We all agree that we have a special status in our country that represents a lot of our people or belief. Edwidge Danticat shows the strong meaning and symbolism behind the Madonna from his mother and others in the play Nineteen Thirty-Seven. In the story, a young girl, Josephine is struggling with her mother accused of the witch in the massacre in 1937. Josephine tries to keep her sadness to herself because she doesn 't want to show her mom. Madonna represents the pain and suffering of the Haitian women, especially Josephine 's mom. But in " Nineteen Thirty-Seven," Edwidge Danticat reveals the significant and the value of the Madonna from Haitian women, the story behind the status and the relationship between mother and daughter. Manman believes that Madonna provides hope and faith to the mother, mothers grand-mothers, and great-grandmothers. Josephine states that "At times, she seemed happier to see the Madonna than she was to see me" (page 449). She states this because he mother has a big faith in Madonna that she would protect her daughter and her from the pain. Madonna represents the suffering of women in those times. Madonna was presenting as the symbol of suffering that women have to deal with the …show more content…
Josephine feels guilty of visiting her mother because she can 't do anything for her. She sees her mom suffer and starving, which makes her sad. Josephine feels helpless because the madman was not living in a good condition in the prison. She has to hold the bread and water for a long time because if Josephine 's mother wants to eat, she needs to save the food for another day. In the story " Nineteenth Thirty-Seven," she states that "madman pulled the meat and plantains out of her pocket and started eating a piece to fill the silence. Her normal ration of food in the prison was bread and water, which is why she was losing weight so rapidly"(449). This shows the necessary that her mother was going to thrust into the prison because they have to keep food
Essentially, marriage in the 1700’s was seen merely as a means of birthing heirs and finding a way to financially support yourself, so it resulted in both men and women being devalued. It is universally known that women were often treated as inept and helpless rather than sophisticated people with autonomy and capabilities. In fact, during this time, “married women were consistently compared with minor children and the insane-- both categories of people considered incapable of caring for themselves. To marry a woman was, in one sense, to ‘adopt’ her-- or at least to adopt responsibility for all the circumstances of life with which she entered the marriage” (Teachman 39). Furthermore, when women got married, they would legally cease to exist.
In Fever 1793, Mattie’s family is always trying to do the best for her. For instance, she is always grasping for her family to stay with her. While her mother was sick she did not want to leave her side. Then
Edna broke free from the mold of her society. She was trying to find her purpose and her worth in a world where she did not have many rights or individual stability. Edna Pontellier worked to disregard the influence and power of men and society as a whole to discover more about herself and what she really wanted out of life (Bommarito). She gave up the “unessential” such as her home, possessions, and reputation to do things for
She also loved to cook for sick neighbors and relatives. So she put the two things she loved together. She would go to the store and buy a bunch of arsenic for the “rat infestation” in her barn. Then she would wait till she heard of a sick child in a twenty-mile radius and would go to their house. She preferred children because they would swallow anything and not question it as long as it didn’t taste too bad.
Since she was kicked out of her house at only fifteen, she had to turn to hitchhiking and prostitution for survival. Already at this point in her life she had a very low IQ and undoubtedly had been very psychologically damaged due to her
She started helping around the house, but when she figured out that it wasn’t much, she got a job at the fields and even though she had no experience in it she still went ahead and did it. “Mama had been strong for her. Now it was her turn to be strong for Mama. She must show her that she didn’t need to worry anymore.”(p163) Based on this quote, I can tell that she knew she had to be strong and her Mom’s sickness didn’t make her more sad than she already was, it motivated her to be strong for her mom and whatever was coming up.
“Mother tried to think of every contingency, including hunger and illness (Kingsolver 14).” The mother must care for her family by providing meals and medicine, no longer able to present herself in the church environment. Diseases such as malaria and kakakaka, as the natives call it, are abundant in the homes of the neighbors around the Price family. Later in the novel one of the daughters catches malaria, because she does not take her medicine and this becomes a hassle for Orleanna. When in Georgia, Orleanna has no concern for dangerous diseases such as this, but now she is surrounded by contagious viruses that distract her from the real reason Nathan brings the family along on the mission.
The cook had to make enough food to feed all the family from the house and afterward is when she and many of the other slaves would finally get to eat, which was usually the leftovers and often times it really wasn’t enough
Since he sees Edna as a valuable object, he expects her to be the perfect wife model in return- take care of the house, be very caring for their children, and keep up with the creole social standards that he sees necessary. “It would have been a difficult matter for Mr. Pontellier to define to his own satisfaction or anyone else's wherein his wife failed in her duty toward their children.” (9). Being the perfect husband in the Creole culture it makes it very easy to focus on his wife's character and her process of self
She considers herself better than the crew and has tea with the Captain, whom she considers her equal, every day. However, Charlotte’s feeling soon change as she grows closer to the crew. Because Charlotte was not used to the rocking of the ship, she got very sea sick. When Charlotte was sick the only person who took care of her was Zachariah, the cook. Zachariah spooned gruel and water into her mouth.
She watched her mother die slowly and she watched her dad struggle to take care of her. As a young kid or even as an adult watching the person who is supposed to raise you and teach about love, and everything you need to know in life will greatly affect what type of person you turn into. One of the most heartbreaking things you can go through as a child is watching your mother slowly die and then watching your father struggle to take care of her and provide for the family. Ida went through a lot, her mom was sick and then her mom’s sister Clara came to help out and caused a lot of drama in the family. All the fighting put a lot of stress on young Ida, “Mama charged Clara with sneaking into the house like an enemy, charger that she had always covered papa, berated her for taking advantage of illness to have her way” (283).
Danneka Sutton Ms. Antonaccci January 4, 2016 Women in the 1920 's Before the nineteen-twenties and still to this day some men still have the same mentality that women are only good for the kitchen and the bedroom. They were viewed as the weaker, and inferior to men, this is also how white men view slaves back in the eighteen-hundreds. The nineteen-twenties was an era of time for women to set a change to that mentality. In nineteen-twenty the nineteenth amendment was ratified which gave women the right to vote.
Although this allowed her to lose more weight, no matter how much she lost, she was never pleased. For satisfaction comes from acceptance of the truth. However, she denied the verity that she wasn't fat and didn't need to lose more weight. In her mind she thought ¨ If I can go without one day of eating, why can't I go without two days of eating¨?
A woman during the Enlightenment period was not accepted in pure academics, but they could find education from somewhere else, and they could have risks for searching for education. A woman during the Enlightenment period was not accepted in pure academics. A woman was not accepted in academics mainly because men believed woman were ignorant and would not be capable of understanding what man learn. Men at this time believed that women should only attend classes on how to become a perfect housewife to their husbands. The first image of this is seen when Madame du Chatelet was excluded from the Royal Academy of Sciences.
The film shows the struggle that these miserable women are going through after losing sons, brothers, and husbands to the Trojan War. The amount of times that these women discuss their mourning is unavoidable. It is nearly impossible to watch the film without feeling empathy for the women. This is very relatable for the many women who lost their husbands and boys to the war.