The Wife's Story By Ursula K. Le Guin

Through Women’s Eyes by Ellen Carol DuBois and Lynn Dumenil addresses American History from 1865 until present day. The third edition of this textbook includes visual and primary sources over several centuries. I used this textbook in a history course, “Women in the United States, 1890 – Present;” I found the textbook to be engaging, helpful, and useful throughout the course. The way in which in the information was presented allowed me to learn, assess, and analyze the difficulties women faced.

Roger Ebert once said "Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you." In the short story "The Wife 's Story" Ursula K. Le Guin creates the mood of suspense by using foreshadowing and other literary devices. Suspense is a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. The entire story is filled with the state of feeling of uncertainty as the wife solely alludes to the major event. It is also obscured in mystery.

The World’s Wife is name of a collection of poems by Carol Ann Duffy. The poems are re-telling the most widely known stories about gender relationships and the traditional views of women. In all of the original versions, that are widely available, we hear what men tell us about the things that happened. They mostly discriminated women’s roles by narrating the stories in a way that they liked, and they hide real truths. In contrast, Duffy is basically trying to focus on the women’s versions of the stories in her poems or the “missing truth”. Though most people generally misunderstood that women are weak and dependent, there are many examples of strong, independent, and intelligent women that were hidden in the stories that are told by the men.

The article, The Cult of Womanhood: 1820 - 1860 written by Barbara Welter discusses the philosophy towards women in America during the mid 19th century. A set of demands and expectations based upon four principles: piety, purity, submission and domesticity were placed on women as well as certain behavioral expectations left 19th century women feeling guilty. It also left women feeling this way during the industrialization period as well as having a huge presence of incompatibility with society. Welter shares her viewpoint that the Cult of Womanhood was an attempt to preserve pre modern values in the industrial age. Men held a dominant place in society and continued to prevent new opportunities for women to explore. Narrow minded

In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, the informally-speaking narrator depicts a cookie-cutter utopia with perpetually happy citizens that sing and dance in the music-filled streets during the Festival of Summer. However, under one of the beautiful public buildings lays a child, no older than ten years-old, who lays in its own excrement. Although the citizens know the emancipated child is there, they refuse to act upon the child’s suffering, for their happiness depends entirely on the child’s abominable misery. Through ethos, the narrator illustrates this utopian society with a casual tone and frequently asks the audience for their input. Le Guin’s fairy-tale introduction of the story establishes her credibility through her extensive knowledge and understanding of the people of Omelas. Le Guin utilizes logos through the narrator’s second person point of view which incites the audience to draw their own conclusions about the city of Omelas and question their own justifications of the child’s existence. The concept of the happiness of many relying on the necessary suffering of one forces the reader to question their own morals and their justifications for the child’s physical and mental condition. Through ethos, logos, and pathos, Le Guin presents the contrast and divide between the citizens of Omelas and the child in the cellar in order to challenge the reader’s capacity for moral self-conception.

Throughout history, Australian has always been perceived as a land of men. This is due to the colonization of Australian during the eighteen and nineteen century, where men are seen inferior to women. They also are domesticated within the house duties that the society has influence because of their gender. Although, Henry Lawson “the drover wife” and The Chosen Vessel” by Barbara Baynton challenges the Australian society through Australian literature by placing women in harsh environments. The drover wife is short stories about women who face the new obsolesce while living within the harsh environments. The Chosen Vessel has a similar aspect of the drover wife but the lead female experience the harness of the environment, which lead to her death. Both women display their own straights and heroics while facing their fears, through their selfless action. They are both portrayed of women of the bush but their fate had stored different outcome for both women. This essay will examine both the drover wife and the chosen vessel both contain a simple plot, but it expands on many issues of gender expectation and domesticated within the household role of the expectation of women. It will also examine the religious aspect of the historical narrative that has been seen within both bush stories.

In her graphic memoir Fun Home, Alison Bechdel tells the interweaving stories of her upbringing, her father’s life and death, and her own journey to come to terms with her sexuality. Bechdel tells these stories in a largely nonlinear fashion, arranging scenes by common theme rather than chronologicity. The only exception to this rule is chapter six, “The Ideal Husband”. This chapter recounts the summer of Bechdel’s fourteenth birthday, during which a number of milestones occur. By abandoning her preferred method of story-telling, Bechdel exposes the similarities between these events and also demonstrates the profound impact these events had on the course of her life.

In “The Wife’s Story,” the wife “[talks] in a very conversational way” about how she discovers her husband is a werewolf that turns into a man; through the deception, the short story suggests how everyone is equal (Lubke). At first, she believes that “There wasn’t any bad in him, not one mean bone” (1 of 3). In fact, everybody believes that he is jovial and amiable. He is "a hard worker and never lazy," earning the respect and support from the other wolves, while the pups look up to and admire him (1 of 3). Although he is greatly revered by others and loved by his wife, she notices strange behavior from him every so often.

A Tale of Two Divorces written by Anne Roiphe in 1995, discusses two different situations in which a divorce was necessary. One must agree that marriage between two individuals do not always work out and you are given an ultimatum, but not everyone decides to look both ways. In A Tale of Two Divorces, Roiphe explores a "tale of two divorces, one that never was and one that was" (Roiphe). The first case that is brought up is one amongst Roiphe's parents who were in need of a divorce, but did not occur. Roiphe's father was a man who was well-off; he was tall, handsome, athletic and intelligent. He was everything a women dreams of. On the other hand, Roiphe's mother was the opposite. She was short, conservative, and unattractive in one's eyes.

Once upon a time there man who loved his wife very much. He would do anything for her, and her for him. Till one day his wife passed away, he couldn't live without his love. So one night under the blood moon he sold his soul to the demon to bring back his wife, with that he needed a sacrifice from a living thing. So the man chose a wolf, when the king of wolves found out he was very mad. Soon he put a spell on the man, the man turned into a half wolf half man, a werewolf. He walked to his village were all the villagers shung him. Soon he went mad from loneliness, he went back to the village and turned all the villagers into werewolves. Soon that turned into the first pack of

“The wife’s story” by Ursula K. LeGuin is told in first person view, this means that the “The wife’s Story” will be told in the perspective of one character in the story. One reason why I think that “The wife’s story” by Ursula K. LeGuin is told in first person view is because she is a primary source and she was there to experience everything. Another reason why I think the story was written in first person view so we can get a better connection with the character. For example this means that we can relate to what is happening to the person who is telling the story. Also, I think the story was told in first person view so that we could read her part of the story and what she was experiencing. Yes I believe that first person view was effective

In “I Want a Wife” by Judy Brady, Brady displays her thoughts about the conventions of marriage and the social pressure that women faced at the time (1971). On the other hand in “The Story of an Hour.” by Kate Chopin, she creates a story in which a woman believes she is free from her bonds of marriage when she finds out she is not she dies from a heart attack. One line in “The Story of an Hour” that conveys this is “... a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.(14)”

By day he walks among other humans, lives among them, and few if any suspect his terrible secret. It is only by night, those autumn nights when the moon is full and the wolfsbane blooms, that the change overtakes him. The fur grows. The teeth become long and sharp. The claws pop out, and he drops to all fours. The mind and soul of the man undergoes a metamorphosis, a complete transformation into those of a deadly wolf.

But it picked up a heavy fallen tree branch in its long white foot, and shoved the end of that down into our house, at me. I snapped the end of it in my teeth and started to force my way out, because i knew the man would kill our children if it could. " she never even took the time to understand why he had changed into a human, she never took a second to realize she is no different from him because she is a wolf. She let the love of her life die in vain because she

This was how it had been for awhile. The days following the funeral were a living hell for the young woman. She lived by herself, and was constantly terrorized by her own paranoia. She was afraid the wolf would find her, and do to her what it did to her sister. Sharp, dagger-like teeth ripping open her throat. Claws shredding her face like scissors on paper. Menacing growls