The Farmer's Wife

someone can scrutinize that there are reasons to compare why the wives can be both can be dishonest or ambiguous with their respective spouse that leads to a dysfunctional relationship. In The Storm, the protagonist Calixta is shown to be a hard working wife that hides her secret when her husband and child are out of the house, only when they are home she acts like she is happy that they are there. As, for the play Trifles, the drama displayed between Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters displays the power…

The article, “Women’s and Men’s Preferences for First and Last Names”, was a psychological research study done by Pacific Lutheran University. The premise was to first determine the favorability of men and women’s first name and also their last name. They wanted to measure how connected men were with their first names and how well women were with their first names. As they predicted, the results came out almost evenly across the participants measured in the United States giving testament that…

A woman in the Renaissance is defined by three stages in her life: Pre-Marriage/Childhood, Married, and widowed (unless she dies first) and would only be seen as a sister, a wife, a mother, and nothing more. Her place in society was “to be obedient; manage the household; rear the children; and nurse the ill.” But all in all they were considered less than men, mostly in the case of higher reasoning which society (which was influenced by the male perspective) believed only men were capable of .…

are both very prominent. Two of the novel’s main characters are mothers, although their views on motherhood are not alike at all. Throughout the novel, Adele and Edna are compared to show how Adele surpasses the societal ideals of what a mother and wife should be, and how Edna defies those standards and refuses to let motherhood consume her life. One of the ways that this is achieved is by the use of the term “mother-woman” and applying it to both of the mentioned female characters. The term…

someone to raise the children, clean the house, and prepare the food, but, on top of that, they now have someone earning money to help pay the bills. Husbands typically don’t see the issue of who will do the housework, but, instead, see it as his wife earning the family more money. It is discouraging for women to work for 40 hours a week at their career to come home only to continue with housework. The perceived quality of marriage and individual happiness depend on how fairly responsibilities…

The era of the 1950s, was an iconic era in american history. The american dream of freedom, self empowerment, and success was growing. After WW2, the soldiers returned and the generation of baby boomers began. The baby Boomer generation was born between mid 1950 's to mid 1960s, this was also the time where the Happy Homemakers were born. Women who stayed home and looked after the children while her husband provided. Family became a national priority, and women were taught that a happy marriage…

very status for a woman to have. Perhaps showing no job security or at least a higher paying one. Then, “…my uncle often complained that his family had chosen an ugly woman for his wife. To show his displeasure, he often insulted Jyou Ma’s cooking… Great-uncle’s family eventually chose a pretty woman for his second wife. But the complaints about Jyou Ma’s cooking did not stop ” - this shows that woman were nothing more than wives to him. They were not treated as people and so constantly insulted…

them. (Larson) From her writings, it can be seen that she subtly challenges the patriarchal system surrounding women and causes you to question the gender roles within society. (Al-Shaykh 793) In “A Season of Madness” the main character is Fatin, a wife, who is pretending that she is crazy to push her husband leave her. No matter what she does and what his mother says, he is faithful and unwilling to leave her and will stick with her until the end. This causes Fatin to come out with the truth,…

fragile because she does not fall within the social norms of femininity, being a woman also causes her to oppressed in her marriage, leading to her not having an identity. The time period plays a role in the lack of voice Mrs. Mallard has because as a wife during this time the husband is expected to hold the power of over every aspect of the wife’s life, so when freedom came to Mrs. Mallard, she did not know how to embrace it even though this is what she has been yearning for. Because of…

feel like they are distant from the real world or just plain crazy. The nameless wife, who is also the narrator, name is diagnosed with temporary nervous depression. Her husband, who is her doctor, decides to rent a “colonial mansion” (Stetson 647), as she refers to it for a couple months. At first, she found the house “queer” or suspicious but does not know why. John, her husband, thinks that the isolation of his wife in this room all day is the best remedy for her to heal from her depression.…