...The drover’s wife The drover’s wife is a short story written by Henry Lawson in 1892. Henry Lawson was a famous Australian writer, who lived from 1867 until 1922. He wrote fictive stories about the colonial period in Australia and is known as one of the most famous writers in Australia. The story is written during the colonial period, but that does not affect the story. The main theme in the story is the life of a lonely woman, who lives out in the bush with her four children. Her husband is a drover and isn’t home in long periods. Another theme in the story is the motherly instinct, and the will to always protect the family at any cost. The story takes place out in the bush in Australia. The family lives far out in the country, where nobody else lives. When problems occur there are no one to help, and the mother has to deal with it by herself. The eldest boy wants to help his mom when they have some problems, but she won’t always let him, because of her motherly instinct. The family lives in an old two-roomed house build of timber, slabs and stringy-bark. One day the family is out and one of the children sees a deadly snake, and calls the mother. The mother becomes dazzled and worried. They try to catch the snake because she wants to kill it, but the snake winds its way down under the house. The mother tries to tempt it out by putting small dishes with milk outside the hole. That doesn’t work, and they must let it be. It becomes sunset and the children have to sleep...
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...there are many different corrupt and flat out crazy characters. However, The Wife of Bath is one character that stands out the most. She is a strong, sexual being who does not care about obeying the rules. The Wife of Bath speaks highly of herself when it comes to pleasing her man sexually and does not believe that when one marriage ends that is it; she believes that more opportunities open. She marries five men, four of them for money and one for love. The Wife of Bath is not perfect in her tale but she keeps her audience on their toes, she is bold in her tale and stands behind her beliefs. The Wife of Bath is a very sexual person; she loves to please her man. “So help me God, I can’t help laughing yet/When I think of how at night I made them sweat”(Chaucer, 1328). She speaks about how she always keeps her man on his toes. She speaks about how it is God’s word that we must generate and multiply. This is why she feels that sex is good all the time, not only to please her man but to keep herself satisfied. The Wife of Bath feels that she has control of her husband’s body not mind. She did not believe that once her husband passed away that she was to become ugly and old but to stay young and fair. She went on to marry one after the other; she makes each husband pay off their debts. Only then can they have their ways with her. The Wife of Bath feels it is a waste to not let your husband enjoy his wife, “If I hold back with it, God give me sorrow!/My husband shall enjoy it night...
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...Steinbeck depicts Curley’s wife not as a villain, but rather as a victim. Like the ranch-hands, she is desperately lonely and has broken dreams of a better life. She's the only female character in the novel, and she's never given a name and is only referred to in reference to her husband. The men on the farm refer to her as a “tramp,” a “tart,” and a “looloo.” Dressed in fancy, feathered red shoes, she represents the temptation of female sexuality in a male-dominated world. How is Curley's wife presented and developed throughout the novel? Curley's wife is an example of how our perception of a character can change without the character actually changing. She is portrayed as both a villain and victim throughout the course of the novel. Despite Steinbeck's rendering she emerges as a relatively complex and intricate character who through the course of the novel, our feelings become sympathetic towards. Throughout the novel she is shown in different lights, as from section 2 to section 5 in the novel, her character evolves and her sweeter and more vulnerable side is shown in contrast to her first appearance which portrays her as imposing and a trouble maker. Throughout the course of the novel, it appears women are treated with contempt and Steinbeck generally depicts women as trouble-makers who bring ruin on men and drive them mad. Aside from wearisome wives "Of Mice and Men" offers limited rather misogynistic descriptions of women who are either dead, maternal figures or prostitutes...
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...Natalie Goldina English 098/261 Professor McColl 8/17/12 Wife-Girlfriend-Mistress Through a man’s lifetime he encounters different type of women in different stages of his life. First he has a girlfriend, falls in love, and makes her an honest woman a wife. After he has gotten tired of not being able to get satisfied at home he pursues a mistress who will be able to discreetly satisfy him without having to end his marriage. That’s why a man looks for a discreet affair to have, so he could keep his wife and keep a mistress. I think men truly can’t distinguish between a girlfriend and a mistress. Women are constantly controlling a typical man during his life. First, he is dominated by his mother, then his girlfriend, then his wife, then and his mistress. A wife is a feminine spouse in the marriage, who takes care of the mortgage, legal matters, and hospital bills. She takes care of the slightest difficulty so the husband doesn’t have to take care of it. She is part of the family, and takes care of the man and the rest of the family, whereas the girlfriend has no entitlement to family problems. A wife is the only one that is responsible for the cleaning, buying groceries, cooking, and laundry, making things cozy in the house while the husband is working. After doing all those chores she will have zero amount of romantic interest left to satisfy her husband. But she will wait on for her husband to get home safely. Whenever the husband will try to be nice and give...
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...Feminist Criticisms The Wife of Bath is the most revolutionary character in the “Canterbury Tales”. The Wife of Bath is portrayed as a woman who was witty and didn’t care about fitting in as the classic wife. Dame Alyson was aggressive when describing her feministic points of view and puts these views into action. She releases her fury towards men by taking control of them sexually. Dame constantly was antagonizing the common thought of society that a man should be in complete control of a relationship. She seemed crazy to be going against men during this time but that is what made her so revolutionary. Although she narrates herself as a woman who wants power over men she at points contradicts this practice which, creates some harmful stereotypes for feminism. The prologue labels who she is as an actual person and her experience while the tale describes what she is trying to achieve with men. The Wife of Bath lived in a time where men dominated all aspects of life. Dame Alyson opens up her prologue by telling us that during the course of her life she has had five husbands. She was first married at the young age of twelve which was not unusual during this time period. She has been criticized throughout her life because of all the husbands she has had. In the church it is perceived that Christ has only been to one wedding at Cana in Galilee and that it is only acceptable to be married one time. Dame Alyson was able to gain control of these men by using the power of sex to...
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...The Drover’s Wife, by Henry Lawson, describes a woman who lived in the old house which was built of round timber, slabs, and bark, and she married to man who is drover. This couple had four children. The story mainly tells readers about problems that the drover’s wife met and she tried to deal with without husband’s assistance. One day, there was a snake in the house. To protect her children, she stayed awake all night to guard her children while her children were sleeping on the table in the kitchen. At the end, she and her snake-dog killed snake and burnt it in the next morning. Among all characters represented in the story, I am interested in Drover’s wife the most for three main reasons. First, she was a clever and patient woman, for the fact that she had fought all difficult tasks without husband’s help. For example, she was used to being left alone because after she married to drover, they met drought of eighteen months that made her husband leave home. Therefore, she did all tasks in family such as looking after cows, taking care children and so on. She is also bright because during snake in her house it was sunset and thunderstorm was coming. She could not stand outside her house, and then she quickly decided to pick up several armfuls of firewood into kitchen and took her children there. Finally she made table in kitchen as bed for children sleep. Second, she was not only a protective wife but also a good wife because one day after there was snake in her house, all...
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...The Samaritan Woman with Five Husbands Throughout historical and societal achievements, there have been famous writings that have sparked controversial topics and debates. One such writing is the “Wife of Bath” the character of this tale is a woman named Alisoun, she speaks her mind on the condemnation of wives in her time, and how men of that age have looked down upon women as devious creatures. But Alisoun we will find is a contradicting women in her prologue, as she describes her life experience with five husbands; through her expressions and words will a picture be drawn of what she really was as an individual. Alisoun starts off by stating that she is an authority on marriage, due to her life experience with five husbands. Like the Samaritan woman in the bible that she compares herself to, she has been criticized on her numerous marriages (lines 5-14). Yet she shows a religious side of her in challenging the clergymen of her day with scriptural verses and examples, she also expresses a view of God’s plan. In the line “God bad us forto wexe and multiplye”(line 28) she endorses the verse wholeheartedly, now it is my belief that she seems to be a cunning women. For as she is right in quoting this text as a relation to God’s plan, at the same time she is also using this text as a “scapegoat” or excuse to indulge in her passions and pleasures as a women. Though she admits that innocence and virginity is important (lines 80- 93)...
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...account, that is sensible enough to substantiate serial marriage. And I believe, I know just the right person to solicit. 5 marriages with no regrets and still having enough caliber to hunt down “the sixth”, Wife of Bath proves to be the appropriate someone to inquire. Wife of Bath’s prologue begins with the launch of torpedoes and missiles aimed at ‘authority’. It’s more like a full scale war; her very first lines are like ‘Super marine spitfire’s’ intercepting ‘Luftwaffe’. The authority here is the pseudo-male favoring society. Wife of bath questions this authority based on her experience, she uses her experience as a tool against the church and the aristocracy prevalent during those days, where it were the men who said what women should be or should not be. She challenges the authority of these powerful men who were part of the clergy, who laid down principles for women, whom they had very little knowledge, and their everyday lives. Wife of bath tries to triumph over this authority; she believes in experience over authority and certainly considers herself as a power on marriage and sex, given her five marriages. She establishes herself as an authority on all matters of marriage. Women, in the time of Chaucer, were cast into very specific roles. In her prologue, the Wife of Bath addresses the general code of conduct and other commonly accepted behaviors of women and dismisses them to justify and rationalize her own life style of being married many times. This Authority works...
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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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...Men labor was crucial for the survival of the land and the prosperity of the colonies. As for other sex, women where inessential to men but for bearing children and maintain their household. This fluctuations in the population had an overwhelming effect on women since many historians believe that women came to the New World with the advantage of disproportionate ratios that allowed them to get husbands in the colonies. However, even if they had an advantage in certain matters it was not as uncomplicated as they make it sound "[...] practically all the unmarried immigrant women arrived as indentured servants and consequently married late.", as stated by the authors Lorena Walsh and Lois Green Carr in their book, The Planter's Wife: The Experience...
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...Anonymous In the 1970 essay "I Want a Wife", by Judy Brady, The author effectively showed her message, Brady was a women, underappreciated and fed up with it The author wanted to express some resentment in what men expect of women a wife. There is a somewhat humorous tone to the way Brady sends that message in her writing, No person could fit the model of wife she illustrated, Brady shows that she and other wives are somewhat robbed of things, that men take for granted. Brady writes this essay in a first person point of view. She is writing as the man who wants a super wife. She makes a list of the responsibilities that a typical woman from the 1970's would have. According to Brady "If by chance I find more suitable as a wife than the wife I already have, the author states “I want the liberty to replace my current wife with a new one." That is a clear of how Brady feels she and other women are treated unjustly. In the 1970's it was an era that marriages strongly reflected what Brady was trying to say. In that time I think that the essay was calling out, she is a wife and wants to show other wives that they aren't the only ones fed up with the system of marriage. The author states "I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a wife. And, not altogether incidentally I am a mother." I think she just wants people to know that she wants to reverse roles. I don't think in today’s society that this is as much an issue as when Brady wrote this essay. While true...
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...Research 2.1 | Husband and Wife Differences The hypothesis of this article to me states that they are trying to prove that men are more likely than women to report exposure to and to be distressed by work and financial events. During this paper I am also supposed to put what I believe is the type of research this study demonstrates. By reading the book and the definitions I would say that this research article is would be kind of a mixture of both. I would say that they are trying to figure out the meaning behind it and also the cause and effect of the stressors on the different genders. This to me makes this a mixed methods type of research and I will briefly explain why below. The reasons I think this is mixed methods because if you read the definition of quantitative research it states that it is a comparatively structured research that emphasizes cause and effect relationships among variables, using data represented by numbers. In this research subject they have a controlled group to do the study and they keep a tally to help prove their conclusion by using questionnaires or statistics. This to me is structured which would make it more quantitative than qualitative. I also think it is mixed method to an extent because they dipped down into the phenomena side of the research with the statement “Financial stress... increases hostility among men more than among women, but wives are more likely than husbands to report somatic complaints in response to the same stressor...
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...Alexis Thomas Mr. Fielder CP English 11 16 March 2015 Being a Loving Wife Being married is not just about the love but its about the bond, connections, being able to put up with all the drama that you and your spouse have. Death of a Salesman and Fences have two things in common the things that Linda Loman and Rose Maxson go through with their husbands. They both are brave, strong and caring women. In Fences, Rosa is a 1950’s-era housewife, she cooks, cleans, and stand by her man when he can be a jerk sometimes. Rosa don’t let Troy walk all over her, when she learns about troy affair she tells him off by says “ You always talking about what you give.. and what you don’t have to give. But you take too. You take.. and don’t even know nobody’s giving!” (Act 2 Scene 1 pg 71). Yeah she agrees to help raise Raynell, but the mother dies in childbirth, Troy begs her to raise the baby as her own she tells him “ I’ll take care of your baby for you.. cause.. she innocent.. and you can’t visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child had got a hard time.. From right now this child got a mother. But you a womanless man. (Act 2 Scene 3 pg 79). In Death of a Salesman, Linda is a Willy’s doting wife. her mission is to protect Willy’s emotions and dreams. She doesn’t know the full picture, from his finances, to his job, to his mistress. She is clueless, thats why she defends her husband’s behavior even when he lashes out on her but no one can argue, she is...
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...Reaction paper to The Wife of Bath Prologue I love The Wife of Bath. The tale features a character that seems to resemble a feminist. But in Chaucer’s time, feminism was something completely crazy and the pilgrims reacted negatively to it. Even though the pilgrims thought she was bonkers, The Wife of Bath had no fear about displaying herself as she really was. She wasn't ashamed of the fact she had been married five times, and was about to marry again. She hid nothing. She was fierce. In the prologue that I read, the pilgrim did not see the Wife of Bath as an upstanding woman, but she didn't desire to be seen as what one would call an “upstanding woman.” Almost as soon as she began speaking in the prologue, she explained that she had gone through five husbands, and she was on the look out for a sixth. The Wife says that she married for money: "...I’ll tell the truth. Those husbands I had, three of them were good and two of them bad. The three I call “good” were rich and old.” The Wife even goes on saying that she didn’t value her husbands’ love. Then again, why should she have to? She received everything her female heart desired: money, control, and power. She swears if all women were be the controlling factors in marriage, they too would gain their husbands’ money. The The Wife for Bath's character reminds me of many women I know, but one really sticks out at the moment, and that's Blanche Deboroe from the 80s sitcom “The Golden Girls.” The Wife of Bath claims that if women...
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...also characters with the least amount of power on the ranch, like Crooks. We can all see that Crooks has the least amount of power because he is black and because of his back injury, but I will be focusing on Curley’s Wife. Although she doesn’t have the least amount of power, Curley’s Wife is still extremely weak by simply being a woman and even more so by acting like a tart. Throughout the book there are multiple mentions and examples when Curley’s Wife is seen as overly flirtatious even though she’s a married woman, she is also never mentioned by name and constantly referred to as Curley’s Wife. “She put her hands behind her back and leaned against the door frame so that her body was thrown forward.” This is how she acts when she is only barely meeting George and Lennie. She is already trying to catch their attention and using her body to her...
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