The paintings of Claude Monet include three main stages of a woman’s life, which are youth, matrimony and upbringing a child. The first stage of a woman’s life is youth entitled “Lily Butler in Claude Monet’s Garden”. Youth could generally be defined as an age of people between childhood and maturity, which based on cultural or social viewpoints of the particular society. The painting represents a young woman dressed in white long attire, arching herself a little to the front to pick up a small flower into her hand. It seems that the woman merely stares at the flower in her hand, and adores it with her sincerity. The narrative implies that the young woman is so carefree about her freedom, so determined in youth, and yet so cheerful …show more content…
Upbringing is an act of parents instructing a child about general knowledge or ethic based on diverse viewpoints of each person toward the society and norm. In this painting, the artist mainly focuses on the young girl character who plays hula hoop in front of her house, having her mother heeding at her play. For the location, it is a relatively small and lovely house located in a fresh garden in some country. There are a few trees at the background and six pots of flower arranging at the front door. The atmosphere is adequately splendid for a family to spend time outside. Although there is a morning sunlight shining from the right-hand side of the painting, the girl is protected by the silhouette of the house, in which her mother stands. In this stage, the painting indicates that the woman’s focus is now averted to her child’s direction instead of her life, by showing that the young girl is standing in the central part of painting. In the prior stage, the woman still put herself under her husband’s responsibility; however, after she gave birth, her conception had changed, and she wanted to become a protector of her child. Therefore, the action seemed reasonable and practical to the mother in terms of taking priority of their child ahead of her live as well as other mothers. In addition, women generally give their prime attention to a child when they become a mother regarding the instinct of most