Housewife

In the short story “Lamb of the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, the loyal, loving housewife Mary Maloney, in her 2nd trimester, waits patiently for her husband to return home from work. When he returns, Mary receives unexpected news that will alter her life forever. She makes a spontaneous decision that could change her life even more dramatically. One thing drives Mary Maloney to loose control: revenge. Thursday evening, the night Mary Maloney and her husband, Patrick, go out for a nice dinner. On…

1960s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films. But while her character and scenario may seem familiar, Sherman’s Still image #21 is entirely fictitious; they represent clichés (career girl, bombshell, girl on the run, vamp, housewife, and so on) that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination. While the picture can be appreciated, it comes to one’s individual identity (Web…

Victorian Women: Society’s Puppets In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator of the text was depicted as a woman suffering from an anxiety illness that she identifies as real, but her blinded husband, John, thought she wasn’t sick at all and all she needed was to rest for a while. As the text progressed, the narrator began to become connected to the yellow wallpaper in the nursery room she was staying at, seeing things move within the wallpaper and even seeing women…

and the ‘doting housewife’, are titles that suggest qualities of submission. On the contrary, pregnant and underemployed, Skyler White, from the television series, Breaking Bad, is the one in charge in her household. Skyler monitors their every move. She thinks of herself as Walter and Walter Jr.’s ‘moral guide’ and should therefore involve herself in situations in which they are incapable of making decisions for themselves. In this way, Skyler is a critical and dominating housewife hell-bent…

the story of Jane, a woman who suffers from "nervous depression” (113). In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman demonstrates the oppressive social roles expected of Jane, the narrator, such as not having any aspirations other than that of a submissive housewife and mother. First, Jane 's husband and physician, John, has total control of both Jane’s mental and physical reality. The combination of Jane trying to be a submissive wife and her inactivity due to the "rest cure" prescribed by John results in…

In Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll House, Nora Helmer is the first main character introduced. She plays the role of a stereotypical housewife. She has many negative and positive traits. These traits help to build and develop her into either a flat or round character. Nora is a round character because she has a very complex personality and her character becomes more complex as the story progresses. At the beginning of the story Nora seems to be completely happy and content with her life. She is…

The three works that will be analyzed in this essay are “ Stage to Lordsburg” by Ernest Haycox, “ The Big Sleep” directed by Howard Hawks, and “ Too Many have Lived/They Can Only Hang You Once” by Dashiell Hammett. Each of these works has a unique approach to storytelling, but they all share similar characteristics as well. “Stage of Lordsburg” , “ The Big Sleep” , and “Too Many have Lived” all demonstrate different as well as similar tools in literature, such as characterization and imagery.…

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Thelma and Louise (1999) are both similar in that they are both strong feminist texts, addressing and discussing the issues of women’s rights in early and modern society. To represent this issue, as well as others within the text, both employ the use of characterisation, the development of the protagonists, and themes. Characters in the two texts play an important role in expressing the limited freedoms and rights of women and the societal conventions they are…

In the beginning of the novel she is this poor and defenseless housewife that is dominated by her husband, Tom. She is unhappy and miserable with the life she lives. But she doesn 't show the part of being a good mother either, which is the typical image of a good housewife in the 1920 's. She is sad resulting that she gave birth to a baby girl. She informs Nick that she hopes that she will be " a little fool" ( Fitzgerald…

What makes us laugh? Why do we laugh? Is it because of the construction of the jokes? The content? The relatability? In So I Called the Batman¸ Louis CK notably creates comedy and generates laughter through the use of the incongruity theory. This is based on the fact that laughter is created when something violates our normal patterns and expectations. In order to achieve this, he uses the techniques of absurd lines, escalation and misdirection, gestures, the rule of three, acting out, and…