Jane Austen Critical Analysis

Sonnet 130 is written to express how different the Dark lady's attributes is from the era's ideal standard. Yet, the author finds her a rarity among the other idealized women. On the other hand, "Beauty in Ugly" by Jason Mraz, invokes the listener to understand that his intended recipient is ordinary and unremarkable. Yet, thee is beauty in ugly and she has other things to offer. Both works share a similarity in how they make an unremarked woman their focus, while at same time professing admiration for her.

Not only were they expected to reside in the home but women were also tied down through marriage with the expectation of blindly following their husband without challenging their authority. Kate Chopin’s short story, “Story of an Hour”, uncovers the chilling truth of how women were perceived to have longed and enjoyed marriage during the 18th and 19th century when in actuality many felt confined, trapped and imprisoned due to what society and men wanted them to do. The story reveals that the impending pressures of having to become a good wife and mother along with patriarchal societal oppression oftentimes pressures a woman into experiencing a psychological breakdown that can result in fatal consequences. Chopin begins the story with the protagonist, Mrs. Mallard, being told

Calixta began to worry deeply about her missing family. She become hysteric the feeling of uneasiness overcoming her. Calixta turns to Alcee for comfort but what started as a simple embrace soon turned into much more. Women who are engaged in an unfulfilling marriage like Calixta will turn to other men for comfort and intimacy.

Dreams are not guaranteed to come true. Myrtle Wilson, MYRTLE WILSON THE WHORE OF A WIFE, dies before achieving any of her dreams. She had an affair with Tom Wilson as an attempt to bring herself closer to the wealthy upper class, but she was never happy with what she had. In this novel, dust is a symbol representing the poor and desolate. When Myrtle dies, her blood is united “with the dust” (137, ch. 7), signifying how dissatisfying her life was.

She intentionally created a mysterious sort of persona as she kept her personal life away from the public. Nevertheless, from behind the guise of her numerous heroines, she managed to offer thousands of women the advice they needed to survive the prevailing issues of the eighteenth century.

Ihara Saikaku’s novella, Life of a Sensuous Woman, reveals several unpleasant truths present in the Tokugawa period through the tales of the nameless woman. Many of these revelations show how the allegedly ‘polite’ society is not the ideal that many revere it to be; instead it is often riddled with deception and moral decay. In the opening chapter, “An Old Woman’s Hermitage,” Saikaku introduces the old woman to the reader through two young men. They see her as placid and elegant in her old age, and she explains that she doesn’t maintain relations to others very well for she does not wish “to stay in the world” (594).

As we move through the passage, we see Adriana shift her emotions of depression away from her husband and towards her naïve sister. Adriana becomes so enraged with her sister’s comments, that she refers to Luciana’s mentality as “servant like” (2.1.26). Since servants were treated as the lowest members of society, it is clear that Adriana feels as though Luciana is making a fool out of herself. Shakespeare portrays Luciana in a manner that would suggest that she is an expert on marriage, which is contradictory in itself as Luciana is not yet married. Her tone, while initially understanding and compassionate, quickly turns into one of arrogance and righteousness.

To begin with, most of the females in the novel are seen as women of good manners, restraint, and purity. Simultaneously, they showed loyalty towards a person and believed in their right and wrong behavior. However, there was an exception with the character Marian Halcome which was seen as a rebellious woman categorized as a fallen woman. As for the males, they were seen as tender, patient, and disciplined, also known as gentlemen. In the novel, Sir Percival Glyde was seen as a gentleman but under the mask he was putting he surely was not a gentleman.

He later says, “I now hate the recollection of time I passed with Celine, Giacinta, and Clara” (Brontë 314). {Rochester admits that he regrets wasting time on women who didn’t mean anything to him. Brontë characterizes Rochester as a womanizer with a lack of sense to show that he is not completely a Byronic Hero because he is not smart about his choices and he cannot be isolated which is why he is so desperate to make Jane, who is not like the other woman he has been involved with, his

Even Mr. Hale was concerned about Minnie. The play, however, does not share the same emotions of how Mr. Hale's words could effect Minnie. The story has a greater influence than the play, invoking certain feelings about justice for abused women. The lack of details in the play "Trifles" is really an injustice to how the readers should feel about Minnie. The complex details that are lacking in the play are displayed freely in the short story "A Jury of Her Peers.

Daisy depicts to Nick and Jordan her desires for her daughter. While not specifically applicable to the novel 's primary topics, this quote offers a noteworthy look into Daisy 's character and how women . Daisy isn 't a “fool” herself however is the result of a social domain that, as it were, does not esteem insight in ladies. The more established age esteems subservience and resignation in females, and the more youthful age esteems negligent energy and joy chasing. Daisy 's comment is to some degree harsh: while she alludes to the social estimations of her time, she doesn 't appear to move them.