Curley’s wife is a complex‚ main character in John Steinbeck’s novella‚ "Of Mice and Men" She is introduced at the beginning and ultimately causes the end of the novella‚ her naivity and flirtatiousness leading to her inevitable death at the hand of Lennie‚ confused and scared by her forwardness and eventual unrest. She is first introduced by Candy‚ the swamper‚ who describes her from his perpsective to George and Lennie. The fact that Curley’s wife is introduced through rumours means that the
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Curley’s wife Curley’s wife Only woman in the plot. Wears too much makeup – red fingernails and red shoes with ostrich feathers. Symbolic of women everywhere who are repressed by male centred societies. Utterly alone on the ranch‚ her husband has seen to it that no one will talk to her without fearing a beating from him. Steinbeck’s initial portrayal of her is mean and seductive. Pretty. Young. Flirtatious. Seductive. Others perceive her to be promiscuous
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recollecting her relationship with her husband and family‚ which shows the reader her feelings and how the husband has affected her life. The antagonist is the speaker itself as she experiences an internal conflict with herself. The writer uses literary techniques such as metaphor‚ personification‚ imagery‚ repetition‚ juxtapose and rhetorical questions to help enhance the main theme in the story‚ which is cultural difference. The author also describes her relationship with her husband to reveal how
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to his father for money. On the other hand‚ Cory Maxson get the worst end of the stick. He does not get treated the same way than his older half brother since Troy seem to be stricter on him. Throughout the play that deals with Troy and Cory’s relationship‚ Troy wants to Cory to drop his dream of becoming something in sports. Cory Maxson wanted to become just like
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“Wives as Deputy Husbands” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Article Review “Wives as Deputy Husbands” by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich was written to give the author’s opinion on the roles of women in the 17th and 18th century. Some historians thought women were merely there to do housework and take care of the children. They thought they were helpless. On the contrary other’s thought they were very involved in various affairs such as: blacksmiths‚ silversmiths‚ tinworkers‚ shoeworkers‚ tanners‚ etc. They thought
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other story. The Wife’s Story is not the typical werewolf story you would expect. In Le Guin’s story she describes a wife’s retrospective of what she should have seen in her husband before it was "too late." She describes suspicious behaviors that lead the reader to understand that he is a werewolf. She realizes that her husband changes at the dark of the moon into a human. The way she describes this werewolf is very different than the usual werewolf story. The werewolf has white skin with no hair
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An Ideal Husband Themes by Oscar Wilde Major Themes Political Corruption Political corruption dominates the plot in An Ideal Husband. Sir Robert’s flawless career is threatened by the corruption of his youth. One of the play’s ironies is that the happy ending relies on Sir Robert’s corruption remaining hidden from public view. The offer of a cabinet seat would never stand if the public had knowledge of his past. Yet‚ because he successfully hides this past‚ he feels absolved of his crime. Even
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SACE STAGE 1 Bridget O’Brien Women play a central role in “The drovers Wife” by henry Lawson and the film‚ ‘Australia’ by Baz Luhrman. With references to the narrative elements and cinematic conventions‚ discuss how women were portrayed in both Genres. Both the text ‘The Drovers Wife’ and the movie ‘Australia’ focus on the independency of Australian women and the aboriginal society. In the short story "The Drover’s Wife‚" Henry Lawson acknowledges the hardships of Australian women whose bravery
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Controlled Assessment – Curley’s Wife Women in 1930s America were treated as ‘2nd class’ to the men. They were in charge of household duties‚ especially when the men went to war. Women did not have the rights the men had‚ such as: voting and working. A traditional 1930 American woman would usually be owned by their father and passed on to their husband when married. This relates to Curley’s wife because she had no name throughout the novel. This name ‘Curley’s Wife ‘suggest that she was Curley’s possession
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society during the Middle Ages. “The Wife of Bath Tale” is satiric and shows the power the Wife has. He satirizes this patriarchal society though his characterization of the Wife of Bath. The narrator describes her as a woman of means who has been married five times. The theme in her characterization and her stories ironically shows that women do have power. The feminist tale begins with the Wife of Bath telling the pilgrims about her “mastery over her [five] husband[s].” She then tells an ironic tale
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