Wife

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem written in the form of a dramatic monologue. In it, the speaker describes the portrait of his late wife to the servant of a prospective bride’s father. Throughout the description, the speaker’s sociopathy is made increasingly clear, with the heavily implication that he was the actual cause of the wife’s demise. Browning reveals the prideful, control-obsessed, and sociopathic character of the speaker through self-boasting, caesuras in the monologue,…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” Analysis The short story “The Yellow wallpaper” is a story about a woman’s descent into insanity. The story begins with the narrator and her husband moving into what seems to be a temporary vacation home. It is obvious in the beginning that the narrator is going through something or suffering through some type of illness. The narrator puts trust in her husband and follows his direct orders, even if they make her unhappy. Unfortunately, things start to go awry as she’s…

In today’s society, women are not equal. There is still a wage discrepancy. There is still an argument that women’s bodies should be monitored and controlled, such as in the argument for pro-life. In some countries, there are laws against a woman driving or leaving the house. Margaret Atwood wrote A Handmaid’s Tale, which exemplifies how a society ruled by men can also mean a society that oppresses women so harshly so as to take away their wages completely, control their bodies with monthly…

his wife before his accident. After his accident, he started to notice how his wife, Norma jean goes through the day of her daily life. He starts noticing the little things his wife does, like putting her house slipper on precisely at nine o’clock, stares off into a corner while cutting onions. Even though he is almost healed from the accident, he is still frightened to drive a vehicle. He feels like he is not the breadwinner in his marriage anymore and cannot provide anything for his wife. The…

Victorian Britain mostly consisted of rich people who had a high status in the British society. It was even better if you had a big house or a husband or wife. The women in this so-called 'upper-class' enjoyed almost every second of their lifetime. With all the money they had, they bought, for example, clothing, delicious food or they even went on a holiday. They also hired servants to make sure that the housekeeping was done, because the women probably thought their status was too high for…

who call her a “cuckold” (Erauso 40). A cuckold is a man whose wife is cheating on. It is an insult to a man’s honor. By her fighting the man over this shows that that either she is truly insulted over it because she believes she is a man now or to keep up with her male disguise. This shows that men are violent and must defend their honor. This term also shows how woman are viewed as property and that it is the man’s fault if the wife…

pivotal moment in the heroine’s life, where she finds herself entangled in the mess of what Rebecca had left behind in Manderley. Having met Maxim only once before in Monte Carlo, the narrator neither had the chance to know more about Maxim nor his late wife Rebecca. Although the marriage started off on the wrong foot, it managed to develop into a healthier and more stable relationship as the plot advanced. First of all, the protagonist’s marriage starts out with much uncertainty and hesitance…

Before the marriage, if the wife had any valuables or property, the husband would gain them after. After marriage, the husband became the wife’s legal guardian. Often, if there were a lot of people with the same last name, the wife would take the husband’s first name instead of his last. The women were expected to have many children and the average family size was 5, including the…

thinks of himself as a modern, progressive man, who while he holds onto tradition and old ways, is willing to change to adapt to Western standards for the comfort of his wife and children. He only thinks this way of himself to better his view of himself and as a means of justifying the treatment of his wife. In reality, his wife sees him as an overpowering, demeaning husband who is not at all like the Western thinker that he professes to be and in some instances abusive. A key example of this…

psychological reflection of characters. At the beginning of this story, when the main character’s wife said that the blind man, Robert will visit and spend the night with them, It can be easily found out that the main character did not like Robert. “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit…And his being blind bothered me.”(62) Furthermore, I think that maybe he also felt jealous about the close relationship between his wife and Robert. This main character was resisting to socialize with others and…