1. Some qualities that would be considered good in women would be that of being reliable yet not bearing a desperate desire to please. A women being fairly educated and is able to contribute to that of political or other high intellectual matters are desired. However, though this notion may be seen within The Tale of Genji, in Murasaki Shikibu’s Dairy, a woman learning and becoming educated is something to hide and become ridiculed for. This can be seen after Murasaki was talking about how she was being labeled as very learned and flaunting her learning when she says “How utterly ridiculous! Would I, who hesitate to reveal my learning in front of my women at home, ever think of doing so at court?” (137-139). Thus furthering the point that being well learned was not something to be desired as opposed to how such thing is viewed within The Tale of Genji. Some traits that would be bad for a woman …show more content…
According to the men in “The Broom Tree” chapter of Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, the qualities most important to be a good wife are being loyal towards the husband yet not being fully subservient. This can be seen when the Chief Equerry was retelling a personal story about a girl he had a relationship with and said that he thought “She seems desperately eager to please: well, I must teach her a lesson” (28). A wife that perhaps is not the most beautiful or talented but is extremely reliable when needed. When regards to social status, they feel that the noble woman and their families hide their faults so adamantly to be an ugly ordeal while disliking how pleased with themselves most of them are. The high born are also pampered and a lot about them are remained hidden. The best women according to the text would be the ones that are middle birthed, as they say those women are the ones that “you can see what a girl really has to offer and find ways to distinguish one from another” (23). The lowborn women are not a factor as they are not even considered as an
Films are necessary in our time period because the human eye can articulate the message intended through sight allowing visual imagination to occur. In the book, world 2 by Max Brooks, he creates a character by the name Roy Elliot who was a former movie director. Roy Elliot manages to make a movie titled “Victory at Avalon: The Battle of the Five Colleges” and some how it goes viral. Similarly, Frank Capra’s film, “Why we Fight” expresses a sense of understanding the meaning of wars. Films do not inevitably portray truth because they display what the film director views as important and beneficial for people to know.
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
Throughout the book, many of the wives note how they wish that they were able to pursue their goals and dreams, but were unable to due to the fact that they had responsibilities as a wife. I think that by putting themselves in a position where they could be viewed as undeserving upper class members who did not work, it not created a dependency to their husbands financially, it portrayed them as women incapable of supporting themselves or their desires in life. “Upper-class women, like other women, experience dissatisfaction with their role as wives–with its expected mode of accommodation, unequal voice in family decisions, and sole responsibility for home and family”
Their limitations amongst society can also be noticed by the amount of education that they are entitled to. Plato’s Republic mentions how the role of women is determined by the status of their spouse. For instance, if a woman were to be the wife of a guard, then she would be expected to live at the level of that status, too. She is expected to be able to contribute to society a great deal more rather than stay at home and take care of her children and household.
Women are not only assumed to only take care of their family, but to not have the education that they do rightfully deserve. Women can contribute to the world as plentiful and gloriously as men can, but the chances are not given to them. For example, when Minerva tells Trujillo that she dreams of attending the University to study law, he replies "'The University is no place for a woman these days'" (99). Trujillo implies that by going to school to heighten her education, it would be ...
Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji, set in the Heian Period, gives a good idea of what the model Heian man and Heian woman should look like. Genji himself is like a physical embodiment of male perfection, while a large portion of the Broom Tree chapter outlines the ideal of a woman—that it is men who decide what constitutes a perfect woman, and the fact that even they cannot come to decide which traits are the best, and whether anyone can realistically possess all of those traits shows that the function of women in the eyes of men of that period was largely to cater to their husbands and households. Broken down, there are similarities and differences between the standard for Heian men and women, and the Tale of Genji provides excellent examples of characters who fit into their respective gender roles.
AP English Literature and Composition MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET Title: A Raisin In the Sun Author: Lorraine Hansberry Date of Publication: 1951 Genre: Realistic Drama Biographical Information about the Author Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930. She grew up as the youngest in her family. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a real estate broker.
Lack of education also leads to another problem: without knowledge, a woman cannot forge her own path, and make her own way in the world. In this time period, men are expected to be educated, charming, and handsome; however, women are only there to look pretty and please their husbands. This warped "purpose" of women leads to a great lack of opportunity for women,
Chaucer exemplifies this in “The Wife of Bath’s Tale.” Living in a male-dominant society, the wife ...
One effect of the way their culture portrays women is that women receive a inadequate or even no education. Women, especially women slaves were thought of as vacuous back then. Because of this, others felt that there would be no reason why women should get a decent education. However, Truth feels that even IF women aren’t as intelligent as men, they still deserve a chance.
The literary masterpiece The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is a fictional tale that provides clear insight into the sociopolitical court life of the Heian period in Japan. In the tale we are able to see the standards of life that were expected of the aristocrats during the Heian period. The social nature of Heian court life is depicted in the many relationships of the characters through the various stories presented in The Tale of Genji. The relationships in the tale are mainly romantic relationships that surround the Shining Prince Genji, along with other relationships such as parent and child, master and servant, and relationships between social contemporaries. The romantic relationships in the tale indirectly provide the reader with an understanding of the ideal man or woman in the Heian court. We can derive from various parts of the tale what social standards were like during the Heian period, and what constituted the ideal court lady or man.
When assessing Tale of Genji and attempting to understand the ideal qualities of a man or woman of the time, one must also take into account the author and the audience she writes for, as well as what should be considered a miniscule amount of background knowledge on the Heian era of Japan. Murasaki Shikibu was a gentlewoman in the services of the Empress Akiko (or Shoshi, as she is sometimes called) during the reign of Emperor Ichijou, taken into service for her remarkable literary prowess. The Heian court life was thus constantly revolving around our Murasaki, and allowed her to write what is arguably the most accurate literary depiction of itself and its inhabitants available to the public. The novel was written for the yokibito, or women of the aristocracy.
In every culture, women are treated differently, sometimes it could be in a good way or bad way. The book The Chronicles of a Death Foretold by, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, takes place in Sucre, Colombia, in Latin America where women are treated differently from men and children. They have to do tasks that are unexplainable. Here in this society women are expected to know how to cook, clean, and do chores. They must uphold traditions to attract their husbands. Their sole responsibility is to the house and their marriage eligibility depends on these abilities. Also women are expected to suffer in marriage and have kids.. “Any man will be happy with them because they have been raised to suffer” (Marquez 31). Proving that women are taught to be at certain standards, they would never be able to have a happy one
The Wife prefaces her tale with a rather lengthy prologue, in which she recounts in detail the story of her five different marriages. The prologue might at first glance appear to have very little relevance to the actual tale, but in fact the Wife’s treatment of her husbands (and their responses to her) are echoed later when she begins her tale. The Wife’s husbands fall into two categories: the rich and elderly, or the “goode,” and the young and virile, or the “badde” (203). The older husbands, while wealthy, are unable to satisfy the Wife in the bedroom. However, she takes great pleasure in dominating these men in almost every aspect of each marriage. Sh...
Since its initial 1954 release Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has always been considered one of the greatest motion pictures of all time. In this Japanese action epic Kurosawa set the standard for modern action, editing, and storytelling. The setup of the story is as follows: a poor farm village that struggles to survive is plagued by a ruthless group of bandits. Fed up with their oppressors the villagers go to the city to recruit samurai to help them defeat the bandits once and for all. From this basic premise comes one of the cinema's defining motion pictures. Kurosawa's distinct narrative style, editing, and staging have been an inspiration for multiple generations of filmmakers. Naturally, Kurosawa's many admirers have often paid direct homage to his work by recycling elements from his plots in order to try their own spin on the stories. The American western classic The Magnificent Seven begins with Kurosawa's initial concept of a small agricultural community being threatened by bandits who plunder their grain at the end of each harvest, but each story does it in its own way, and it also takes liberties which separate them from Seven Samurai.