JONATHAN AGYEMANG HUNTER COLLEGE
12/16/15 PROFESSOR:SHAPIRO
What's That Smell in the Kitchen?
Living together as a husband and wife has become a norm of life and accepted by the law to go through certain principles in order to live under the same roof in the constitutions set up by different countries when a man and a woman agree to live under one roof and become one in flesh it is almost assumed by the law court that they are husband and wife and the bible confirms those principals “Marriage is a good thing he who finds a "He who finds a wife finds
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In the proem the writer was trying to explain the way, a manner women have had enough of men and really want to come out of their shells and exercise their freedom.The symbol of marriage has put women in bondage so much so that they cannot exercise their freedom and their God gives talent hence as they got sick and tired of men their attitude and actions in everything they do change and as a result of that their role as woman in the home also changed. Out of hunger they begin to operate in a different way that affect the entire family, most especially the husband who is the head of the family.”If she wants to grill anything, it's her husband over a slow fire”.(13-14) .Men have kept in their mind that since they are the head of the family they have the right and everything to control the home, hence have made the women slave and used them as machines to their pleasure.This is something that has been going for decades and therefore some women began to rise to fight for their rights and freedom which resulted the poem “what’s the smell in the kitchen”.the lines in the poem explains “women are burning” as how women are angry as if they are finally sick and tired and have had enough of men. The poet in this sense trying to declare a fight or a war on a society for trying to take an advantage of women and in this sense Piercy uses the major cities in America to bring to the notion that women are being mistreated throughout the country infact taking a critical look at the poet statement women are being seen as mere objects and being treated as housewives who are amounting to nothing but to stay in the kitchen to serve the husband. She used a bunch of food and different locations which demonstrates
He is explaining how a wife’s life is that of her husband. No matter what condition or temperament her husband comes home in, she must tend to his every need no questions asked. This is a very unfair way for women to live their lives seeing as she has hardly anything in her life that is her own.
Each line has a meaning that helps convey the message of empowerment and embracing sexuality. For example, in the first line, “I am the middle-of-the week wife.” (Cisnero,77). She is not a ‘traditional’ wife because a ‘traditional’ wife’s role is to overall take care her husband and her family every day; not just for one day. Unless she is a marry woman, who acts like a traditional wife for one day while the rest of the week, she spends her free time alone. However, she proclaims herself the “middle-of-the week wife”. This means that she is a mistress of a married man and she comes over in the middle of the week such on Tuesdays or even Wednesday to adultery. She calls
Women’s Escape into Misery Women’s need for male support and their husband’s constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza’s stories were about women’s dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perfect family and home. Sally, Rafaela, and Minerva are women who gave me the impression of [damsel’s in distress].CLICHÉ, it’s ok though. It’s relevant They wished for a man to sweep them of their feet and rescue them from their present misery. These characters are inspiring and strong but they are unable to escape the repression of the surrounding environment. *Cisneros presents a rigid world in which they lived in, and left them no other hope but to get married. Esperanza, however, is a very tough girl who knows what she wants. She will keep dreaming and striving until she gets it. She says, "I am too strong for her [Mango Street] to keep me here" (110). Esperanza learned from all of these women that she was not going to be tied down. She said, "I have decided not to grow up tame like the others who lay their necks on the threshold waiting for the ball and chain" (88). **Especially after seeing that Sally was suffering so much. Sally’s father is making her want to leave home by beating her. Sally "said her mother rubs lard on the places were it hurts" (93). There is not enough lard in the world to be able to cure the pain within Sally’s heart. Sally, "met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar" (101). Pretty soon " sally got married, she has her house now, her pillowcases and her plates" (101). Her marriage seems to free her from her father, but in reality she has now stepped into a world of misery. This was supposed to help her heal; " she says she is in love, but I think she did it to escape." (101). Unlike the other women Sally has no escape, no poetry, not even papaya coconut juice, not to mention, " he does not let her look out the window" (102). That is why "she sits at home because she is afraid to go outside without his permission."(102). Rafaela’s situation also involves imprisonment in her own home. Cisneros introduced us to Rafaela, a young beautiful girl whose expectations from marriage were to obtain a sweet home to live in. Instead...
Men felt superior, “Hombres with the devil in their flesh who would come to a pueblo… never meaning to stay, only to have a good time and to seduce the women,” which made women feel inferior. Women were only used for a man’s pleasure. For that reason, they would not wed them. As generations progressed, they soon found an exception to wed, which considered the woman as the man’s property. Women were never looked as individuals if they got married. Women found control within themselves to not be recognized as only a man’s property, but that they have the opportunity to achieve much greater things than just being a housewife. The women found that their bodies shouldn’t be used for pleasure, but for greater achievements such as widening their education career. Worry, her uncle went missing. It affects the family’s lifestyle since her uncle did not land in the U.S. but somewhere unknown. Mamá, “went wild with worry” which is normal since it is her son (33). Her son is missing, while Mamá’s husband had premonitions of where their son could be located. Terror filled mamá with the “nightmares… she saw her son mistreated and worse,” which can be a mother’s worst fear (33). Mamá fears for the life of her son, the tone is fear and worry. In a Puerto Rican woman’s life, this is far one of her top priorities, her family. Family is one of the biggest priorities in a woman’s life, especially if they sense
Thesis Statement: Men and women were in different social classes, women were expected to be in charge of running the household, the hardships of motherhood. The roles that men and women were expected to live up to would be called oppressive and offensive by today’s standards, but it was a very different world than the one we have become accustomed to in our time. Men and women were seen to live in separate social class from the men where women were considered not only physically weaker, but morally superior to men. This meant that women were the best suited for the domestic role of keeping the house. Women were not allowed in the public circle and forbidden to be involved with politics and economic affairs as the men made all the
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.
This imprisonment woman opens her eye when her husband try to build a barn while he has been promised her more than 40 years ago. She starts saying “‘I’m goin’ to talk real plain to you; I never have sence I married you, but I’m goin’ to now” (pra.77).For long time, this woman is speechless, undecided and voiceless in her own house hold; however because of the this burn issue she notices herself not as a second and imprisoned citizen, but as an owner who is able to decided saying “real plain” which can be basic and natural right of a human. In addition, she states as “‘unsolicited opportunities are the guide-posts of the Lord to the new road of life’” (par. 114). She calls her leading role against of the tradition that keep her as secondary and imprisonment of husband and culture as “new road of life”. She steps out of her cage and makes her decision to move forward while her husband is out of the town. She moves from the “old house” which she has been lived to the “new burn” that starts her new life. Also, it can be forget old happening, but it is a good start as equal as her husband. In addition, Mrs. Penn caging is not only by her husband, but also by her church/tradition. This is highlighted with the visit of the elder from her church; however, the visit of the church man couldn’t hold her from her new road of life to free
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Stephanie Coontz, author of The Evolution of Matrimony: The Changing Social Context of Marriage, writes that there has been more changes in marriage in the past 30 years then there was in the 3,000 years earlier. With these changes there are no religious or cultural exclusions. Coontz claims, “Right here is America’s Bible belt exist some of the highest rates of divorce and unwed motherhood in the country, and born again Christians d...
This essay will analyze the themes of sexual and class exploitations in the story “The Wife’s Resentment” by Delariviere Manley. By exploring these themes we are able to get an idea of why Manley wrote this story. That is, she hoped to make young women, whether rich or poor, aware of the value of their virtue as well as their rights as married or single women to protect that virtue or honor. By revealing the themes that are presented in the story, we can see what Manley stood for and why she wrote this story in the period she lived in.
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).
...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.
The narrator, a young girl, feels more inclined to spend her time outside alongside her father, “I worked willingly under his eyes, and with a feeling of pride.” She finds her place in a man’s world, outdoors in her father’s domain. While she is a female, she does not relate herself to the things of feminine nature. When her mother goes to speak with her father in the barn, the narrator “felt my mother had no business down here,” admitting that it was a man’s world, and also her place, but not her mother’s. Her mother could not stand the idea of her daughter doing a man’s work, reminding her husband, “Wait till Laird gets a little bigger, then you’ll have real help and then I can use her more in the house.
This is a changed from the civilization or society that we living in. If we are indolent we can continuously snatch a cheeseburger from the fast nutriment restaurant anywhere they completely do not have this choice. The writer debates further in complexity approximately her learning of the "adolescent girl in Samoa. She details about the different variables that she need stare at to find a better perception of in what way she grows up. She stares at the whole thing from vigorous to marital status of each associate of the girls' family
Men were the ones in the family who worked and provided for his family's wellbeing. Because of the family's economic dependence on the husband, he had control over all of his family members. This showed the amount of progress needing to come in the future to allow women to start receiving some of the many rights they deserved which men had and so frequently took for granted.