A Doll House And Trifles Comparison Essay

Money, power, and success have blinded people into thinking they are in love and it has led to these women being oppressed. Tom and Gatsby in this book are what is called the patriarchy. According to Revise Sociology, the patriarchy is “The systematic domination of women by men in some or all of society’s spheres and institutions.” In Tom and Daisy’s marriage; they are both having an affair, Tom wasn’t at his child’s birth, and he oppresses Daisy physically, maybe by accident, and socially, by not allowing her to go wherever she wants to go. In Tom and Myrtle’s affair; they are both married, yet they have this affair, she is dependent on him because he oppresses her economically and psychologically, and he also oppresses her physically when he broke her nose.

China Achebe demonstrates the disrespect the Ibo men had for woman in Things Fall Apart by depicting verbal and physical abuse within the community. The men have control over a woman through power of authority. This physical and verbal abuse lets the men of the society feel empowerment over the woman. “ Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper” Achebe 12.

Their relationship continued even if Shug had a new husband named Grady. They talked about a lot of subject, including Celie’s sister Nettie. Shug helped Celie to discover how mister hidden the letters of Nettie for Celie. From the letters they learned that Nettie met a missionary couple, Samuel and Corrine with their two adopted children Olivia

In the play Trifles, written by Susan Glaspell, and the play A Doll’s House, written by Henrik Ibsen, there are two ladies who undergo two different situations. Mrs. Wright is someone who is assumed as the murderer of her husband Mr. Wright. On the other hand, Nora manipulates her husband by taking out a loan without his approval. These two ladies both face isolation in their relationships and eventually end up without their husbands. These two characters differ in their personalities, their actions in their marriages, and their overall marriage.

Women had one role in society to please their husband, take care of the children and handle the financial assets of the home and to think otherwise was ridiculous. Not only are women looked down upon they are treated horribly. We see this though the character Calonice in Lysistrata when she says "Suppose they grab us, drag us into bed" (159) Calonice was scared to stand up to her husband fearing he would rape her. Women we were seen as sex objects and we obliged to do whatever is told to them. In Lysistrata, the roles of women are reversed.

In “The Story of An Hour,” the theme of the story can be derived from two ideals: confinement and liberty. Mrs. Mallard, who feels dominated by her husband and imprisoned in her home, patiently waits her potential freedom. A reader may interpret Mrs. Mallard to be the average, stereotypical wife until her husband is falsely pronounced dead in a train accident. The reader then learns that Mrs. Mallard is not at all who she seems when she reacts in ways that reveal her true desire to live amongst her own company rather than other people. Mrs. Mallard felt confined to her husband and felt only his domination over her.

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun has been hailed by many as a feminist tale, which makes one wonder how famed feminist filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has yet to make a movie adaptation of this book. From her own experience in the film industry, she would understand how the "glamor" of it would attract Doris, and von Trotta would no doubt admire Doris 's determination to make it into the industry. If von Trotta were to make a movie adaptation of Keun 's novel, she would focus on how Doris is the "artificial silk" girl of the title. Much like artificial silk, Doris herself is easily "ruined," in the eyes of others, is always trying to look like something she is not, but is reliable when treated right.

The film is about an over worked and overtired housewife named Gloria who lives in a small apartment in Madrid with her two sons, one gay and the other a drug dealer and her abusive husband Antonio. The film is a typical Almodovar film which shows his peculiarities and sudden plot twists. From the beginning ,in my opinion Antonio is sculpted as an image of Franco from his irrational actions and lines.

The novel starts by introducing Mariam, in the beginning, she’s a self-conscious young lady with a mother who is despicable and suffers from depression. Her father has entirely different family and shuns her when she tries to be indulged in his life. Mariam is the banished child, due to Nana and Jalil having intercourse while unmarried, resulting in Mariam being illegitimate. At a young age, she was forced to marry a severely abusive man named

“Come on, come on! You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlors, wildcats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being fended, players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds.” (l.122-125. 2.1) Iago states that women only have two jobs- take care of the home, and give pleasure to their husbands in their beds. The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's, “The Canterbury Tales”, is a successful cloth maker, “At making cloth she had so great a bent she bettered those of Ypres and even of Gent.”

Rosemary Almond was a housewife that was abused by her husband, Derek Almond. Throughout the book we saw that she really loved her husband, but because of the stress that her husband was going through with the terrorist on the loose and the pressure from the leader he was mean and abusive towards her. She played one of the damsels in distress in the book because she was in situations where she needed to be rescued. First by her husband who abused her and almost shot her, but decided not to because the gun was not loaded. We can see that he hurt her badly in panel 6, page 65 where there was a red spot on her clothes because he slapped her and hit her for asking for them to be intimate.

To maintain a successful marriage relationship a man must support his wife socially, sexually, physically and economically. Failing to support your wife or refusing to do so could lead to being fined or imprisonment. Most women did not have jobs or own their own business. Their place was to be at home with their children; raising them and helping them grow into adults. It was women’s responsibility to educate their children and explain to them about religion and God.

“The Yellow Wall-paper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s and “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner are both short stories in which both female characters share an unstable psychological condition. In each story, the female character loves their husbands but is oppressed by them in their role of being a stereotypical woman. In the early eighteen and nineteen hundreds, females were expected to become dependent on men for their livelihood, which at the times lead to depression and hysteria of being a submissive female. The male characters were seen as being inferior between the women.

The first reason being, that the only psychological or physical stress Goneril and Regan had to endure from King Lear, that we know of, was knowing that they weren’t loved by their father as much as their youngest sister Cordeilia; along with some humiliation caused by Lear’s constant need of an ego boost. For Ginny and Rose, they also had to deal with knowing that Caroline was their father’s favorite daughter and some public humiliation based on the claims of mistreatment of their father; however, the mental and physical stress they had gone through because of their father 's actions far exceed anything we know Goneril and Regan had to endure. For Rose specifically, when her father raped her she felt obligated to play along with his sick game. She grew up knowing that it was wrong but suppressed those emotions to protect Caroline. Then with Ginny acting like nothing was wrong, because she buried the memories away for good, Rose thought it was okay to just act like it was okay.