Daughter

Like Father Like Daughter There are different kinds of relationships that you could have in your life. There is the friend relationship, where you do everything together, laugh or cry together. Then there is the brother/sister relationship where you either try to kill each other or you are all over each other. Also, there is the marital relationship which is unconditional. The mother/daughter relationship is soft and gentle. The mother nurtures the daughter and teaches her to be a very…

Family: In the short stories “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D.H. Lawrence, the protagonists, Elisa and Mabel, are treated poorly by their families because they are women. In the short story “The Chrysanthemums”, Elisa’s husband, Henry, does not treat her equally and does not treat her like a person. She is just kind of treated like she is Henry’s possession. “‘Good,’ she said. ‘Good for you.’” (Steinbeck 2) This shows that her husband runs the farm…

Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, is the story of a conflicted mothers and daughters who are discovering the family history and the lost relationships of their matrilineal line. Ignorant and blind to the past, Ruth’s mother, Liu Ling, is becoming forgetful, consequently Ruth sets out to rediscover her family. She acts upon her realisation to decide that the gap between her and her mother needs to be closed. Set between San Francisco in the late 20th century and Peking, China during World War…

Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter outlines the cultural struggles the author faced as a Chinese-American. Born in America, yet raised Chinese, Wong began to form her identity in the middle of this cultural clash. On one hand, Wong witnessed the promotion of individuality from American families, on the other her family taught her individuality is less important than the family as a whole. Various cultural factors pushed and pulled Wong throughout her life – some she embraced, some she…

The Rape of the daughters of Leucippus is representational work of art. It is realistic in its portrayal of human form and contains no extreme and obvious distortions of the anatomy. However, whether it is realistic is another question. In the art world it is considered realistic. However Baroque artists portrayed women as more buxom than they really were for that day and age. People had to engage in a lot of physical work and did not have an excess of food, the average person was much thinner…

specifically figurative nor purely abstract. Two later works by Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, 1930 (Fig. 52) and Interior with the Artists Daughter, 1935-6 (Fig. 53), suggest the artist’s ongoing interest in decorative design and abstraction. Both works depict Bell’s living space: her London studio at Fitzroy Street and her country home in Sussex. In Interior with the Artist’s Daughter, the young woman is seen sitting in an armchair at the artist’s studio in Charleston, absorbed in her book and…

after one year when she was dumped by her boyfriend. She ran away to England hoping for a different life. They form the central characters of the novel, A Partisan’s Daughter, by Louis de Bernières. Here, I am attempting a reading of the novel in the light of Steph Lawler’s essay “Stories and the Social World”. A Partisan’s Daughter is an apt study of stories, storytelling and the place of stories in the social world. De Bernières, here weaves a story of loneliness and of storytelling itself,…

The Father-Daughter Bond: A Dress Rehearsal for Life We always hear about the significance of male figures in their son’s life, which is certainly a precious bond. They are very critical in the proper development of their sons. However, what typically remains omitted from research studies is the importance of fathers in their daughter’s life. In contrast to studies from the past, we should now consider the importance of the father-daughter relationship. Daughter’s make conclusions about what men…

stereotype of the young, pure, virginal, and beautiful girl is perpetuated in Hawthorne’s Rappiccini’s Daughter. This text shows a difference in the construction of women, but women are still desired. The young female in this text is not considered a woman, but a girl because of her virginal status, which makes her single and available and untouchable. The young man, Giovanni, admires Beatrice, the daughter, from afar at first because he has not been introduced yet. Here the metaphor of the…

the smallness of her feminine weapons, Mabel apparently uses her body and primal instinct against Jack. Consequently, as Shigley states in “Jerking the Leading Rope: sexism and phallocentrism perpetuated through D.H. Lawrence’s The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,"” Mabel exercises this power upon Jack, ultimately seducing him and taking advantage of his weakness for her. Upon doing this, Mabel capitalizes upon her dominant sexual position of being superior to a man[...]” (Shigley). As Shigley…