flint could not control her husband’s behavior towards Jacobs. Thus, leading Mrs. Flint to take her jealousy and rage onto Jacobs. Even though Mrs.Flint understood that Jacobs was not in control of the situation, Mr. Flint was. “I was an object of her jealousy, and, consequently, of her hatred; and I knew I could not expect kindness or confidence from her under the circumstances in which I

Because the story is written in diary format, we feel especially close to this woman. We are in touch with her innermost thoughts. The dominance of her husband, and her reaction to it, is reflected throughout the story. The narrator is continually submissive, bowing to her husband's wishes, even though she is unhappy and depressed. Her husband has adopted the

Unfortunately, people like Jacobs’s mistress were “like angels’ visits-few and far between” (50). Typically, slaves were viewed as “merely a piece of property” (10), and therefore, this ideology reflected how masters and mistresses punished their slaves. Such punishments included “whipping slaves until pools of blood filled their feet, the tearing of flesh by hounds, men screwed into cotton gins to die, and even more alarming, young girls dragged down into moral filth” (74). By the age of fifteen, or what Jacobs referred to as “the sad

At this point she simply finds no other way but to accept the stereotypical view of a young innocent girl in a relationship with an experienced man, another example of women being victims of male authority. The key to the bloody chamber is the key to her selfhood and subjugation that will ultimately kill her. ‘The protagonist’s husband clearly considers her an object of exchange and plans to inscribe upon her his continuing tale of punishment for wives’ disobedience’[viii] again showing how women make themselves victims of their own behaviour, Helen Simpson’s interpretation is that ‘I really cant see what’s wrong with finding out about what the great male fantasies about women are’ [ix] The heroine fights against the victimisation, and indeed reverses role with the male in the story, as it is Marquis who dies and it is the female who leaves this chamber and finds happiness.

It not only threatens, but also breaks through. Betrayed by love once in her life, she nevertheless seeks it in the effort to fill the lonely void; thus, her promiscuity. But to adhere to her tradition and her sense of herself as a lady, she cannot face this sensual part of herself. She associates it with the animalism of Stanley's lovemaking and terms it “brutal desire”. She feels guilt and a sense of sin when she does surrender to it, and yet she does, out of intense loneliness. By viewing sensuality as brutal desire she is able to disassociate it from what she feels is her true self, but only at the price of an intense inner conflict. Since she cannot integrate these conflicting elements of desire and gentility, she tries to reject the one, desire, and live solely by the other. Desperately seeking a haven she looks increasingly to fantasy. Taking refuge in tinsel, fine clothes, and rhinestones, and the illusion that a beau is available whenever she wants him, she seeks tenderness and beauty in a world of her own making.

Perhaps you are saying to yourself "I already knew this but couldn't prove it." Whether or not you could have guessed this information or have possibly lived to tell your own stories about juggling the responsibilities of family-life and work, the underlying and disturbing question is, how can this be so today? How can it be that modern women who have seemingly come so far in becoming recognized as thriving active members of business, politics, and society in general still be struggling with the same gender roles with which their grandmothers dealt? How is it that women have broken out of many of the confines holding them back from the public sphere, but women are still expected to fulfill traditional roles within the private sector?

Suggestive behaviour made towards colleagues which has a sexual motive, or unwelcome sexual advances are forms of sexual harassment. Both men and women may be victims of this. Sexual harassment is not mentioned in sex discrimination legislation, although such legislation has been used in a considerable number of harassment cases. There is a European Code of Practice that advises employers on how best to prevent sexual harassment. However, employers are not legally bound to it.

It will also seek to identify the nature of sexual relationships between masters and their slaves. Jacobs describes an incident when at about 12 years old her mistress had died . She explains that she and her mistress had an amicable relationship. Her mistress had taught her that God’s word required one to love one’s neighbor as themselves and hoped that her mistress would release her from bondage. Her mistress had however bequeathed her to her five year old niece. This act caused her much grief and made it clear that her late mistress did not quite consider her a neighbor.

This role of the damsels also comes into play with her character design. The Damsel is a blond with long hair, red dress and she has a lot of cleavage showing. Lets start with the blond hair, the blond hair in itself has a lot of stereotypes attached to it. The most known one would be that blondes are dumb followed up by how they are not street smart, how they only focus on their looks and how they are weak. Bringing this all you can see the stereotypes in the design itself. The damsel looks like it put a lot of time in her look to come down into this cave the main character is exploring. She failed to dress appropriately for what should be a hard to traverse rocky path. This damsels is dumb to even try going into the cave wearing a red dress

“It’s not the profession that has the glass ceiling, someone has put it there” (Brower 162). Men need to change their attitudes and actions towards women in the workplace. They need to abandon believing that they are superior to women. Most men truly believe that a woman is simply not capable of doing as well of a job, or better, than a man can do. Therefore, they become extremely unsupportive of women and fail to recognize their accomplishments. They decline to give women raises, higher executive positions, more responsibility and overall respect. Many men have very subtle and low-key ways of showing their discrimination. These men know that it is unlawful to discriminate against women, so they do it ways that can have no reprimanding consequences. They will go out to lunch, dinner or drinks with the guys, claiming that it is just a time for male bonding. But the truth of the matter is that most business relationships develop over these “bonding times” therefore, leaving the female employees out of the equation (Brower 160). Other men are not so subtle. Male bosses often deliberately overlook a female employee for a promotion by making bogus credentials that only a male would be able to fulfill (Brower 162). Men aren’t planning to become pregnant and take maternity leave as often as a woman does. My mother has come into contact with both types of men. She has been scanned