The story by Somerville Ross, “Philippa’s Fox Hunt” was set in Ireland. A recently married couple Mr. and Mrs. Yeates were featured adapting to a new environment. The new place was characterized by new social activities that were not common in their previous residence. They had to learn new skills such as riding horses and hunting. Mr. Yeates who narrated the story described his life after marriage and how events had shaped his marriage. At the very beginning I was able to pick an element of symbolism; a newly married couple will naturally start a new life and similarly in the story the couple ventured into a new society where almost everything was new just in the same way when two people get married to each other. The starting of the story kept me in suspense: the starting sentence, “No one can accuse Philippa and me of having married in haste” (Fox 1). This clearly brought up the theme of love and marriage. The selection of words by the narrator told that the speaker did not regret his marriage. The defensive tone of the narrator made me to think that perhaps people had criticized his marriage. Theme of religion came out clearly in this story: “Philippa had what are known as High Church proclivities, and took the matter seriously” (Fox 1). People in this context honor God by fasting. One lady, Julia said that she could not eat an egg on a fasting day. Mr. Yeates said that his wife always had a gift for the church and that she highly honored the elders of the church. These are indications of a society that had religion at heart. Family was a place of gathering where people met to eat, drink and socialize. The people in the story were also religious as shown by Mrs. Knox as she prayed for her family. The narrator described th... ... middle of paper ... ...ople see from outside might not be the truth about a particular marriage though there may be some truth in it. Most weddings are done in church. The newly wedded couple is supposed to hold on to their faithfulness in God. Praying and fasting are major activities that are recommended for the couples. Church, best maids and the altar are a symbol of holiness in marriage and that still applies in today’s life. Church weddings are upheld in the society and people take pride being associated with weddings. In conclusion, Somerville and Ross story “Phillipa’s Fox Hunt” is a story of relevance in today’s society especially in marriage. Social activities and the role of women and men in marriage is a topic of interest to many people of our age. The story was written with a lot of thought. Works Cited Fox, Hunt. Philippa’s Fox Hunt. Elfinspell, n.d. Web. June 15, 2011.
Brush’s choice of words is the primary indicator of a shift in the story’s direction. It begins by describing the couple as ‘unmistakingly married’ and ‘nothing conspicuous about them’. However, later on it describes the husband as ‘indignant’ and his words as ‘curt’. The wife is described as ‘pathetic’ and ‘heart-broken’. This choice of words insinuates the true nature of the couple
Spending time with each other, having strong morals and giving a lot of love are a few of the things that give families hope and happiness. In the novel A Death in the Family (1938) by James Agee, a family has to use these advantages in order to make it through a very difficult time. During the middle of one night in 1915, the husband, Jay, and his wife, Mary, receive a phone call saying that Jay's father is dying. Ralph, the person who called, is Jay's brother, and he happens to be drunk. Jay doesn't know if he can trust Ralph in saying that their father is dying, but he doesn't want to take the chance of never seeing his father again, so he decides to go see his father. He kisses his wife goodbye and tells her he might be back for dinner the next day, but not to wait up for him. Dinner comes and goes, but he never arrives. That night, Mary gets awakened by a caller saying that Jay has been in a serious auto accident. She later finds out that he died. The rest of the novel is about Mary and her family's reactions to the death. This experience for Mary and her family is something that changes their lives forever, but it doesn't ruin them. If someone has a close person to them decease, he or she feel as if they cannot go on, but because of the close family ties that Mary, Jay, and their children shared, they know that they will be able to continue on after Jays death.
...they needed to adopt new, indirect strategies of exerting control over their children’s lives. While parents began to grant their children greater autonomy, they still required their children to be present at family dinners and gatherings. However, they realized that coercion at meals was neither an effective means to gain control over their children nor a viable way of transmitting traditional values. As such, they began to transform meals into a convivial atmosphere as an investment in family ties. Sunday dinners and holiday feasts became some of the most important times where the close bonds of the immediate and extended family were maintained and enforced as an important aspect of life. They used family dinners and gatherings as a means to maintain group solidarity in a new world where external forces were calling for “Americanization” and collective identity.
Family in the novel is described as a group of people that have a unit or bond that they share each day
Human; relating to or having characteristics of a person(Merriam-Webster). A human is truly just a soul combined with characteristics of other people, and this is proven by Jenna Fox; the main character in The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson. After finding out what her body is made up of, Jenna along with other characters think she is not human. Despite this Jenna Fox has always had the key elements it takes to be a human been. Jenna for one has a past and memories that make up her life even after the accident. More importantly it is unfair to call her a “monster” when she shows characteristics similar to that of other humans. Needless to say, Jenna just as any other human isn’t perfect, and she later learns that in order to be one hundred percent human she must have the same chances of succeeding in life as any other human would. Jenna Fox is human because she has a soul regardless of her differences.
...ommunity and belonging that they had wanted. They’d gone through hard times, however they gained a community that they can call “family.” After all, they believed that their hard work benefited the community and enjoyed in knowing that. Because of them, the community became a “family.”
...ert stay in the public eye, their marriage is saved by decisions made based upon ideals.
Weddings today are much more different then marriages of the past. Many of the customs from then have made their way to this era but also many haven’t. we can see many differences and also many similarities. The biggest difference is the control of marriages and the arranged marriages that took place. In today’s culture we are not grouped by social stature as they were then, our marriages are based on love not class. I think this is a good thing and I am happy to be blessed by God to be able to have the freedom of choice in something as important and life changing as a marriage.
Immediately, the narrator stereotypes the couple by saying “they looked unmistakably married” (1). The couple symbolizes a relationship. Because marriage is the deepest human relationship, Brush chose a married couple to underscore her message and strengthen the story. The husband’s words weaken their relationship. When the man rejects his wife’s gift with “punishing…quick, curt, and unkind” (19) words, he is being selfish. Selfishness is a matter of taking, just as love is a matter of giving. He has taken her emotional energy, and she is left “crying quietly and heartbrokenly” (21). Using unkind words, the husband drains his wife of emotional strength and damages their relationship.
The couples share a certain amount of love for each other but the disconnection was stronger. The protagonist’s disconnection is evident because her husband treats her like a little girl instead of a wife when he takes her “ …in her arms and called [her] a blessed little goose” (p121). The Mallard’s disconnection is also evident because her husband’s “face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead” (p 15). This is not the emotion a wife wants to feel from her husband.
This suggests that even as a widow, a woman was not free to do as she pleased, with regards to who she was to wed. The fact that a widow was being dictated to, showed that the village society was more patriarchal than that of the society that existe...
Though there is not much common ground to be found between the marriage ceremonies of Islam and Christianity, when examined closely it is noticeable that each allows the marrying couple to connect with their God. In Christianity, it is believed that by having the ceremony in a church the couple is able to become closer to their god. This allows the couple, then to link their marriage to that of Jesus’ relationship with the human race. The same can be said for Islamic marriage ceremony, in which, the marrying couple proclaims their devotion to their lord, Allah. Though in both ceremonies are based on the joining of two people, two families into one, the ceremonies are completely dissimilar. In Christianity, the marriage ritual is seen as a celebration of love, yet in Islam, marriage is seen as more of a contract between the couple. This is because of the Islamic idea that marriage isn’t based on love, however, love spawns from the marriage. So unlike Christianity, where the couple makes vows to love each other through everything, the Islamic...
When a man and a woman come together and bind in holy matrimony, two people become one. In marriage, two people come before the pastor and under God with their partner, to recite promises that are vows. In many religions such as Christianity and Catholicism, sex should be for left only for marriage. Sex is an emotional experience that is for married people to enjoy sexual pleasure together. Love and trust are sacred for the foundation of marriage.
Mrs. Mallard is breaking traditional gender roles by being happy to learn of her husband’s supposed death. The traditional gender roles of a marriage would have assumed that the wife would be overcome with grief after learning about the passing of her husband. A wife was not supposed to be unhappy in her marriage. This short story was first published in 1894. This was a time where women were treated as second class citizens. One way that this view is greatly expressed in history is through women’s suffrage. Women were not given the right to vote until the 19th amendment which was ratified in 1920, 26 years after “The Story of an Hour” was first published. At the time this story was written, women were expected lean on their husbands for support. The man was expected to be the head of the household, be the main source of income, and to have the final say in household decisions. Perhaps, this is what Kate Chopin was attempting to criticize by writing this story. She wanted to show how a married woman was not a free woman, as she would always be living underneath the shadow of her husband. In current times, these gender roles are not as pronounced. It is more acceptable in the modern day for a woman to live on her own, for her to be the dominant character in a marriage. These gender roles do, however, still exist. They are just not as strongly adhered
Women rights were extremely limited in may ways. Once they were married, their husband held all of their freedom. This story describes one case, Mrs. Mallard, and her experiences with hearing the news of a tragic accident which resulted in leaving her husband dead. She is overjoyed, because she knows she will be free. She will not have to live under him. Mrs. Mallard will finally get the chance to live her own life along with inheriting his goods. Knowing the rights women had and did not have in late 1800s ties together the reality of this short story.