...In the prose, “Why I Want a Wife,” Judy Syfers blatantly uses anaphora, diction, and a rhetorical question to express the irony of men’s treatment of women and their utter dependence for them. Through this irony, Judy Syfers made the audience, mostly women, think about women’s rights and the treatment of women as being property or possession. Syfers began the bulk of her essay by relaying to us a list of things she would want in a wife if she could have one. The most obvious device used would be anaphora in the repetition of “I want a wife who…” at the beginning of almost every sentence. You could see this in the range of demands in the sentences “... a wife who will work and send me to school.” to “... a wife who will care for me and sympathize...
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...Introduction * Does Roderick care about his wife Janice at all? What did Roderick do to Janice? Is it his fault, that Janice never gets her sleep? Is there other factors that comes to play in, when Roderick wants to kill his wife? Roderick is irritated by his wife. They have only been married in a few months, and haven’t been together in very long time before their marriage. Roderick’s wife, Janice, can’t sleep at night, and we can’t read in the short story, why she can’t. Section 1 (analysis and interpretation) * “Roderick is hoping, hoping with such effort that his knees are making noise, that she will not do this today." There is a bad atmosphere in their house. Roderick know what his wife Janice is going to tell him, when she gets up. Roderick is hoping, that she just one day, won’t say that she hasn’t been sleeping, when Roderick know she has. But the love, we must assume they had, when they were getting married, has it just turned to hate? Maybe Roderick has been hurting her before, and this is why she can’t sleep at night. She is laying wide awake in fear of him to do something to her, but Roderick doesn’t care about it. Roderick is described like an upper class when he drinks and eats extraordinary and on special ways. When we read this, we don’t see Roderick as a dangerous type, but I think, that Janice is afraid of him, and that’s why she can’t sleep at night. Section 2 (analysis and interpretation) * "Will I ever know the peace you know?" Roderick...
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...Introduction I propose to conduct a survey on the topic “Is female independence the main reason behind the increasing number of divorce rate?” This survey will be in context of Bangladesh. The rate of divorce is rising due to increased female independence. High rate of divorce is a common problem in western countries but in Bangladesh it is also following the trend. It is suggested that overall improvement in women’s position in terms of financial and social status has changed the scenario. Women’s position is getting stronger both financially and emotionally. Now they are more conscious about their rights, education and job facilities are giving more independence these days. Women's “work outside the home" has brought about a revolutionary change in the overall social outlook. They now claim equal rights as men, but as a consequence it is affecting marriage relationships. This overall change in women’s roles is leading to an increase in divorce rate due to inequality in acceptance of women’s freedom. There is a strong correlation between divorce rates and married women's involvement in the work force. Married women's increased participation in the work force may have many consequences. Some of the consequences that result from married women working are that there is less time spent at home, less time of interaction with family, and changing goals for the future. These consequences may negatively affect the marital relationship and contribute to the increasing divorce rates...
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...under analysis is written by a well-known American writer of XX century Ernest Hemingway. One of his main topics was animals as symbols and we can see this tendency in the title of the story. Cat in the Rain was written in the 1920’s. It is about an American couple who spends their holidays in a hotel in Italy. It is a rainy day and the American woman sees a cat on the street and she wants to protect it from the raindrops. When she goes out of the hotel and wants to get the cat, it has already gone. As wife returns to the hotel room, she starts a conversation with her husband George and tells him how much she wants to have a cat and a lot other things. Her husband is not interested at all. Later there is a knock on the door and a maid brings a cat for the American woman. The text of the story is not homogeneous: it presents a piece of narration intercepted with dialogues, descriptions and open ending. It is also divided into several parts according to the change of the place of narration: in the room, in the hotel and outside The general slant of the story is emotional, pathetic, depressive and tense. As the author was a war journalist and a representative of the lost generation. Cat in the Rain contains several semantic fields. The semantic field of colour: bronze, blue, green; of nature: sea, palms, rain, cat; of emotions: liked, smiled, disappointed, laughed, feeling of being of supreme importance, tired; of water: sea, rain, wet, dripped, glisten. A rigorous analysis of...
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...EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH Vol. I, Issue 11/ February 2014 ISSN 2286-4822 www.euacademic.org Impact Factor: 3.1 (UIF) DRJI Value: 5.9 (B+) Feminist Analysis Of Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” REHANA KOUSAR NIDA SARFRAZ Department of English Government College University, Faisalabad Pakistan Abstract: This study explores Feminism in Lorca’s play, ‘Blood Wedding’. Feminism asserts that women are treated as ‘sex objects’, non-significant other and witches. This study analyzes Blood Wedding at four levels; 1. Biological level 2. Linguistic level 3. Socio-cultural level 4. Psychoanalytical level coined by Elaine Showalter. Lorca deals with women in his drama as submissive. He praises their beauty but neither gives women names nor any choice of free will. Women are nameless and without any status. His society also promotes the concepts of submissive women and rejects bossy women. Images which are used for women, women language, their psyche and Spanish Society in Blood Wedding Proves that it is a Feminist play. Key words: “Blood Wedding”, feminism, F. G. Lorca, submissive women Introduction: Feminism asserts that men either consciously or unconsciously have oppressed women, allowing them a little or no voice in the political, social and economic issues of their society. By not giving voice and value to women’s opinion, responses and writings, men have suppressed the female, defined what it means to be feminine and thereby devoiced, devalued and trivialized...
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...Analysis Essay on “A Sorrowful Woman” Gail Godwin signifies that not all women want to be a full time wife and mother in her short story, “A Sorrowful Woman.” This idea of feminism helps the audience understand the poignant character and her actions. Gail Godwin incorporates this epigraph, “There once was a wife and mother one too many times.”(1st Sent.) This quote at the beginning of her short story implies that the woman should not have been a wife or mother. Her unhappiness in (Para. 1) is based on how she was so sad and it made her sick to see her husband and son. She did not want to be a wife or mother so she tried new things. “She tried these personalities on like costumes, then discarded them.”(Para. 20) This shows how she could not pin-point her true identity; therefore, she tried new personalities, but none of them worked. (Critical Analysis of “A Sorrowful Woman”) When she picked up the pen and pad and attempted to write a poem (Para. 20). She failed to succeed. Because she wanted to be free, all the freedom she did have seemed overwhelming. The sorrowful woman sought to be independent. She moved into her little room and slowly but surely disconnects from her son and husband by not seeing them anymore. (“Critical Analysis of “A Sorrowful Woman”) Because the sorrowful woman could not identify herself, her husband had to fulfill her roles. “I don’t know what to do, it’s all my fault, I’m such a burden.” (Para. 15) The husband, always understanding her feelings, hires...
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...UNIVERSITY OF LVIV THE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LINGUISTIC MEANS OF POTRAYING MAIN CHARACTERS IN “THE CANTERBURY TALES” BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER COURSE PAPER PRESENTED BY LILIA YAREMA a fourth year student of the English department SUPERVISED BY SPODARYK O. V. an assistant professor of the English department LVIV 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………… 3-4 CHAPTER I. THEORETICAL ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS…… 5-16 1.1 Linguistic analysis……………………………………………… 5-8 1.2 Discourse and Text analyses….…………….………………….. 9-11 1.3 Stylistic analysis ………………………………………………… 12-16 CHAPTER II. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CHAUCER’S CHARACTERS 17-28 2.1 “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” ……………………………………… 18-22 2.2 “The Pardoner’s Tale” ………………………………………….. 23-28 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………. 29-30 REFERENCES...… ………………………………………………………….. 31-32 INTRODUCTION The theme of the course paper is “Linguistic means of portraying main characters in “The Canterbury tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer”. This paper intends to make an analysis of the language in the collection of stories “The Canterbury Tales”, written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of 14th century. We will analyze the language used to describe characters. It was based on the idea that every choice made by the author of a sentence is meaningful. Therefore, once we understand the choices the author makes when describing a character, we are able to have a better understanding of...
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...In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath presents her bold views throughout the course of her narration. Her prologue provides insight into her real-life experience with marriage, which she seems to view more as a game than as a consecrated relationship. Per the Pardoner’s request, the Wife of Bath shares her stance on marriage through a captivating tale, in which she highlights the idea of gentillesse in her vision of an ideal relationship. However, even though the Wife of Bath’s tale seems to go against the patriarchal society of the Middle Ages, further analysis of the text supports the fact that she views marriage as an opportunity for personal profit and not for equality. Thus, her tale and prologue not only support...
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...Stylistic analysis of the story “Cat in the Rain” by Earnest Hemingway The author. The story under the title “Cat in the Rain” was written by Ernest Hemingway. He was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. The summary. The story describes an American couple, who have a trip to Italy. The story begins with the woman, who sits in the hotel’s room and sees a cat in the window. It’s a rainy day and woman wants to protect the cat. Then she leaves the room and when she returns, she doesn’t see the cat. All the time her husband spends reading. She tries to tell him about her desire to buy a cat and some other things, but he doesn’t listen to her. At the end of the story there is a knock on the door and the maid stands there holding a cat, for the woman, in her hands. The structure of the text. Every text is organized in a specific way, and this is not identical. Speaking about its structure there is an introductory paragraph...
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...[[move this block to the left margin]] Nicholas Petrilla Essay I Draft Analysis of Cathedral 28 September 2010 Dr. Michelle Brown Analysis of Cathedral [[descriptive title? 12-point font, not bold]] I am fortunate that each morning I wake up, look around, and am able view the world around me. Most of us take our vision for granted. Others, like the narrator, in the Raymond Carver short story, Cathedral, not only take their vision for granted, but look with prejudice on people with this disability or any disability. Too often we have a preconceived notion of how we feel about individuals before we really get to know them. The narrator only knew of Robert from the stories his wife had told him, and the poems she had written; including that first poem were she describes the last day she spent with him, and how he had asked to touch her face. But just the fact that Robert was blind was enough for the narrator to form his opinion of Robert. The theme that the narrator wanted us to see was that although he was letting Robert come into his home, there was no way he was going to be able to cope with a “blind man”. Having this man in his house was not normal, and was not something with which he was going to be comfortable. The writing of this story from the narrator’s view point allows each reader to reflect on their preconceived notions of situations that they have faced and how they dealt with them. (Thesis) As the story develops, there are many references to...
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...and some places, polygamy has under certain circumstances a valuable function. In some situations it may be considered as the lesser of two evils, and in other situations it may even be a positive beneficial arrangement. The most obvious example of this occurs in times of war when there are inevitably large numbers of windows and girls whose fiancés and husbands have been killed in the fighting. One has only to recall the figures of the dead in the first and second world wars to be aware that literally millions of women and girls lost their husbands and fiancés and were left alone without any income or care or protection for themselves or their children. If it is still maintained that under these circumstances a man may marry only one wife, what options are left to the millions of other women who have no hope of getting a husband? Their choice, bluntly stated, is between a chaste and childless old maidenhood, or becoming somebody’s mistress—that is, an...
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..."The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter" (1917) Summary: This poem takes the form of a letter from a lonely wife who has not seen her husband in five months. She begins by reminiscing about meeting him during childhood. She was pulling flowers at the front gate and he came by on stilts, playing horse. The next two lines, "And we went on living in the village of Chokan/Two small people, without dislike or suspicion," imply that the pair did not grow close right away following that encounter; they continued to grow up separately. In the next stanza, the wife describes marrying her husband at age fourteen. After that, she was continuously shy, either out of respect, sub-ordinance, or just because of her introverted personality. According to the next stanza, she became more comfortable with the marriage by age fifteen and "stopped scowling." A year later, her husband (a merchant) departed for another village, which is where he has been for the past five months. The monkeys' sorrowful noise mirrors her loneliness. She writes that her husband "dragged [his] feet" when he left - indicating that he did not want to leave her. She ends her letter by writing that if he comes back along the river, he should send word ahead, and she will come out to meet him. The poem is signed "by Rihaku." Analysis: Pound was not the creator of this poem; he translated it from the original Chinese version by Li Po. The Chinese original likely had a specific form and identifiable meter, but Pound...
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...Analysis of ”Death by Scrabble” ”Death by Scrabble” is a short story. The author of this short story is Charlie Fish. The short story is about a husband and wife playing Scrabble on a blistering hot Sunday afternoon. The husband hates his wife and he keeps thinking about all the things that he would have been doing if she weren’t there. The wife is close to winning, which makes him hate her even more. Now he wants to kill his wife. The letters they spell in the game will come true, or at least that’s what the husband thinks. He is desperately trying to find a fatal word to use against his wife, but she ends up using the word DEATH and that surprises the husband enough for him to choke on a scrabble letter and die. The short story opens in meduas res because he starts out by saying, “it’s a hot day, and I hate my wife”(1). The short story has a very closed ending, because we know that he is dead. The story is divided into three part, Introduction, climax and ending. In the introduction you get to know a little bit more about the teller, and he tells us about his relationship to his wife. The climax is when you know they both are looking for words to kill each other. The ending is when the husband is choking on a Scrabble letter and dies. Throughout the short, tension is being build up, and we can see that the words they are writing, is how they feel about their marriage. The narrator is the husband, and we know that because he says “I”. The narrator is very limited, because...
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...Divine Hypocrisy (A literary analysis of Chaucer’s use of satire to reach his audience) As you go through life you learn that many times most people do not agree with what you do. They all have their own interests as we have our own. People of all denominations perform many different jobs some even the same jobs, but others out do the others in their field. Chaucer is considered to be one of the greatest English poets of all time. Many refer to him as the father of the English language. Chaucer wrote one of the best known books titled Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s literary work is one of the most famous books to ever be written. Within his book there are many smaller stories told by different characters told within it. All of the smaller...
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...very happy. They loved each other and promised to be always together. They would be together until they died. On one night, Lawongo had a strange dream. In his dream he was hunting a very big wild hog. The hog attacked him. He did his best to kill the hog, with monstrous tusks. He used his knife to stab the hog and it finally died. Its dead body, was as big as the moon in the sky that night. On the next morning, Lawongo went hunting. It was still early in the morning and he did not want to wake his wife up. In the jungle ha did not see any animals. He could not find any wild hog either. He felt very strange. He walked and he felt very thirsty. He picked a coconut. And when he wanted to open it using his knife, he saw his knife was full of dried blood. He was confused. Suddenly he remembered his wife. Somehow he had a bad feeling about his wife. He immediately went home. When he arrived home, many people were in front of his house. One of the people said,"We're sorry for your wife, Lawongo. Please accept our...
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