The Adulterous Woman Essays

The short story “The Adulterous Woman” by Albert Camus is focused on Janine and Marcel, a married couple, and their experiences traveling through Algeria on a business trip. While suffering the harsh conditions of their journey, Janine reflects on her decades of marriage and finds herself questioning her attachment to her husband. She portrays a negative image of her husband who she sees as inert and tied up with his work, having relinquished the passions and ambitions that he possessed as a youth

Like the narrator of “The Sisters,” the narrator of “Araby” falls victim to self-turmoil; however, this turmoil results from the narrator’s romantic pursuit. The narrator’s initial behavior, playing with the other kids in his neighborhood, would suggest a life unencumbered by internal conflict (Joyce 19). Through introducing the narrator as a seemingly normal child, Joyce challenges the paradigm established in “The Sisters” of the necessity of a decision of which others disapprove in creating internal

In Shakespeare’s play Othello, the male characters perceive woman as property of their own who have to be submissive and they treat them as adulterous. The male characters in Othello perceive women characters as promiscuous and adulterous. Iago being the character who strongly shows his perception that woman are promiscuous by concluding that his wife has deceive him with Othello and Cassio. Moreover, Iago creates and immoral image of Desdemona persuading Othello of this lie, ultimately, Othello

Giovanni widowed by the death of her husband, sees the intense pressure to marry by their brothers. But she does not want to marry anyone. Woman who can not succumbing to intense pressure from the brothers in the end says says to her brothers: “ I do not intend to marry well if you confirm. But if you want to marry me necessarily I do not marry someone else except Federigo”. (Decameron, 506). Giovanna says to the brothers finds this ridiculous response: “Brothers and sisters, I know that he has

misogynistic behavior through his views of women being cruel, adulterous, and frail. Fundamentally, there are merely two female characters in Hamlet; Ophelia and Gertrude. Though Ophelia does not intend on wounding Hamlet emotionally, she does so for being submissive to her father which conforms to the misogynistic attitude of women being powerless and pathetic as Ophelia is under control by

more, like Sinfield states “a woman should obey the male head of her family, who should be first her father (…) then her husband”, hence

In the essay “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kinston explores her aunt’s life who secretly gets pregnant and commits suicide with her child when it is born in China. The story basically begins with her mum telling a story about her aunt’s scandal that had never been told to anyone in the past fifty years. After Kingston’s aunt’s husband had left to America for many years, her aunt gets pregnant. It is obvious that her aunt had committed adultery. The rural villagers furiously raided their house because

modern gender norms of women behaviour. To start with, at the beginning of the play Desdemona is depicted by her father as passive, innocent and obedient. Like Sinfield states in Cultural Materialism, Othello, and the Politics of Plausibility “a woman should obey the male head of her family, who should be first her father (…) then her husband”, hence, when Desdemona marries Othello without her father’s consent she is, at the same time, disobeying the Venetian society; she does not enter the institution

crucial means by which the “physical being takes its place in society” and where that particular society “assigns roles to the individual and shapes the values” of that person (191). Accordingly, as ascertained by Penny Russell In Search of Woman 's Place, a woman of the nineteenth-century “belonged within respectable society to the extent that she was seen to be attached to her family and home” as they “determined to a great extent her place in the social hierarchy” (28). Thus, the patriarchal culture

Chopin was written in a time when women did not have the same freedoms men had. What makes Kate Chopin’s work very different was the fact that she wrote about things like adultery, which was in its self a controversial topic, but the fact that it was a woman who was writing about it made it an even more controversial. Kate Chopin was born in the year 1851 in St. Louis. She spent years after her marriage in Louisiana, where she became a mother of six. This explains a lot about her writing and the roles

Edna saw the only way out of her mundane life was to dramatically end it. She acted on own whims selfishly as well as ending her life selfishly with no thoughts or concerns of the affect it would have on her own family. While Calixta enjoyed her adulterous

these poems displayed something about how women were viewed and the way that they were perceived back in the Victorian times. The first poem “Mariana” is about a woman who lives in worn down house because she doesn't have any meaning to her life because she was never able to marry. The second poem, also by “The Lady of Shalott” is about a woman who was stuck in a tower weaving for her entire life, because if she left a cure would fall on her and she would die. She stayed in the tower growing lonely until

Instead of portraying a character who is strong and noble, as is common under a feminist viewpoint, Chopin creates Edna. There are a myriad of different ways that the author could have rendered Edna in a way to truly prove the immeasurable worth of a woman, but this aim is not achieved. Instead, the book details how Edna seeks out men to satisfy her rather than trying to improve the relationships she already has. The Awakening is a novel that fails to explain

romantic 19th century novel, The Scarlet Letter. Society places unrealistic standards upon women for physical expressionism in nearly every form and bemoans feminine sexuality. The Scarlet Letter hinges upon Hester Prynne’s “shame” brought upon by her adulterous affair with the seemingly pure Reverend Dimmesdale (Hawthorne 39). Of course, Hawthorne’s discernment of shame comes from the less-than-ideal standards of Puritan women of

worked for his father. The irony of Elsa’s life was that she gave birth to a boy who would one day become a heralded leader; the irony of her son’s life is that he believes in his noble blood yet truly comes from an adulterous affair with a peasant. In the epitaph of Lucinda Matlock, the woman describes her small town experiences at the “dances in Chandlerville” and playing “snap-out in Winchester” (Masters, 879). The irony in her life is that she had twelve children, “eight of whom we lost Ere I had

While reading in the prologue to The Wife of Bath’s Tale, during the times when I am able to read the story fluently and without having to divert my attention to overcome the difference in spelling, grammar, language, etc., I do find aspects of Alison’s nature amusing. Her quick to judge mentality and solid beliefs are explained to all in such a remarkably unapologetic way, even when her actions or thoughts appear to be questionable, that she often comes across as ludicrously self righteous.

In various Arthurian legends, such as Malory’s King Arthur and his Knight: Selected Tales, many characters find themselves involved in adulterous love affairs. Such sinful encounters with female characters hinder the completion of quests, especially for Lancelot. Bridges’s poem, “Lancelot’s Vigil,” provides insight on the consequences Lancelot faces due to infidelity. The view on Lancelot’s relationship with the female characters in each text changes from disapproval to sympathy, reflecting differing

meet her. Due to the enchantment, Lancelot saw Queen Guinevere within the castle. Seeing Queen Guinevere, the woman he loved, he made the decision to sleep with her. Lancelot’s decision to sleep with the woman who he thought was Guinevere demonstrates this willingness to attempt to betray King Arthur and commit adultery. Lancelot physically saw Guinevere and chose to commit an adulterous act. In the mind of Lancelot, he was truly sleeping with Guinevere within the castle. Technically Lancelot slept

However, there are countless women in the novel who we see at Gatsby’s parties “whose dress and activities identify them as incarnations of the New Woman, and they are portrayed as clones of a single, negative character type: shallow, exhibitionist, revolting, and deceitful. ”( Tyson122).These women do not exist as individuals and function only as decorative items as is seen in reference to a character

brings happiness through his short fiction works, especially "Anna on the Neck" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." In nineteenth century Russia, marriage was presented as "the career goal of the Russian woman, though she would find it ultimately a restrictive, confining institution" ("The Woman Question"). Serfs comprised around eighty percent of Russia's population; the landowners' restrictions required the peasants to