While Louise believes her husband to be dead, she is shown to be thinking, “There would be no one to live for those coming years; she would live for herself” (Chopin 2). She does not want to live for her husband, as she would in a traditional marriage. This kind of self-assertion she exhibits could not work in a traditional marriage. In fact, marriage restricts freedom. As one is bound to another, they lose their independence.
People in many similar circumstances may react similar or differently to the way they deal with the situation. The wife from A.M. Homes short story “Do Not Disturb” wants to have a baby, but cant because of her situation and her husband just wants her to live. Yerma from Lorca’s drama “Yerma” wants to have a child, but her husband does not want to have any. Both stories are based o the fact that the women want to have children, but their husbands seem to be against their faith and decisions. While the Wife wants to die because she feels empty, Yerma takes things too far and leads to the death of her husband.
If Mr. Marsden found out who had signed the petition, then they would be blacklisted and if she wants to get her family back then she shouldn’t sign the petition. “She hadn’t realized how lonely until now-now that she was no longer alone” (140). Lyddie is realizing how lonely she had been, but now is coming to think she is no longer alone. This is a problem for Lyddie because Lyddie had missed her family and she was lonely. If Lyddie wants her family back together again she is going to have to pay off the debt as fast as possible.
There warn’t ever anybody but Ethan. Fust his father—then his mother—then his wife.” Winter is the obstacle that has been holding him back from success, but if the winter and Zeena are so much alike then it is actually Zeena keeping him from moving away. In a way, Zeena is like a ball and chain clasped on the ankle of Ethan. As a result, it defines her cold, bitter inner
The author is writing because she wants to inform her daughters, before she dies, of proper manners as well as how to be a good wife and women in general. "But I do grieve that you, my daughters, just now at the age for marriage, have not at this time had gradual training and advice; that you still have not learned the proper customs for married women. I fear that by failure in good manners in other families you will humiliate both your ancestors and your clan. " Zhao wants to teach her daughters to be honorable women and to put others first.
Moral conservatism believes that people have natural tendencies to behave in an antisocial way, so it is up to the state to provide religious training and traditional practices to maintain the social well-being. The majority of people who live in Mott Haven are broken families, because of all the issues. Which means that if poor families were to be relocated, they may end up as a broken family. Moral conservatism would be against the relocations because of this reason they do not want the family to be broken up and would try to prevent it from falling apart. In the article, there is a section talks about how women within the community become infuriated with the phrase broken family structure.
They are put through situations that really emphasizes how they cope with losing Devon. Opening Devons door, going to his funeral and getting back to normal life all led to a compromise between them. They both are struggling to understand each other 's way of thinking, especially since Caitlin as asperger 's. The person
Therefore although, both stories female protagonists followed their roles as an obedient wife they discovered they no longer wanted to follow those roles giving them the ability to go against their husband’s commands. Moreover, the narrator in Gilman`s story goes against her role as a wife by not being obedient to her husband John when he tells her not to write in her journal. Finally, Cisneros character Cleofila defies her role as a wife by leaving her husband Juan Pedro and returning back home with her father.
Edna is the main character in the novel who sacrifices herself in the biggest way possible. She realizes that she cannot face the terms of motherhood and the forced marriage to Leonce Pontellier. Edna wants to be the independent women that she isn’t allowed to be, which the meaning of The Awakening is that people cannot be forced to be in a relationship with a person they don’t truly love. Towards the end of the book after Robert leaves her and as she thinks about her life and the events that have happened that she regretted.
Together Christopher 's mother 's father are both very different Christophers is a loyal caring man and his mother is a impulsive loving woman. However these fundamental differences make for different core beliefs. Christopher 's mother is more oriented on her life and checking in on Christopher but not taking care of him all the time whereas the father is very dedicated to Christopher and typically puts his life on the back burner to insure Christopher is getting what he needs. These differences lead to conflicts and awkward interactions between the two throughout the book. This likely because she left him and Christopher on their own because she couldn’t handle the responsibility she had and also because her core beliefs didn’t line up with what she had to do.
When comparing these two relationships it’s obvious that both relationships have a problem. At the rate the first couple is in the stagnating stage, were they 're unable to grow and their distances because of the arguments and fights they always have. The terminating stage is really close for them, if they don’t do anything about their problems the end of the relationship might be really close. I believe that the problem in their relationship is that their is no balance in the relationship. My cousin 's girlfriend seems to not care about the relationship they 're both in.
So with Telemachus safe and far away from this place I was left alone to my own devices. Soon it became harder and harder to avoid the suitors and their insistent stares. They were banding together to force me to choose one of them and I knew that sometime soon they wouldn’t take no for an answer. I had gone years waiting for my rightful husband to return to me, but now it seemed almost impossible.
Finally, many of these women during that time period thought that as they once said in their vows till death did them apart that death was one of the options they have to get out of the unhappy matrimony without being deemed by society as the two main character point