How could your spouse, who claims they truly love you no matter the situation, plot against you after entrusting them with a secret. In the story The Lay of the Were-Wolf a baron turns into a were-wolf, and after telling his wife this secret she betrays him. Bisclavaret is innocent and had an injustice done to him. However, some may say that his wife was fearful and had reason for her actions. To the contrary, he entrusted his wife with his life and took weekly excursions to not put her in harm.
The wife of Bisclavaret may have been terrified of her husband after learning of what he becomes. Although this may be true, there is no evidence of him actually harming anyone during his transformation. Some may also come to believe that his wife
In Karen Russell’s short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Karen uses evidence to show whether or not Claudette has conformed to humanity.
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
The way people act toward each other can cause betrayal to play a huge role in their actions toward one another, which is the first way in which betrayal is portrayed. For example, before they were born, “The twin argued inside of their mother’s stomach and fought about their birth.The right-handed twin wanted to be born the normal way, as most children are born, but the left-handed twin said no and said he saw light in another direction(Iroquois 41),” so the right-handed twin was born naturally while the left-handed twin ended up not being able to go the direction he saw light in was born through his mother’s armpit,
In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl, both of the husbands characters realize having trust in their marriages is very important. In The Crucible, John Proctor cheated on his wife Elizabeth with a younger girl named Abigail, and his wife soon found out. In Gone Girl, Amy Dunne, who is the wife of Nick, planted out a murder scene in their house and made it look like Nick had killed her. John Proctor and Nick Dunne both realize, neither of their relationships have a lot of trust in them at all. In these stories, you learn not everyone can be trusted, and some people are not really who they resemble.
Charles Darwin said that “Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal” (Darwin). In this context, Darwin was referring to animals outside of the human species. However, he mentions that humans have enslaved the animals and treat them as inferiors. In some instances, humans deem other races and civilizations as inferior and enslave them in the same way. In the novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad suggests shows the divide between races by paralleling the actions and descriptions of animals and those of the native people of the Congo. However, towards the conclusion of the novel, the differences between the two races become indistinguishable and almost nonexistent.
Writers have different motivations on why they decide on what they write about. It must be something that will grab the reader’s attention and make them want to read their works. Often writers include situations that are not considered appropriate for the era when the piece was written. Some subjects are too sexually explicit. In two such short stories, Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Little Dog,” both writers chose to involve adultery in their stories. Whatever motivation there is to cheat on a spouse, there is not an acceptable reason to do it. This controversial subject was not common and both authors chose to break the rules. Although equally successful in their writings, Chopin’s “The Storm”, was not published until many years after her death.
“Till death do us part,” a sentence many people look forward to saying at some point in their lives. Modern culture emphasizes the importance of a lasting marriage. Why then, if a lasting marriage is what we wish and work for, are the statistics for affairs extremely high? As humans we crave love. We want to be intimate, have a partner to share our life with, to feel appreciated and desired. As humans we are animals. However, as humans we have animalistic instincts. Chemicals and hormones drive our actions. This is natural, too. As in Chekhov’s The Lady With The Dog, there are multiple factors that can lead to infidelity in a marriage. By creating a story in which the main characters are unfaithful to their spouses, Chekhov invites his
The Storm by Kate Chopin is a short story inspired perhaps the feelings that hide women and tear on the inside when they are arrested by the yoke of an unjust and sexist society. We could say that all these elements, in addition to the leading role of women in this story are because despite being married (to a descendant of French in Louisiana) Kate Chopin was widowed, so they lived a part of his life with his grandmother and mother. The respect a person can feel towards someone you love, respect and convert that into a lie because of an error? The nerve can have a person who deceives his partner and not feel remorse? These are the questions that I get to read the story the storm by Kate Chopin, where much reflects the lack of values among partners in a marriage. A marriage is something very nice to be sharing your life with the person you love. From the moment you decide to be with this person , worrying that he lacks nothing for his health and welfare. Basically it is the only thing and the first thing that everyone think when something bad happens.
Along the way, Gremio, Hortensio, and Tranio thought of Kate as crushed because she is a shrew. Since their expectations of a woman is to be obedient and quiet, they believed that she was crushed because she does not meet those expectations. In act one of the book Baptista walks in and tells the boys, “That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter Before I have a husband for the elder. If either of you love Katherina, Because I know you well and love you well, Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.”(17). After he said those words Gremio started of by saying “She’s too rough for me.”(17). Then Hortensio says soon after “No mates for you Unless you were of gentler, milder mold.”(17). Then Tranio says “That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.”(17). As soon as Baptista offered them Kate to be their wife they started saying she is a shrew, crazy, and that she is rough. They see her as a
“Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history,” quoted by Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is absolutely right, the people of Great Britain knew that Britain was declining and were forced to be optimistic of the 20th century. However, as history will tell it, the 20th century can be perceived as a century of death and misery. In Britain, their decline immediately halted ironically after the World Wars. Once Britain came out on top after the wars, they were once again recognized as one of the strongest countries in the world. Many poets, before
...me again. The deserted or betrayed party will always look upon their spouse differently, thinking and fearing that they will be betrayed again, or left, with no warning. Hurt and pain will be a constant companion, and they will find themselves always questioning their partner’s motives and actions. Perhaps trust is damaged or even destroyed.
Maybe I am crazy, but I don't see how starving your new wife and refusing her sleep is enlightened behavior in any way, shape, or form. Barton tells us that, in Shakespeare's time, "shrewish" wives could become the victims of "physical violence, the more ingenious and excruciating the better." She further tells us that, in comparison to the men of that day, "Petruchio . . . is almost a model of intelligence and humanity" and that "what Petruchio wants, and ends up with, is a Katherina of unbroken spirit and gaiety who has suffered only minor physical discomfort . . ." (138). This is a very interesting take on the situation I read about. To me, Katherina's spirit was completely broken at the end of the play. I was anxious to see how Barton would, in addition to this proof of comparative enlightenment on Petruchio's part, find a way to claim that Shakespeare was also showing the men the error of their ways.
...he stopped being the protector and the only rational thinker in the family. In this short story, the men had power over women and they undermined them. The narrator insisted to her husband that she was sick, but he never took her serious instead, he confined her in an isolated place away from home and her child. Eventually both husband and wife loose because, they are trapped in fixed gender roles and could not go against them.
Bassanio was so grateful towards Balthazar that he was able to place Balthazar of above importance to Portia his wife. Portia then compares Bassanio giving up her beloved ring to if she were to give her body to the doctor as a parallel. Prior to the men being made aware of Portia and Nerissa’s disguises, they explain their reasoning’s as a necessity. Once Bassanio and Gratiano know the truth, they apologize with fear as they now know the power these two women posses. Gratiano ends the play by stating “I’ll fear no other thing so sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring” (V, I, 324-325). Gender roles are now reversed as the play concludes which shows that gender itself is a social construct and is not
One reason Mrs. X is not thought to be the stronger is that she goes back to her husband after she concludes that an affair had existed ironically thinking that the affair will not disable her marriage. The play implies that Mrs. X believes that the affair has and will somehow continue to make her marriage stronger. She says, "that only gave me a stronger hold on my husband," but actually her knowledge of the affair will eventually weaken the relationship. Knowing that her trust has been abused will normally cause her to question her husband's devotion: Were there other affairs? Is he cheating now? If so, is she someone I know? If not, will he cheat again? These are possible questions that will remain unanswered because Mrs. X has no intention of confronting her husband. This is a fact because in the last line of the play Mrs. X says, "Now I am going home - to love him." This quote also makes it seem like she is going home to live her normal life as if the affair never occurred, but making herself believe that it has disappeared will not solve anything. She believes th...