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The novel ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri is comprised of many short stories including ‘This Blessed House’ and ‘The Third and Final Continent’. ‘This Blessed House’ is centered on a newlywed Indian couple moving into their house and finding Christian trinkets all over the house. ‘The Third and Final Continent’ is about another newlywed couple and their move to America. Both short stories are told from the point of view of the husband and have the recurring element of tradition, therefore the effects of tradition and culture on the daily lives and relationships of newlywed couples are highlighted. In ‘This Blessed House’ there is a contrast between the more traditional views of the husband and the wife’s unconventional ways. The …show more content…
However, the importance Sanjeev places in tradition is due to him caring what others think and not due to his personal value in the traditions and culture themselves. Twinkle notes this asking, ‘why does it matter to you so much to you what other people think?’ (page 147). This highlights how Sanjeev believes that staying within social traditional and cultural norms leads to social acceptance and is therefore important. This contrasts greatly to Twinkle’s belief that it doesn’t matter what other people think as long as you are happy. Twinkle’s belief is demonstrated through her love for Christian memorabilia because this fascination his unusual and far outside of cultural norms. This obviously does not bother her as she finds delight in these little ‘surprises’ and wonders, however unconventional. Twinkle’s unconventional-ness can also be seen through her actions and how she does not cook Indian food, (“Indian food, she complained, was a bother” (144)) and therefore Sanjeev is left to do all the cooking and “it was Sanjeev who was
Marriage is an important theme in the stories Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin. When someone hears the word “marriage”, he thinks of love and protection, but Hurston and Chopin see that differently. According to them, women are trapped in their marriage and they don’t know how to get out of it, so they use language devices to prove their points. Chopin uses personification to show Mrs. Mallard's attitudes towards her husband's death. Louise is mournful in her room alone and she is giving a description of the nature as a scene of her enjoying “the new spring life” and “the delicious breath of rain was in the air” (Chopin1).
The movement for female right is one of the important social issue and it is ongoing reaction against the traditional male definition of woman. In most civilizations there was very unequal treatment between women and men with the expectation being that women should simply stay in the house and let the men support them. A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, and Trifles, by Susan Glaspell, are two well-known plays that give rise to discussions over male-female relationships. In both stories, they illustrate the similar perspectives on how men repress women in their marriages; men consider that women should obey them and their respective on their wives is oppressed showing the problems in two marriages that described in two plays. Therefore, in this essay, I will compare two similar but contrast stories; A Doll's House and Trifles, focusing on how they describe the problems in marriage related to women as victims of suppressed right.
Marriage can be defined as an everlasting bond between two people. Two souls joining to form one. However, sometimes this bond can fade and the love that each person felt for one-another can dissipate and manifest into something uglier and darker than the warmth of love. In Elizabeth Stoddard’s poem The Wife Speaks, the speaker ponders her relationship and wonders what could be done to mend the void in her marriage to make it as it once was. Although the speaker’s current relationship is posing it be a challenge, though the use of a non-traditional structure, vivid imagery, and the emotional tone in this poem, the speaker coveys to the reader that though the sacrifices for marriage, the strive for perfection and the hope that things can get better, love will overcome and the unity with her husband will return.
“This Blessed House”, follows the same ideas of isolation in marriages. This story is about a husband and wife who move into a new home that has Christian decorations left from the previous owners. The wife, Twinkle, wants to keep some of the various items they find, but the husband, Sanjeev, does not want to keep any of it. This difference of opinion
A traditional extended family living in Northern India can become acquainted through the viewing of Dadi’s family. Dadi, meaning grandmother in Hindu, lets us explore her family up close and personal as we follow the trials and tribulations the family encounters through a daily basis. The family deals with the span of three generations and their conflicting interpretations of the ideal family life. Dadi lets us look at the family as a whole, but the film opens our eyes particularly on the women and the problems they face. The film inspects the women’s battle to secure their status in their family through dealing with a patriarchal mentality. The women also are seen attempting to exert their power, and through it all we are familiarized to
It is a late afternoon; the beagles are chirping, as they fade into the sunset, the waves are crashing along the seashore. The diamond ring reflects the rays of the sun on the woman’s finger, from a distance. The man beside her gives her his full attention. As he reaches for her hands, he comes closer to her, staring into her lovely eyes, while his fingers run through her silky hair, down onto her lips. He picks her up into the cold breeze, holding her tightly, not wanting to let go. The creases of his smile express the happiness and the love he feels whenever he is around her. The man leans towards her to give her a kiss, which symbolizes his love for her. Is this the typical husband we know of everyday? No. In society, a husband is defined “as a married man” (“Husband”). In other words, a husband is a person who is in a legal relationship with another person. Kate Chopin portrays two different types of husbands through two main characters, Bobinot and Alcee, during the 1960’s in the story “The Storm.” Bobinot illustrate the meaning of a husband because he demonstrates the attributions of a night shining armor to his wife, Calixta. In contrast, Alcee represents the opposite of a faithful husband because he is dishonest and Raymond Carver in the 1980’s validates how the role of the husband has changed throughout time, similar to how Alcee does not take his marriage or his wife seriously. A husband is not only a married man, but also someone who is respectful, faithfully, and understanding.
“Grandpére,” Anna’s husband, reveled in the “man’s pleasure” and beat his wife whenever he so desired (Lee 131). Traditionally, in patriarchal societies, the man was the head of the household. He was the one with all of the power, his desires and decisions were law. Anna’s husband embodies this traditional, powerful role of head of the family. He viewed both his w...
The writing I have chosen is the journal entries of Hannah Tinti’s “Home Sweet Home,” Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper.” I have selected these writings for the main focus of these writing is about the female protagonists and their mental war to be liberated from their oppressive husbands. In “Home Sweet Home,” the wife sees her husband having a malicious affair while she is taking care of his child born out of wedlock that she now loves and will seek vengeance by committing a double murder. In “The Story of an Hour,” the wife, with a heart condition, turned widow is distraught at the news of her late husband passing, but she then feels freedom in starting a new life without her husband
Martineau clearly had a strong political agenda in writing this story, however in doing so, she addresses the fundamental difference she sees in the roles of responsibility in marriage. In her mind, the husband and the wife have clearly defined roles, not so much along lines of production, but rather in terms of the household. That which is in the household, whether it is the domestic duties or financial responsibility, falls to the wife while it is the husband who is responsible for the income stream.
“Mrs. Sen” from Jhumpa Lahiri’s, 1999 short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” deals with the experience of the Indian immigrant to America. Mrs. Sen is constructed around her experiences of immigration and the cultural differences between Indian and America. Additionally, this story discusses the issues of identity, cultural displacement and the difficulties of those who are physically and psychologically displaced. In his book “The Postcolonial Short Story,” Paul Russell states that it Lahiri’s stories focuses more on dislocation rather than location and thus this dislocation has become a dominant trait and theme in her stories (np).
The man works, makes a living to support his family, provides food and shelter and accepts a position as the head of the family. The majority of jobs are not fulfilling. A man's existence at work is scarcely a spiritual uplift and ordinarily draining and exhausting. Even more distressing is a man's dependence on such, for bearing the responsibility for his naked family's hunger might be a bit disheartening. Exempting the guttedly-challenged, a man must also assume leadership of his home, governing and supervising the affairs therein (an action necessary as the dominant gender, but this topic shall be saved for a later time).
The bleak tone of this story takes a particularly sad and disturbing tinge when the wife illustrates a scene from early on in her marriage where she tries to get her husband to satisfy her desire and provide her with mutual satisfaction, only to have him rebuke and reprimand her. In fact, the husband responds in such a particularly brusque and hysterical manner that the reader can see how traumatized the wife would have been at ...
The Christian Home by P.D. Wilmeth was written to give the readers an in depth study of the home as God would have it. The introduction outlines the importance of the course “because the family is the foundation of our society-as goes the home, so goes society” (p11). As well as, key definitions for words and phrases used throughout the book. The Christian Home walks the reader through the different stages of the home as God would have it. Offering insight into the love (p20), difficulties(p42), and potential perils (p47) one might encounter in the home, Brother Wilmeth endeavors to prepare the Christian as best he can for marriage(pp96-107), children(pp109-120), and most importantly
This Blessed House by Jhumpa Lahiri is a short story that follows a small period of time in the two characters’ lives. Having known one another for only four months, newlyweds Sanjeev and Tanima, called Twinkle, are finding it difficult to adjust to married life. Both have very different personalities, a theme that Lahiri continuously points to throughout the story,. Their conflict comes to a head when Twinkle begins finding Christian relics all over the house. Sanjeev wants to throw the relics away, but Twinkle collects them on the mantle and shows them off at every opportunity. As a character, Sanjeev is unadventurous and exacting, while Twinkle is free-spirited and does not care for the fine details. The root of the conflict between Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters Sanjeev and Twinkle in “This Blessed House” is the clashing of their two very different personalities in a situation that forces them together.
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...