...I Want a Husband Essay I am what most people would refer to as a husband. And, not surprisingly, I am also a father. A few weeks ago, one of my female friends divorced her husband of over 15 years. She had two children who, naturally, remain with their father. She is now looking for a new, younger, more attractive husband. One night as I was sitting at home massaging my wife’s back, it suddenly hit me that I would also like a husband. And why, exactly, do I want a husband?I would like someone who can work to meet all the financial needs of me and my children. He must have a stable, well-paying career because it is my duty to stay home and raise the children, even though they spend most of their time at school anyway. While I may have to bake cookies for the school fundraiser or make brownies for the soccer team, it is my husband’s responsibility to drive us to these events and cheer for the children because I couldn’t possibly risk losing my voice in such a harsh manner. I want a husband who will teach the children how to play sports, fix a car, or work any new technology in the house. I want a husband who can help the children with their homework because anything above arithmetic and beyond basic US history is too advanced for me. I want a husband who will get up in the middle of the night to ease the baby back to sleep while I get my beauty rest.I want a husband who is romantic. A husband who will never forget an anniversary and often surprise me with a beautiful bouquet...
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...the ways that they refuse to romanticise grief. In “Home Burial”, a woman is unable to move on from the loss of her child, which results in the separation from her husband. In “The Death of a Hired Man,” a married couple express their different feelings toward a man who used to work for them and that had come home to die. In these poems, the husband and wife respond to death in different ways. As a result, they disagree with each other have difficulty understanding the feelings of their partner. Frost uses dialogue in “Home Burial” and “The Death of a Hired Man” to show us the way that death affects the world and the people in it. In the beginning of “Home Burial”, we see Amy coming down the stairs of her home. On her way down the stairwell she “look[s] back over her shoulder in some fear”(Frost 3) and turns away. Her husband sees her asks her what she is looking at, “What is it you see / From up there always—for I want to know” (Frost 6-7). It is clear that the wife is petrified of her husband as she is unable to look at him. She is also uncomfortable in his presence as “her face change[s] from terrified to dull” (Frost 9). The husband is “Mounting until she cowered under him” (Frost 11). In this line, we realize that the husband is controlling in the way that he stands over her. He looks strong and powerful while the wife looks weak and submissive. The wife tells him that even if he looks...
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...Who Wouldn't Want a Wife Marriage is one of the basic institutions of society. It has been researched and analyzed for centuries. Most beliefs have developed and changed, but some have remained as the fundamental basis. They are called marriage stereotypes or tenets being declared as true without giving proper reasoning. . In her essay " I Want a Wife", Judy Brady uses a pathos to describe the duties of a wife in the 1970's while writing in a persona of a husband. She explains why she would like to have a wife. Marriage stereotypes are certain ideas which are held true about marriage and roles of a husband and a wife in it. In Genesis 2:18 God states that it is not good that man is to be alone and He makes a helper suitable, or comparable to him. (Bible) A woman takes on the role of a helper when she marries, along with cooking, cleaning, and meeting the families need, according to society. At the beginning of the essay, Brady mentions that she belongs to that classified group of wives, married and with a child. As Brady is ironing clothes she starts thinking "I want a wife" after she thinks of a friend that ended being divorced and was waiting to find a wife. The author then reflects on her life and starts to write in a persona of a husband narrating all the duties that a wife would perform, as if narrating her own personal life. Not only does she want a wife that works but also attends to children, along with keeping up with their doctors appointment and attend to their...
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...Not altogether incidentally, a wife and mother, Judy Brady subtly hints that wives are not appreciated for what they do for their families in her short essay “I Want A Wife”. Brady suggests, through the use of irony, that what is wanted and expected of wives is excessive and unorthodox. While using the words “I want a wife”, repeatedly, Brady satirizes the presumption that wives are desired for everything but being an actual wife, all while assuming an impassive tone in order...
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...My husband The most influential person in my life is my husband. Sometimes in life people might meet somebody who could completely change their lives. Influence doesn’t always have to be positive. Unfortunately, some people are influenced in a negative way, but not in my case. I am a very lucky person, because I have met exactly that man, who transformed my life to the best. When I first time came to the US, I met this wonderful Ukrainian man who is 6.23 ft. and has the most beautiful hazel color eyes I ever seen. We met several years ago and since then my husband was an example in many ways for me. My husband influenced me in three key ways: he taught me to value the education, to be closer to parents, and he awoke a passion of cooking in me. First, my husband taught me to value education. Up until moving to USA my parents treated me like a princess and I thought life would be easy as that always. My parents used to be solving all my problems, deciding all important decisions for me, and I thought that will be last forever. But when I met, at that time my future husband, I felt that I want something more than just be behind my parents’ comfortable backs. After a lot of thinking, I made my first own decision – to move to U.S.A. Very soon my husband proposed to me and we married after some months. Watching him work full time as a brilliant engineer and still pursuing his master’s degree I realized it was time for me to become more independent. I decided to go to college and...
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... Ms.Borg ENG3U1 January 9, 2015 Emilia and Desdemona’s loyalty to their husbands In Shakespeare’s play Othello, we can see two important female characters who show love for their husbands with a focus on the issue of loyalty. Desdemona, the wife of the protagonist who is known as Othello, and Emilia, the wife of the antagonist Iago. Although they are both loyal to their husbands, we can contrast how both woman portray the theme loyalty. In Othello we can see how both woman want to satisfy their husbands. Desdemona is known for beauty, intelligence and caring personality. Throughout the play, Desdemona shows loyalty to her husband in many ways. In Act 1, Scene 3 Desdemona explains to her father that she owes him for giving her life and education. Now she is married to Othello. “My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me how to respect you. You are the lord of duty. I am hither to your daughter. But here’s my husband. And so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess due to the moor my lord” (Shakespeare 1.3,182-191). Desdemona is clear that she will always be loyal to her husband. She explains her duty as a daughter and a wife. This shows us that she is loyal to her husband for eloping with him and going against her father. Secondly, In Act 4, Scene 2 Othello accuses Desdemona...
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...Contrast of The Story of an Hour and The Necklace Tammy Brettschneider Eng 125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: April MacGrotty July 23, 2012 As I read “The Story of An Hour” and “The Necklace” they both seem to be that of the late olden days in which women were meant only to be a housewife and nothing else but a housewife. They weren’t able to have any rights to anything that the men were able to do. For they where only aloud right to staying in the house, to do the house work and for most of all to take care of her loving husband and or the kids if they do have any. Back in those days the women weren’t even really considered to be human. Now in these days when there is a femain conditions that comes up it is considered it’s kind of hard to think that back in the days the women aren’t at all part of soviet like they are now. In the stories you can see that the women were both reflected by this. In here you see that the women both didn’t any type of status and they weren’t able to work out side of their homes. To me both of these women were and seemed to be in this thing...
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...very well written and very enjoyable to read. “The Sorrowful Woman” and A Secret Sorrow were similar, although they were very different, due to the inner sorrow they both faced. I enjoyed reading A Secret Sorrow more than “The Sorrowful Woman” due to the fact that I was able to somewhat feel what Godwin’s unnamed wife was feeling. I responded to the characters in an emotional way. I found myself able to sympathize with both Faye and Godwin’s unnamed wife. They both have very deep issues, but being a mother myself, makes me have more empathy for Faye. I could not imagine what it would be to want to push my child or husband, nor could I imagine not being able to have a child of my own. 2. Describe what you found appealing in each story. Can you point to passages in both that strike you as especially well written or interesting? Was there anything in either story that did not appeal to you? Why? In A Secret Sorrow, I found Kai’s love for Faye most appealing. He did not look at Faye’s inability to have children not as a burden, but rather a stream that had to cross together. He loved her either way. I believe his love for her was the help and strength she needed to overcome her inner struggle. The passage I found that most symbolizes his love for her on page 35 is as follows. “Why do you think I want you for my wife?” he continued on a calmer note. “Because you’re some kind of baby factory? What kind of man do...
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...Dear God, Will You Ever Give Me the Man of My Prayers? On April 23, 2007, I wrote the following in my beloved journal: Dear God, I want a Christian home. I want to raise a Christian family. One that goes to church on Sundays, is involved with the church, and prays together at night. I want a husband. I want a spiritual leader. [pic] Lord, will this ever be true for me? I want that man who prays for me, and I pray for him. I want a man that prays with me. I want a man that takes everyone to church on Sundays. Who’s involved with the kids at church. Who smiles because he’s drunk in love with YOU! Who relies on You. [pic] Lord, will this ever be true for me? I want a man who is unconditional in his ways (love, gifts, kindness, helping hand). Who doesn’t expect things in return – EVER. Who accepts the world as it is and doesn’t let it affect his walk with You. I want a man who wants to change the world. Lord, will this ever be true for me? [pic] I want a man that knows You!!! I want a man that will accept Your blessings even the small ones. A man that makes me feel like he can make a mountain out of a mole hill even if there is no dirt or rock to make one with. I want a man that is positive and understanding. A man that makes me push to be a better person. A man excited about life and looks forward to life after death. A man that has a spot in heaven and will help me in my spiritual journey. Because that’s what life is … a journey of...
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...woman’s attention. The man was reading and almost didn’t pay any attention on his wife. He was absolutely indifferent in that cat; but the woman wanted to get the cat inside. Then we saw the woman’s attitude to the owner of the hotel. She really liked him and there were words to prove it: “She liked the hotel-keeper. The wife liked him. She liked the deadly serious way he received any complaints. She liked his dignity. She liked the way he wanted to serve her. She liked the way he felt about being a hotel-keeper. She liked his old, heavy face and big hands.” The woman went downstairs in order to bring the cat at her room but when she left the hotel there was no cat on the street. She was upset and returned to her room. She said to her husband that she wanted the cat very much but suddenly someone knocked at the door. It was hotel-maid. In her hands she had the cat. “She held a big tortoise-shell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body.” She said that it was the hotel owner who sent the cat...
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... This might also be regarded as a case of parallelism, since as the story progresses we realize that the feelings of the girl are not that positive. Here author also uses alliteration of sounds [r], [l]: "Rain dripped from the palmtrees, the sea broke in a long line in the rain", it brings the rhythm to the description of the weather. The conflict starts to unfold when the girl notices a cat in the rain. “The cat sat under the table and tried to make herself so compact that shewouldn't be dripped on”.Suddenly the girl felt strong desire to get this cat. It must have been a miserable spectacle: wet, homeless cat crouching underthe table in the empty square.The girl decided to go down and get this cat, and here we get acquainted with her husband. He is lying on the bed, reading and...
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...Lyrics and Poem Do lyrics in the past as same as now? I think it probably the same, but it also have difference between them. There are two people from different times wrote the lyrics. During the puritan times, Anne Bradstreet wrote a poem called “To My Dear and Loving Husband”. In the twenty first century, Imagine Dragon made a song called “Shots”. They both use hyperbole, Imagery, and a common theme in their lyrics. Even though they are from different centuries, they use the same figurative language or common types in their themes. They both are written about what they wanted to say and they used song or poem to present them. Both “Shots” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband” contain imagery. In “Shots,” Imagine Dragons says: “ From the...
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...RIP Essay I write genre of diary and letter for my RIP project. Basically, it’s about a lady, Mrs. Chanler, comes to a detective because she thinks her husband is having an affair and she wants to know the truth, however, she is not a pure angel like her dressing that she also has her own dirty secrets. So the detective writes down diaries while he is investigating, and also a client letter to Mrs. Chanler. The audience of the genre of text is Mrs. Chanler. Seemingly, she wants to know whether her husband is having an affair or not because her husband doesn't return home and she loves her husband so she wonders to know the truth. My text’s purpose is to help her to know the truth and my text’s message is to claim that her husband is not...
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...Yellow Wallpaper and The Awakening I decided to examine the concept of femininity and liberty in a short story “The Yellow Wall-paper” from the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman and in the book “The Awakening” from Kate Chopin. I chose these two books in order to demonstrate how society in the nineteenth century treated woman and how those woman were trying to escape from this concept. Femininity refers to set of behaviours and roles which are appropriate for women and judged by certain culture. In the nineteenth century were women expected to stay at home and wait for their husbands´ return each evening. Women should have these four attributes: piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. (Rula Quawas,2006) Women who had these attributes were considered happy and satisfied. It was also believed that there is a sharp line between home, the woman sanctuary, and the economic world because it is a hard world only for men. The Yellow Wallpaper The story begun with moving of the main hero and her husband to the colonial mansion. Her husband´s name is John and he is a high standing physician. They moved for a while because she had to undergo a rest-cure. This method of treatment of the main hero of The Yellow Wallpaper is Dr. Mitchell´s rest-cure for women which included no intellectual stimulation and no writing. Her brother is a physician as well and agrees with her husband, but she doesn’t think that the way they cure her is right. “So I take phosphates or phosphites –...
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...that is displayed as a child to her husband. She responds affectionately to Torvald’s, her husband teasing. Although, she is seen as a silly girl as the play progresses it shows she is not the child Torvald calls her. Until she does something that is not childlike behavior to save her husband but against the law. Forging her dad’s signature to save his life. She tries hard to keep it from getting back to her husband thus she takes matters into her on hands. Henrik Ibsen conveys three aspects of Nora’s character rebellion, bravery, and independence. The critics view Nora as a childish woman who tries to make herself seems like the victim. When in actuality she went behind her husband’s back to save him, and it backfired. In the article by Joan Templeton he states, “She is accused as an irrational and lighthearted narcissist; an abnormal woman, a “hysteric”, a vain, unloving who abandons her family in a paroxysm or selfishness.” (Templeton, 29) This quote shows that he felt that Nora’s dramatic exit was one she put on herself by taking a loan her husband...
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