The Country Wife

This Lord takes a wife in hoping that “heirs would follow in his stead” (20), indicates that he married his wife purely for his own gain. He feels that she is “a fine award” (23) and “love[s] her loveliness” (24) which illustrates his objectification of her as he only values her for her beauty. He is also quite jealous…

Hello Professor and Classmates; Reaching conclusions or stereotyping people from another country or culture is quite prevalent in America and beyond. I’ll use the conclusions drawn about Nigerian men and other men from Africa coming to America. We all know that most come to America for the opportunities, in the interim, there are other opportunities that these men seek. Moreover, as the men embark upon their journey here in the states their thirst for companionship increases over time as it…

The play “Trifles” was published in the year 1916. During this time most of the United States of America was composed of farms. Indeed, it was during this time that the Great Depression started; influenced by the economic problems the country encountered as World War I continued to erupt. Although these social events are not mentioned in the play, the vivid description of the daily lives of rural women in America and their individual struggle makes the reader aware of the time period.…

of the family as well as the state. The orthodox system of Confucianism also enforced the status of relationships arranged in order of rank. Even though this was compulsory between husband and wife, father, and son, and between a ruler and subject, a husband must also treat his wife with respect while the wife must obey her husband’s commands. However, now there are circumstances where women have become highly educated instead of putting their family issues first. Women’s modern transformation…

women and issued orders that women were expected to follow. These relationships were common all over the world in male-dominated societies. Wife battling has widely become a part of different cultures where majority of men use it to remind women of their weak position so that they should remain under control of them (Hamberger, and Claire 33). Men consider wife beating as part of obedience in the relationship. According to different religions and societies, women are anticipated to submit to…

The Role of Women in Ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt was one of the earliest and most preeminent countries in the world with a cohesive, phenomenal culture that was based upon the tenet of unity. However, solely remaining as the first unified, long-lasting country was an achievement that was instigated by the roles of the people and leaders of ancient Egypt: especially women. The ancient Egyptian culture acknowledged women and gave them freedom equal to that of the Egyptian men, which transformed…

Unlike in “A Secret Sorrow” and unlike Faye. His wife seemed to fit the role, but refused to take the position. Throughout this story she is too overwhelmed with the responsibilities of being a wife, as well as a mother and wants a different role. She says “The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again” (pg. 39). She then traps herself…

Over the last century, a lot has changed in terms of gender equality. More women are allowed to vote in more countries, women will now be allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia, etc. Yet the fight still continues. Sometimes it takes looking back at how men saw women before to truly understand how far we’ve come—or if anything’s changed at all. John Steinbeck's works (Of Mice and Men and The Chrysanthemums both written during the 1930s, about a decade after women got the right to vote in the U.S.)…

Infertility is powerful enough to split couples apart and lead people to act immorally. The “curse” of infertility plagues the characters, starting with Will and Janice and eventually shifting to Billy and Amy. They face humiliation from society while trying to manage their personal lives. The characters show that infertility damages relationships. However, in the case of Billy and Amy, indirectly, it brings them together. In his novel, One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash writes about families devoid of…

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is about a girl named Taylor Greer who packs up everything she has from her small town in Kentucky and moves across the country to where her very old car finally gives out. Taylor has nothing more than a couple hundred dollars, a junk car, a lot of ambition, and her morals. The book portrays her as a strong person who isn’t to be messed with. She doesn’t let the fact that she is a woman affect anything she does, because deep down it’s obvious that it doesn’t…