...because in the Secret Sorrow, the woman’s attitude is positive. She has the courage to keep going with her life. In A Sorrowful Woman, her attitude is negative and her way of thinking is selfish. However, the differences constitute problems in the Secret Sorrow, Faye cannot get pregnant, and so she was disappointed. In A Sorrowful Woman, the presence of her husband and child, made her feel sick and sad. She can’t stand to be around her own and only child, she just wanted her freedom. Contrast what marriage means in the two stories. In the story of Secret Sorrow, marriage means everything because the protagonist wants to have her own family. Otherwise, in the second story A Sorrowful Woman, marriage doesn’t mean anything, she just want her freedom. The monotony of different types of marriage and lifestyle. The story from Secret Sorrow by Karen Van der Zee was published in 1947. Faye, the main character, wants to have her own family with her boyfriend Kai. However, she can’t get pregnant because she had an accident in her past. Furthermore, the couple got married and decided to adopt. Ultimately, they finally had their own family and were happy. A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin was published in 1937. The unnamed protagonist wanted to have her freedom; being a wife and a mother made her feel depressed. However, in both stories, the protagonists want to have something meaningful in their lives, to make them feel complete. In the Secret Sorrow explains a woman’s challenge of...
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...Women that are to Sorrow In both stories A Secrets Woman and “A Sorrowful Woman” are about two woman centered on ideas of marriage and family. However, marriage and family are viewed and experienced in two different ways. Karen van der Zee shows a married life style with the perfect children and family in her dream; it’s what Faye, the protagonist of A secret Woman, wants for her happiness. While Godwin’s protagonist, marriage and family has already come true, and searching for a resolutions why she is suffocating of her home and eventually leads to her suicide. Both of the Protagonist in the stories have experienced a dramatic crises in their lives. In A S Secret Sorrow, Faye’s dramatic crisis comes before her marriage. She is discomposed because she can no longer have children, and she fears that her being unable to have children will prevent her from marrying the man she loves. Both Fays and her husband Kai always wanted marriage and children, and she assumes that it’s only under those conditions to be truly happy. Faye feels that she is incapable of having children now is a flaw. “Every time we see some pregnant woman, every time we’re with somebody else’s children I’ll feel I’ve failed you!” (36). Faye’s fears is not getting married to the man she loves and not having children. In “A Sorrowful Woman” The dramatic crisis comes after her marriage and family has already started. Unlike Faye, she would be blissful in this woman’s shoes, the protagonist of Godwin’s story is...
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...Monk Kidd's, "The Secret Life of Bees," the story of Lily's experience as a teenager transitioning into a young woman is explored. She begins the story as a naive, neglected child and by the end, Lily is a more matured, young women. Within her journey, Lily experiences the influences of spiritually and motherhood . Lily was raised in the 1960's South by her abusive father, T.Ray. Daily, Lily struggles with the void she feels for her mother and T.Ray's physical and emotional abuse. After discovering a town affiliated with her dead mother, Lily joins forces with her caregiver, Rosaleen, and they both escape their burdens that remain in Sylvan, South Carolina. Lily's burdens include the absence of a mother and her abusive father and Rosaleen's include an unjust arrest for being African American. The...
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...James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a short story that was written in 1937. The story features an elderly man who drives his wife into town for beauty parlor visits and regular weekly shopping. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” was published in 1894. In this short story Kate Chopin presents her perspective of the repressive role of marriage in the lives of women. This is shown by the fact that the main character, Louise Mallard, thinks that she will find freedom in the death of her husband. Both short stories share common theme of gender roles and marriage. Gender roles are defined as the behavior and attitudes that are strengthened by the stereotypical identity of an individual. The relationships among the form, style, and content of the two stories help us to understanding the essence of gender roles and marriage in the society today and back then. In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty is an elder American man who has retired and has nothing else to do except follow his wife around. Walter daydreams about the life he wishes he could have. The main focus of the story is to present a fantasy world rather than a realistic one. “The Story of the Hour” takes on a more dramatic effect. The story reflects an important hour for the main character, Louise Mallard. Louise experiences freedom in this hour. Just like in The Secret Life of Witty where the main focus is on the desire to escape from an ordinary life, so is the case with The Story of...
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...Although appearing ambiguous, Stockton’s ending proves to be lucid: the lady came out of the door. The princess had loved the youth “with an ardor that had enough of barbarism in it to make it exceedingly warm and strong”. She was “satisfied with her lover”. The princess even “possessed herself of the secret of the doors”, something that “no other person had done”. This proposes that she wanted to eliminate any possibility in which her lover may choose the door encompassing “the fiercest and most cruel” tiger “that could be procured”. Why else would such an inconvenience be executed? It is true that the princess had “gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair” as she dreamt of the youth opening “the door of the lady”. However, Stockton uses phrases...
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...writes that the Lady of Shallot’s “blood was frozen slowly” and her “eyes were darkened wholly,” after her death, Sir Lancelot remarks that “She has a lovely face,” when he sees her body in the boat (Tennyson, 147-148, 169). Porphyria and the Lady of Shallot’s tragic deaths are also related to the general theme of romance, although not in the way that one would expect, considering the era the poems are set in. For example, one would expect that the Lady of Shallot would be paired off with a brave and handsome knight. However, because she “hath no loyal knight and true,” she is affected by the curse of her magic mirror, which kills her when she sees Sir Lancelot. One would expect that Porphyria and her lover would have a healthy affair in secret, but Porphyria is suddenly and meaninglessly...
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...One act plays can be some of the most polarizing and engaging acts of art. Yet, after viewing director Jasmine Castello’s version of Trifles, it seems that the excellent source material conceived by Susan Glaspell has been let down by a lackluster production team. Written by Glaspell in 1916, Trifles follows a group men and women as the try and solve why an elderly woman’s husband was found upstairs with a rope around his neck, dead. While the men begin to search the premises for any inkling of the culprit, the wives who remain indoors discovers some dark secrets of their own. One of the strongest factors of the play was simply Glaspell’s material. Not only did it convey a sense of mystery, but it’s underlying message that you discover throughout...
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...He killed Benjamin Pitezel, who was also involved in Holmes’ insurance fraud, and convinced his widow that he was still alive. Holmes was scared that Pitezel’s children would expose him, and eventually killed them. H.H. Holmes was found guilty for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel, and one of America’s first serial killers was hanged in May of 1896 (Biography.com). Police later went to the “Murder Castle” to investigate and found a butcher's table, quicklime pits, bones, bloody clothing, and a crematory. The Tribune also reported that in the oven "They found a woman's watch chain. They found the buckle of a woman's garter"...
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...Indian Camp The Horror of Life from Birth to Death During the Modernist Movement, existentialist writers wrote about the meaninglessness of life. Existentialists believe that life is a struggle against the nothingness of the world. They believe there is no higher meaning to the existence of man, and they deny the existence of God. Ernest Hemingway portrays three different ways of coping with the meaninglessness of life in his short story “Indian Camp.” The three characters that portray the three different outlooks are Nick’s father, Uncle George, and the Indian father. Ernest Hemingway uses the environment in his short story “Indian Camp” to develop the thematic vision that there are different ways people can cope with the horror of life from the moment of birth and until death. In the short story, Hemmingway portrays a microcosm of life by including a baby’s birth and a man’s suicide in the short period of the story. The pregnant Indian woman struggles in labor for two days without any medical attention until Nick’s father’s arrival. Nick’s father describes to Uncle George after the procedure, “Doing a Caesarian with a jack-knife and sewing it up with nine-foot, tapered gut leaders” (18). The description of Ernest Hemingway INDIAN CAMP I guess the beginning of the story is quite usual and perhaps even banal. The son wants to watch his father brings new life into the world. He is a young boy who helps his father. But on the other hand, despite the fact that there is only...
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... This is an example of the inflexibility and harsh rules of the army which truly did exist. Mulan enlisted in the army as a young boy, without a whole lot of physical strength but the army was just as hard on her as anyone else. It didn’t matter what the excuse was, you were expected to serve, and serve well. There was great pride in serving in the army and many wanted to serve to make their ancestors proud. In the religion in China, it is important to make your dead relatives proud and help you get a better place when you die. Also, in Chinese culture, a woman’s place was one of quiet obedience. This was displayed in Mulan in the beginning when she was being prepared to be married off and was told to be quiet when she tried to say what she really wanted to do. Women were not allowed in the army and this was said during the movie, too. Also, when the women were getting Mulan ready, they used jade, which was believed to help balance. She was also dressed in silk, which the Chinese made and kept secret from other countries, so it was in very high demand. During the fight scenes in Mulan, there was much violence. This was definitely the way both the Huns and the Chinese fought in those days. There was no mercy shown and the Chinese leader showed no mercy even on their own soldiers. The Huns, in...
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...In English Renaissance drama, the focus on the body is apparent with the female tragic protagonist. Revenge tragedies tap into fears of female sexuality, relating more broadly to issues of to female agency. Women’s roles, their power, and the destruction of their sexual morals can often be linked to the societal and patriarchal control of their bodies. From Annabella from ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore to Gloriana from The Revenger’s Tragedy, control of women’s agency through manipulation of their bodies is profoundly evident. Revenge tragedy is a feminine genre in spite of the fact that the revenge protagonists are usually male and female characters appears to play more passive roles (Findlay 49). It is interesting then that the women of these plays brutally die. In this paper, I will exploring these issues of control over women’s bodies in Renaissance tragedy, analyzing how it effects their agency as free-minded individuals, as well as examining the condemnation it presents of female sexuality. To begin with, in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1633) by John Ford, the female protagonist, Annabella, has an incestuous sexual relationship with her brother, Giovanni. After Giovanni and Annabella make love for the first time, Giovanni reflects on why the losing of one’s virginity is so important (2.1. 1922). Annabella justifies that it is not important to him because he is a man. Here in lies one of the first instances of the sexual double-standard in the play, as emphasis on virginity...
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...[pic] Table of Content Acknowledgement Introduction Expository Piece Reflective Piece Rational Analysis Acknowledgement The successful completion of this project would not have been possible without the constant motivation from my teacher Miss. Gooden. Introduction This project is based on the issue of rape. Is consist of the causes, effects, preventive methods that can be taken to reduce ones self from being targeted. Expository Piece What is rape? This is the non-consensual act of sexual intercourse whether anal, oral, or vaginal penetration, that involves the lack of consent as a result of use of force, violence, duress, menace or immediate and unlawful bodily injury, or if the person is in capable of giving consent because he or she is incapacitated from alcohol and or drugs, or if a mental disorder or development or physical disability renders the victim incapable of giving consent. There types of rape are stranger rape and marital rape. Marital rape is sub-divided into three categories, these are violent rape, force-only and sadistic rape. Stranger rape is usually one off or someone you don’t know while marital rape the circumstances are different. It is quite apart from physical and sexual violation, a betrayal of trust because this is your spouse; the person that you thought you knew intimately, with whom believe was the last person to throw harm your way. Violent rape occurs as the name suggests...
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...Yahoo! News Finance Sports Top of Form Search Web Search Bottom of Form Home Manage Your Life Fashion + Beauty Healthy Living Parenting Love + Sex Food Astrology Featured on Shine: the thread: celeb fashion video financially fit make home a haven real-life makeover bikini 101 Top of Form All Recipes Search Yahoo! Shine for: Shine Search Bottom of Form Thursday, June 10, 2010 Subscribe to This Blog Add to My Yahoo! RSS Beauty Secrets from Around the World user by Woman's Day, on Tue Jun 8, 2010 7:12am PDT 42 Comments Post a Comment Read More from This Author » Report Abuse By Amanda Greene When it comes to beauty routines, the grass is always greener. Japanese women have it made with their long, glossy hair and Greek women’s olive-toned complexions are always luminous. But how do they do it? Put down your passport—you won’t need to go anywhere to find out. We got insider beauty information from experts on how women across the globe stay gorgeous. Read on to find out their secrets, and learn how you can recreate them at home. Australia Australian makeup artist Napoleon Perdis says yarrow extract is used by Australian Aboriginal women to prevent stretch marks, thanks to its moisturizing and hydrating properties. “Yarrow root is also an anti-inflammatory, which soothes the skin.” Calm your complexion with his Auto Pilot Pre-Foundation Primer , which contains the extract as a key ingredient. Chile Chilean women credit the antioxidant...
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...Abstract I have chosen to compare the two short stories “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, by James Thurber. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a short story written in 1937. The main character is an older man that drives his wife to town for beauty parlor visits and weekly shopping. “The Story of an Hour” was published in 1894. The main character, Louise Mallard, thinks that she will find freedom from the death of her husband. These short stories share a common theme, gender roles within a marriage. Each of the main characters in these stories has their own ideas about the gender roles that they are supposed to play, according to society and the time that they live in. The secret life of Walter Mitty and The Story of an Hour are based on a man Mr. Walter Mitty and a woman Mrs. Louise Mallard, whom believe that they have become prisoners within their marriages. They have to abide by the society standards of their era, divorce is not an option because all marriages have issues and the wedding vows need to be honored, “Until Death due us Part”. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Versus The Story of an Hour In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter is an elderly American man who is retired and has nothing better to do but to follow his wife around. Walter daydreams about a life that he wishes he had. The focus of this story is to represent a fantasy world opposed to a reality. “The Story of the Hour” presents a much more dramatic...
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...Sheila Mae T. Geroche PHILLIT AC122 Atty. Paul Gomez Hildawa Literary Text: THE VIRGIN Writer: Kerima Polotan-Tuvera Literary worksheet No. 5 “Details of Character” Analysis (Text, Context and Experience) 1. In two sentences, describe the physical characteristics of the protagonist. Miss Mijares, who is the protagonist in the story, is a 34 year-old woman, slender, almost bony and likes to wear a thick row of ruffles that made her look as though she had a bosom. She had smooth, clear brow, thin cheeks, small, receding chin, lippy and sensual pout and curly hair. 2. Directly quote the lines from the story which gave you those characteristics. “She was slight, almost bony, but she had learned early how to dress herself to achieve an illusion of hips and bosom... On her bodice, astride or lengthwise, there sat an inevitable row of thick camouflaging ruffles that made her look almost as though she had a bosom...”, “Her brow was smooth and clear and she was always pushing off it the hair she kept in tight curls at night. She had thin cheeks, small and angular, falling down to what would have been a nondescript, receding chin, but Nature's hand had erred and given her a jaw instead. When displeased, she had a lippy, almost sensual pout, surprising on such a small face.” 3. Describe the protagonist's goal, conflicts and background. Miss Mijares worked at a job placement office for ten years that made her very unapproachable, impolite, and superior. All her life, she was just...
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