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Duty: a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility. Between marriage, the duties of the husband and wife can sometimes differ apart from the different parties in the marriage. However, in many marriage relationships, there is one party who steps up and takes control and commands the duties of the wife and the husband. While many people believe that marital relationships are expressed and based around love and mutual respect, Shakespeare argues in his play The Taming of the Shrew that these…

trained in gender roles” (“Grace Farrell”). Women and men were assigned specific jobs and were told at a young age what their futures should look like. Women were taught to be beautiful and dependent on a man. Men were taught to be strong and have authority. Society is accepting for men to take on many mistresses, while not for women. Gender roles are a set of rules containing the social norms in the society specifically made for each gender. In the 1920’s, women and men had specific roles.…

Patriarchy is defined as being a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family. The book Caetana Says No is about two women who are from two different parts of the caste system but both are dealing with patriarchy. Because of there social standings there experiences are different. Both of there stories take place in Brazil one is young the other old. Although both women are under patriarchs the affects differ. In Caetana’s story she rebels against her…

Socialization Abstract Socialization plays on important role in the construction of the gender and shows the link between social values and the touchstone of male domination. The gender socialization in the context of Deshpande’s novel A Matter of Time revolves around four generations of women Manorama, Kalyani, Sumi and Aru who are victims of cruelty exercised by patriarchal society where the measure of woman’s successful her married life, without which her all other accomplishments are…

the Catholic Church and the Christian religion have downplayed the role of women. She was considered as a being who was only able to do housework and unable to perform tasks that relate to a whole community. I refer to the work of a statesman, ruler, or any other position in which greater responsibility and management of mass was required. They were eager companions of kings, workers, leaders, men of law, etc. We can analyze the role that women played in medieval times in the texts “Beowulf” and…

When analyzing The Little Mermaid, Giroux holds Ariel under scrutiny with her relationship with the men in her life and how her perfect body might lead little girls to idealize unhealthy body standards for themselves. Giroux describes Ariel as “modeled after a slightly anorexic Barbie Doll,” due to her slim figure, large breasts, and wide eyes, all which seems like too much for a sixteen year old. The two main male relationships that Ariel has are between her father, King Triton, and her love…

mental illness. Gilman reveals to the reader's how quickly it is for insanity takes hold on a person when it is misunderstood. Isolating a person from the rest of the world make matters worse. The unnamed narrator`s husband ,John, plays a major role in the process of the narrator going mad .“ ...he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down i figures...you see he doesn't believe i am sick! (Gilman,1)” John believes that his wife is not really sick because he…

women's lifestyles. Elizabethan women were raised to be dependent on the males in their family. Throughout the book, Hamlet, there were only two women in the play who had minimal lines. In Hamlet, Shakespeare views women as naive in order to show the role of women during the Elizabethan era. In Hamlet, Shakespeare emphasizes the importance of Ophelia’s standards of youth and purity. In the beginning of the book, she accepts herself as being naive and dependent on the men in her life. When being…

In the 16th century, women were usually depicted in literature as vulnerable, fragile and compliant. While men were often represented as strong, valiant, and independent. During the time men ruled the world, women were considered as property, no better than cattle or land. However, Shakespeare's significant plays drove the idea into people's minds toward accepting the new ideas that women were just as strong, valiant and independent like any other man. Especially in the play, The Merchant of…

Women and Men are not equal. Historically, men have assumed labor intensive jobs. Women in contrast, have taken jobs related to child rearing and housekeeping. It was actually not until the second world war were women, in mass kitchen exodus, started to take up factory jobs. Jobs which men used to hold exclusively. Through the ages poets and writers have speculated as to why there is a divide between men and women. Some have argued that this divide stems from culture. Others suggest that the…