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    In these days it is very common for the husband and wife both to have full-time jobs. In each family everyone is equal. Everyone has paid the effort for their family. When the husband and wife both have jobs‚ they both have the responsibility to take care of their family. Some people say that housework is the wife’s job. That is wrong and unfair. There is no reason to put all the housework on women’ shoulder. Wife is a very important character in each family. Most of the time‚ they pay for

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    The Good Wife Guide

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    The Good Wife Guide The “Good Wife Guide” is an advisory text from the 1950’s telling typical 1950’s women on how to accomplish their role as a “good wife”. The mood set throughout the entire text is completely imperative based (e.g. “Clear away clutter” and “Be happy to see him”). This creates a rather stern and overpowering tone‚ connoting that women in the 1950’s were being ‘told’ what to do. Other parts of the text seem to suggest that women had no right to make any individual decisions and

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    nfl 1. First appearance When Curleyswife first appears in the book Lennie was fascinated by her looks and thinks that she is very pretty. You know this because he looks at her from top to bottom. These facts are true because in the book it says “Lennie’s eyes moved down her body.” To show that Lennie was fascinated by her looks it says “Lennie watched her‚ fascinated”. Another way that we know that Lennie thought that she was pretty is that after she leaves the bunk house Lennie then says “she

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    Of mice and men Notes curley’s wife  She is never given a name.  She is given no real identity.  She has only been married to Curley for a few weeks.  She is lonely. There are no other women to talk to on the ranch.  The men on the ranch like to think that she is after them.  She is married to the sons of the owner of the ranch so why would she be after the workers who have nothing.  When whit is playing cards he comments to George about Curley’s wife .”ain’t she a loo loo?” he also

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    frequency is familiar to Curley’s wife‚ it is quite damaging. She shows recurrent outbursts of distress and tells of decisions she has made in her life that tell the reader that she is strongly affected by this sexist phenomena. These factors show that she has changed her lifestyle and her attitude‚ due to society’s view of women. It is clear that Curley’s wife is a victim of sexism as evidenced by her shifting attitude and loss of identity. A man keeping his wife away in his house alone all day

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    Brady’s I want a wife In Judy Brady’s essay‚ “I Want a Wife”‚ she explores why she would like to have a wife. Brady’s style and structure contribute to her theme of female repression. Various style techniques‚ such as repetition and irony‚ are used along with the structural technique of using levels of intimacy. One of Brady’s main style techniques is the use of repetition. She is constantly describing what she wants in a wife and the duties that the wife should take care of: “I want a wife who will not

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    tales. Amongst those sharing a tale‚ is the Wife of Bath. She tells a story about a knight sent to find out what women truly want. The knight is sent on this mission because he is found guilty of rape‚ in a usually case‚ the knight punishment would result in his beheading. The queen is given the sovereignty to pick the knight’s punishment. The way in which Chaucer depicts the wife of bath‚ shows that she is an atypical woman of her time period. The wife of Bath contradicts the misogynist ideas of

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    about the relevance of today’s marriage to the wife of bath’s view. The wife of bath is a story that in the whole plot a woman with no name as the wife of bath. She is a wealthy and elegant woman from Bath which has been married for five times. She has traveled to many places with a sense of the experience of seeing the world‚ and fully experience in both: love and sex. First‚ from the story when everyone judging her about the times of her marriage the wife of Bath cited King Solomon which has many

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    would be taken to court to be punished. In King Arthur’s court of law‚ his queen can implore him to give her the case and choose what to do with the criminal. In the Wife of Bath’s tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer there was an old woman that used rules of chivalry so a promise kept from a knight to her wouldn’t be turned down. In the Wife Of Bath’s tale a knight is taken to court to be punished for violating a maiden. In King Arthur’s court‚ Arthur condemned that the knight should be put to death and

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    characters is Curley’s wife. By becoming familiar with her‚ we come to an understanding of the tragedy of life. We see many perspectives of her‚ some negative and some positive. We feel ourselves orbiting this character. But we see ourselves evolving as the character also does. She could be interpreted as a ‘miss-fitting’ character in the novel‚ as no one relaters to her. So how does Steinbeck present and develop Curley’s wife in Of Mice and Men? Throughout the book‚ Curley’s Wife is often portrayed

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