Theme Of The Gre's Bride

Seeing as she did all of this without her father’s knowledge shows that she still to immature to face her father with what she wants, so she did what she wanted to do out of what she saw as love but others see as an act of rebellion and lust.

The Wife of Bath's tale is a tale about a knight who rapes a woman and has to be punished by the queen instead of the king. Instead of the queen killing him or jailing him she gives him a chance to go find out what do women desire the most. So he embarks on his journey and never finds the answer, until he runs into an old, ugly woman. She gives him the answer, only after he pledges his troth to her. So, when he tells the queen that most women desire sovereignty and control over their husbands and relationships he is set free and has to marry the old lady. He is distraught later that night so, the ugly woman gives him an ultimatum. She could remain ugly and be faithful to the knight, or she could be pretty and unfaithful. After being torn, he lets her decide, and she decides to be both pretty and faithful. After that, they live happily ever

Marriage, a broad theme in this book, can be broken down throughout. Emma’s sister has gone off after getting married and left her alone. After her sister’s marriage, Emma proclaimed that she was not destined for love and made herself the town’s unofficial matchmaker. The entire novel is built around relationships and matchmaking, with Emma and Mr. Knightly, Harriet and Robert Martin/ Elton, and Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill.

“Girl” provides a relationship between a mother and daughter. The story represents Kincaid in her youth years. A mother giving her daughter advices on becoming a “women.” Kincaid makes sure

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Father's old-fashioned sexist views about women clearly represent the Old World with its outdated traditions, and life-crippling laws. Practically everything he preaches is contradicted by his actions and later proves to be false. For example, when confronted by his wife about unpaid bills, he preaches that money is not important and that spiritual life guided by God's laws should be a goal of every human. Yet, later, when the time comes to merry off his daughters, the only thing he cares about is money. He does not care about his daughters' feelings. Their desires and opinions mean nothing to him. He thinks that women are dumb and are not capable to pick a right spouse. He also thinks that they don't deserve to make a choice and their happiness in marriage is not important. He vies all women, including his Daughters and wife, as brainless slaves, who are born to serve their men. "It says in the Torah, only through a man has a woman an existence." he proclaims. So he sees the marriages of his daughters simply as business transactions between him and the highest bidder. The goal of the transaction is to provide the new husbands with servants and give him, the father, a material benefit in the future.

Although it is the wife who is always looking for a husband in her personal life, in the Wife’s tale, it is the man who is forced to find what it is that all women desire. In the end he is obligated to marry, while the Wife is always excited to marry her next husband. The Wife wants the woman in the marriage to make the decisions and to have power, which is also seen in the old woman in her tale. In her tale, the old woman basically tricks the man into marrying her, and then into kissing her. This gives her control and she can then reveal her true self.

I believe that the two characters are mother and daughter because of the odd way that they interact with each other and the ladylike concepts that they mention. I think the woman that is speaking to the ‘girl’ are her mother because fathers and daughters don’t regularly have conversations that slut shame children for no reason: “on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (320). The mother has a lack of faith in her child because she demeans her to prove her points about femininity: “this is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming” (321). In a way, the woman could be viewed as the girl’s teacher because of the values and ideas that she is instilling such as how to deal with love as well as your social status: “this is how you smile to someone you don’t like at all” (320).

The old women which the knight has just married is trying to show him the way to happiness, even if it is not something he wishes for. The knight is finally granted the wish for making his old and ugly bride turn into a beautiful young bride. Having relatable context that we can relate back to, as well as rules we can follow makes chaucer’s “The Wife Of Bath” a more effective story than “The Pardoner’s Tale”, which has non successful meanings throughout the story. Unless you count the riders trying to reach their destination, and then stumbling on the land of

There are always a “to-do list” and a “how-to-do list” in the life of a female. In a patriarchal society, female responsibility includes “Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry…” (Kincaid 1). At a young age, a mother would trained her daughters several things, so they can become a proper lady. Kincaid inserts “this is how you iron your father’s khaki shirt so that it doesn’t have a crease…this is how you sweep a whole house…this is how you set a table for dinner…this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make good medicine for a cold…” (Kincaid 1-2). The mother controls her daughter and told her to act like a proper lady. The limited talking of the daughter in the story also reveals that there is no talk back, only obey. The instructions for her daughter illustrates the gender formations; the mother want her daughter to act like a lady because she knew if her daughter refuses, she would be called a slut. In a patriarchal society, women’s role is to serve men. The mother trained her daughter so that she was able to serve her future husband

          In an attempt to reflect the girl's changing awareness of her social identity and femininity, Munro weaves in a young sorrel mare, Flora. As the expectations of the girl's pending role in society grow, Flora takes up residence in the stable and adds an "air of gallantry and abandon" (470) to the girl's sheltered life. Just as the girl experiences confusion and angst, "Flora [is] given to fits of violent alarm" (470) of more of tangible nature. An approaching crossroad in Flora's life, namely her death, parallels the crossroad of identity the girl is facing. With the realization of Flora's death, the girl adopts "a new wariness, a sense of holding-off, in [her] attitude to [her] father and his work" (473), causing her to question the very foundation of her social opinions up to that point. By allowing Flora to escape through the gate, the girl symbolically opens the passageway to her feminine side. Even in its futility, this act sets the

As read in “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, it was known that she was the only daughter out of six sons. In a stereotypical scenario, if a girl is born into a family full of boys, she is a “tomboy” or sporty. In Cisneros’ case, she decided to branch out and oppose of her father’s expectations of a woman, and do something with herself. “What I didn’t realize was that my father thought college was good for girls – good for finding a husband” (112). Personally, I would not only be offended but embarrassed if any man, let alone my own father would look at their own daughter in a way such as that.

The same can be said for Egeus, he most likely perceives his daughter as property due to the influences and cultural norms of his time, rendering their father-daughter relationship to have a seemingly forced and not heartfelt love. (Shakespeare, 1610-11/2014). These practices still exist in the world we live in today. For example fathers in Iran have almost just as much control over their daughters as Egeus did over Hermia, they can still force their daughters to marry and even what to study (Kousha, 2002). A Father’s expectations of daughters in cultures similar ancient Greece and Iran are so low that if a first-born daughter has trouble with an occupation, it is assumed that the second and third daughters will as well and therefore that occupation will be removed as a career possibility before

In conclusion a father is a significant figure in a daughter’s life. In which he should influence, encourage, and empower their daughters. In the poem My Father in the Navy, Cofer shows her father positive relationship influences her life. In contrast the poem Daddy, Plath shows disastrous relationship negatively impact her life. Both of these poems examine the convoluting relationship between fathers and

If I had been a boy, my birth in a bountiful year would have marked me as lucky, a child with a special destiny to fulfil. But daughters were curses. A daughter had to be married off before she could even enter heaven, and dowries beggared families for generations. Gods with infinite memories visited the girl children on women who needed to be punished for sins committed in other incarnations. My mother’s past must have been heavy with wrongs. (Jasmine