Wife

Set in the circa of the 1950's, the movie, "Mona Lisa Smile" is an inspirational film that explores life through feminism, marriage, and education lead by a modernist teacher at the end of a traditional era (Mona Lisa Feminist/ Conflict Theory). The film is very true to the period it was set in; taking great lengths to ensure authentic depiction of the era. Katherine Watson, played by Julia Roberts, is the main character of the film. The film takes place at Wellesley College, a very prestigious…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a seminal short story in feminist writing. Published in 1892, it was extremely ahead of its time. At a time when a woman could be sentenced to the insane asylum for something as simple and objective as not listening to her husband/father or being “rebellious”, Gilman spoke out against the unfair treatments prescribed for so-called “hysteria.” Gilman knew from experience that suppressing creativity was harmful, not helpful. “The Yellow…

when you know that the wife is not sad but happy and the sister is trying to talk to her through the door thinking that she is sad but we as an audience know that she is wrong and that can be dramatic irony because we know the truth but the sister doesn’t. Another form of Irony is Situational which an example in the story is when They say that the husband is dead and you think that this is true but when he is alive and the wife finds this out the story takes a turn and the wife ends up dying and…

focus entirely on the background of to whom Pocahontas was born to and her role in the Powhatan tribes. During these times it was common for the chief of tribes to have several “wives”. However, it was not for love. Often or not a chief would have one wife he truly loved, but he would have children with other wives who belonged to different tribes to establish an alliance with a temporary marriage. This way tribes were infused with blood from the primary leader. Powhatan women often found it to…

Sojourner Truth and "Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes" A Students Blog by Samara Green. These women make valid points about the struggles that society places on women, but the one that speaks to me in a most profound way was "Why I (Still) Want a Wife" by Judy Brady. The reason I passed up these other works was because some of them went into great detail and I would have had too much to work with and on the other hand I felt that Sojourner 's speech while valid had too little to work with. I…

Women of Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar Shakespeare wrote of only two women in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Portia and Calpurnia. Portia is the wife of Brutus and Calpurnia the wife of Caesar. Portia is quite unstable emotionally and mentally while Calpurnia on the other hand is the strong yet shy wife of Caesar. Both women are strong independent characters in Shakespeare’s play and hold vital roles to how the play progresses. Portia’s speech in Act II scene four lines 39-40 is a…

control over her and power over her (Gardner 42). According to Roman Women by Eve D’Ambra, there were two types of manus, cum manu and sine manu (D’Ambra 46). Cum manu meant that the wife was under that control of her husband, while sine manu, meant that she was still under the control of her father. Meaning that the wife remained under the potestas of her father and stayed completely within the original family while living in the home of her husband (Parkin and Pomeroy 73). For women, marriage…

The conversation between her and her husband is stilted and sounds like they have it every night. The husband observes in interacting with his wife that "you flinched when I touched you [...] You haven 't done that in a long time [...] You used to do it every time I touched you" (54). He recognizes that she was avoiding his touch, yet he did not even consider talking to her about it. Instead,…

In Susan Glaspell’s “A Jury Of Her Peers,” Mr. Wright is found dead in his home, strangled by rope, and his murder framed as if his wife, Mrs. Wright is not involved in any way. His neighbor, Mrs. Hale, and the sheriff’s wife, Mrs. Peters, go over to help search for cues to help solve the case. The main goal of the men is to convict Mrs. Wright, commonly referred to as Minnie Foster in the past, of murdering her husband Mr. Wright. The lawyer assisting in the search says if they can find any…

11. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel: In the beginning of their relationship when they were just going out and not ties in wedlock, the couple practiced open relationship which was of course a strain on Jessica but she had to do it due to Justins active libido and high sexual needs. When she started putting restrictions on home, the couple started having trouble when Justin declared that they can’t have a formal relationship whereby he wasn’t allowed to date other women. Jessica just didn’t…