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    While the women were at home keeping the family together their husbands were out on the town participating in new ideas and customs. The working class during the Renaissance were predominantly men. Women also participated in jobs with their husbands, but never got the recognition or credit. Being a women in the lower class was not the ideal life. They spent their lives under the rule of men, first their fathers then their husbands. Lower class women worked as servants for five to ten years…

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    says. Abigail Adams is one of the first defender of women's education and rights.. She wanted all women to be equal. Adams had heavy feelings about marriage and considered women should have a better say in their decisions other than doing what their husbands want. Adams wanted women to have the ability to educate themselves and be clever enough to manage the household duties, and be a good example for everyone. When you hear about Abigail Adams and her ingenuity and perseverance you’ll want to…

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    After reading The Return of Martin Guerre, it is clear that Natalie Zemon Davis argues that Bertrande is guilty of knowing her imposter husband to be an imposter; however, it is not always wise to be in agreement with the author. Davis’s reasoning for her argument is very logical and worded in such a fashion that it makes it easy to miss the reliability of her argument. When an author does this, it often makes certain moments in a book suspiciously one sided. Some of those moments include: when…

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    her fitness and her powers of endurance’”(Yalom 301). Men believe that women are inferior to them, therefore the decision of having children is up to the husband. If the husband does not want to have a baby, then they would not have children. Though when it comes to taking care of a child, that is the job of women. Mr. Pontellier, Edna’s husband, believes, “If it was not a mother’s place to look after children, whose on earth was it?”(Chopin 48). Women are excepted to only follow this role of…

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    there is a women known as Mrs. Mallard who seems to be a widow to her husband's death and shortly after the news of the death of her husband it say in the first sentence that “Mrs. Mallard was Afflicted with a heart trouble” which in other words mean that she has mental bodily pain which means that she is very heartbroken and is grieving over the death of her husband which in paragraph 2 it says that her husband’s friend Richards was in the office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was…

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    suppressed by her husband and suffers from depression. To begin, Gilman introduces Jane, a newly married woman who recently moved in to a new house with her physician of a husband, John. Next Gilman, displays how she is a struggling woman who suffers from “nervous weakness” (473) as misdiagnosed by her husband. Jane was continuously hoovered over and improperly cared for as she was sentenced to her room away from her writing and interaction with other people (other than her husband and sister in…

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    In the end people are intertwined by fate Like a puppet master controlling a scene, events unfold in front of someone without their will. In the story The time traveller's wife Henry tries to conquer Fate through medicine and therapy , ultimately is unable to do so as Things start to not go as planned. When Henry visits his doctor he tries to tell him why he can not cure his disorder: "I asked if you understood why it won't work[ Mr. Kendrick] Um yeah. I try to pull my head together.’’ It won't…

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    In the story, the husband and wife had just gotten married, and they hadn’t known each other for a long time. The husband was asleep in his wife’s arms that night. She wasn’t asleep like he was. It seemed that she was just studying him. The good and the bad things about him. She noticed his long eyelashes, his skin, and then his hand. She was so afraid of his hand. She thought it was monstrous and horrid. She was scared of what it could do, or what it would do to her. The husband was a nice man…

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    People thought that when Mrs. Mallard’s husband died that she is sad all the time, but the truth was discovered after she was died. They discovered that Mrs. Mallard was died of happiness and joy. And some people think that she died from happiness when she saw her husband. But I think that she died because her Husband left for her a long life and she…

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    In the beginning, Louise finds out that her husband has passed away in a railroad accident. and she finally feels freedom as a result. Her “gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky” (Chopin 278). When she looks out into the sky, she sees the hope of a new life. The tragedy was a blessing for her yearn for independence. Following this, in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” Emily…

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