Essays on Married Woman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is a fictional depiction of her own experience. Once, she was forced to undergo a course of treatment for what the doctor felt was a severe nervous breakdown. The psychiatrists in those days, in the nineteenth century, were in the habit of looking at a woman as a domestic animal and diagnose her mental disorders as a result of her distorted domestic life. Gilman fictionalizes her experience in order to highlight the state of the subordinated life of a woman in her days, particularly the suppressed state of a married woman. ...

Kate Chopin’s novel, “The Awakening,” is a novel that entirely talks about the life of a newly married young woman. This woman unfortunately feels that her freedom is significantly curtailed. As for this reason, she goes about various errands in a bid to get her personal freedom since, in her view; this move will make her live a more reasonable and fulfilling life (Chopin 25). But the way to go about it presents her a major turmoil, how can she manage to get her personal freedom in a society that defines a woman not by her character, but ...

The story "The Story of the Hour" written by Kate Chopin presents new and revolutionary view of marriage near the end of the nineteenth century. Through the character of Mrs. Mallard, Kate Chopin presents the position of a married woman trapped into marriage and the possibility of different life when a husband is out of the picture. Symbols of heart and open windows and the use of irony as a powerful literary tool are dominant in this story and they give its readers an unexpected ending. The story is set in Mrs. Mallard's house. The writer explores reflections of ...

“In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered” (Hawthorne, Chapter 6 p. 98). The quote above generalizes Pearl’s character. She was the daughter of Hester Prynne, a woman living in the standards of the Puritan society condemned by the people as ‘brazen hussy’ who bears the scarlet letter ‘A’ fantastically embroidered upon her bosom (Hawthorne, Chapter 2 p. 57). ...

The underlying possession that the main character in the story goes through is uncertainty, shifting of roles and trauma. In the broad description of the narrative, the author wants to show how hard it is for humans to deal with change. A good example of a character that had difficulties dealing with change is Taraka. Taraka was Sita’s friend, who committed suicide after discovering that she was pregnant and unmarried. Taraka could not handle the changes that had happened to her body. She also feared the wrath of her father if he could discover that she was married when ...

“The Story of an Hour,” “I Want a Wife” and “Trifles” all touch on the subject of marriage and especially the role of a woman according to the standards set by society. They highlight the irony of married women, though sailing in the same boat that is marriage; all face the same problems all on their own. In the three stories, the importance of a woman is secondary to the man in the institution of marriage. Perhaps one of the more prominent themes in all the three books is how both genders identify with each other and their accepted defined roles ...

Introduction

If life is to be generally characterized in one word, then this word could indeed be the word ‘journey’. Life no matter the unique meaning each individual gives it, has always been considered as the journey of human existence in universe. The route of each journey, its destination, the places which are to be visited and its aim are all different according to the unique personality of each traveler. But one thing is for sure. Each individual once provided with this valuable, priceless gift knows that this gift is only given once so the journey had better worth it. ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two sisters, ...

“The Lady With The Little Dog” by Anton Chekhov is the simple story of a man who stays in a loveless marriage but finally finds true love in an unhappy married woman, with whom he has an affair. Even though the man looks down on women classifying them as “an inferior race ” (31), he successfully falls in love. This love could be hazardous to his marriage with his wife, yet the nature of love triggers his unstoppable desire toward the woman. What his attitude is when he truly falls in love with the lover? Given images and diction, the story could ...

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Women in Lebanon

Certainly, European trends affect the change in the attitude towards women in Lebanon. But at the same time an important role in changing the usual stereotypes of society and changing the traditional understanding of the role women have played War, War Torn Lebanon. The civil war, which lasted for more than 15 years of Israeli occupation, which ended in 2000, the Syrian domination, completed in 2005, have led to profound changes in the structure of society. These changes were made and the status of women, their rights and lifestyle. War show ...

Introduction

Literary critical theory is a complicated process - there are many different ways from which one can look at a story. The question remains, however, whether or not these readings are valid. Is the process of literary criticism a means of mental gymnastics, where theorists can force a reading into a text like a child pushing a square peg in a round hole? Looking at the various theorists who make up the most prominently observed members of the literary critical canon, it becomes clear that the act of reading itself is an interactive one, with the reader bringing just as much into the experience of reading as ...

Dalma Heyn's book Marriage Shock tries to explain why many women are not satisfied in their marriages and why most divorce cases are initiated by women. As the name suggests, the book tries to show the shock that people, women especially get when they get into the institution of marriage. According to Dalma, many women's frustrations in marriage result from the cultural view of what marriage is supposed to be like and what is expected of an ideal wife. After people get married there are unwritten rules in the society that govern marriage and dictate the way in which ...

The Work-Life Conflict among Married Women

In the contemporary world where modernization, urbanization and realization of women’s rights are inevitable, work-life imbalances are rampant. The imbalances and inconsistencies between work and family life mostly impact on the various career women who are married. The problem becomes even worse where the working married woman is a mother to children and more so young children that still depend on the parents to a considerable extent. The women get themselves torn in between the demands of the workplace and the social commitments to the family and other social units. The difficulty in striking a balance between occupations and commitment to ...

Introduction to Shakespeare’s Sonnets

According to Senna (10), the sonnets are among the best and most popular works by William Shakespeare. In addition, some have been adapted as plays in English literature. Written between 1592 and 1598, the sonnets total up to 154 in number. Senna (10) notes that Shakespeare’s sonnets were not officially published until 1609. This form of play-write common during Shakespeare’s era lost its appeal even before his demise (Senna 11). The sonnets try to show Shakespeare’s adulation of a young man and his admiration of a married woman (Senna 12). Some authors mixed Shakespeare’s sonnets with ...