In “A Journey” Colm Toibin discusses the lonely heart of a mother and wife. Mary is trying to make a connection with both her husband and son, yet they seem unwilling and secluded. The family in general is dysfunctional because not only do they lack communication, but they’re also not family oriented. It is unusual for husband and wife to reside in the same home but rarely speak. Sometimes people give up on the things they anguish without even realizing the affects it has on their loved ones. Sad to say it is a common thing, the loss of affection. When someone goes into deep depression, it not only affects their emotional state, but their mental state as well. Consequently, they can lose hopelessness and with that their selves. “It seemed to her like something David would not give up, a special dark gift he had been offered” (Toibin 5). To the mother it is almost as if her son just decided to silence himself.…
c. This displays the irony that she is laughing while Amah cried, annoyed of her actions. Lament gives the character more passion of sorrow instead of saying "She cried, her usual sorrow,".…
So- called Lamentations are generally scenes of great soberness and sadness. Byzantine painters and Jacob narrates the same story with different style of painting and in different period. Both painters strove to make utterly convincing an emotionally charged realization of the theme. Both artists presented lamentation scene in more a natural setting and people in the image are fully modeled. They included crying Mary and other religious representation to tell their audience the story is taken from bible.…
Secondly, The Wife’s Lament is one of my favorite texts. I like it because it tells how this woman cries about her marriage that has failed. Then she know that her husband left the country and banished her in a den in the woods. While she’s in there she is all lonely and just wants her…
* Exposition – we are introduced to Leah. Her thoughts are revealed which illustrate the mind of a woman well on in her years, who has accepted (and is welcome to) the concept of death, and as such is reminiscing on her life – the death of her husband, her wrong-doings (her lying throughout her daily life)…
The narrator clearly feels imprisoned in her own life. The most evident example of specifically, her imprisonment of her marriage, is within the text of the first page. “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (76). This is when the reader is first presented with the character of John, her…
Heart-broken husband--weep no more; Grief-stricken son--weep no more; Left-lonesome daughter --weep no more; She only just gone home. Day before yesterday morning, God was looking down from his great, high heaven, Looking down on all his children, And his eye fell of Sister Caroline,…
The words in this poem were easy to understand. The word or phrase I found impacted me was “thy vows are all broken” this indicated that the couple was married. It allows for me to feel the despair the author may be feeling.…
In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, the main character (Mrs.Mallard) is a married woman. Mrs.Mallard was afflicted with a “heart problem”. The author was not very specific about her troubled heart, which seemed to be a symbol of not just physical, but emotional distress as well. Jaqueline (Ms.Mallards sister) took precaution before announcing her husbands death to her because of that issue. When Jaqueline finally stated that her husband had supposedly died, she weeped momentarily but her grief was gone once she realized a new sense of life that was to be experienced. Ms.Mallard became rather joyful instead. She isolated herself in a room, and as she examined the outside through her window, she discovered a new sense of independence and freedom within her, rather than grief towards her husbands death. “Body and soul free”, she began to say to herself. She was at her highest peak of happiness until later on in the story when it turned out her husband was alive all along. It is ironic that the main character was so ecstatic, that when she saw her husband standing before her, her shock and disappointment at the loss of her new life was so intense that she passed away.…
The third stanza sets the change for the fourth stanza which is anxious, desperate and pleading. The father who is felling almost abandoned is begging his son not to go, to “Let me tell it!” ‘it’ being the story. By the last stanza the narrator is again in third person (the father) and he is feeling emotional “It is and emotional rather than logical equation” This show the fathers love for his son. He says that his son “posits” (to put forward or ask) in a “supplications” manner (humbly) which makes the “father’s love add up to silence.” This means the he is lost for words. He is so overwhelmed by his love for his son that he is speechless thus leaving his “love [to] add up to…
Happiness was soon crushed by darkness “When the baby was about three months old, Désirée awoke one day to the conviction that there was something in the air menacing her peace” (243), and when this was said you can really picture a shadowed figure in the corner of her house bringing darkness about the house. Désirée’s happiness was not crushed just with the baby, but with her husband as well “Her husband had been acting like Satan had taken a hold of him” (243), this tells us that the presence in her house had changed her husband from the kind-hearted man she once knew to a darker person she hoped he would never become. Désirée almost seemed to have given up on her jubilation with her family “The blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moister gathered upon her face” (243), this shows that Désirée grew scared of the darkness that was in her house changing the people she loved and cherished the…
In "A Sorrowful Woman" the wife is depressed with her life, so much so, "The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them ever again"(p.1). This wife and mother has come to detest her life, the sight of her family, and withdraws into a deep depression. The “wife” is unhappy in her life because she wants more than to be just a wife and mother. She wants a life outside the home but doesn’t know how to get it, so she blames her existing life and family. This unhappiness goes against society’s view that a woman should be satisfied being a wife and mother. Proof of the stereotypical relationship is the husband character. It’s not that he is written as dislikeable, but rather likable, strong, and completely in control, “He managed everything"(p.3). He never gets mad; he makes no demands of her to improve. He enables her “sickness” by preparing her “medication,” hiring help, and keeping her child away. He, however, never takes on an active role to help her. He doesn’t communicate with her. He doesn’t get her physiological help. He makes no attempt to prove her value to him, the child, or the house. Clearly he believes he’s in control. Her depression turns into anger with her life. She blames her family and acts out, "After supper several nights later, she hit the child. She had known she was going to do it when the father would see"(p. 2). In the end, she knows her life isn’t enough, but it isn’t the family’s fault. She goes to the kitchen and…
The narrator is telling the story in her perspective. She is describing exactly what she is going through with her marriage and she is also explaining exactly how she feels. The narrator of this story is a young woman who is suffering from anxiety and depression after giving birth to her child. She is married to her husband John and they have recently rented a summer home for a few weeks. “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house and reach the height of romantic felicity- but that would be asking too much of fate!” (676). The narrator does not believe there is anything wrong with her but her husband, a physician, has diagnosed her with a slight hysterical tendency. Her husband has banned her from the outside world and has not allowed her to work until she gets better. She believes she would feel much better if she goes out and exercise from time to time. “Personally, I believe that congenital work, with excitement and change, would do me good” (677).…
"A Sorrowful Woman", a short story written by Gail Godwin, reflects the immense emotional struggles of women who do not necessarily portray the role as a 'perfect wife and mother'. With an undoubtedly supportive husband who caters to her and her son's every need with little to no flaw, the woman cannot bear the sadness that accompanies her inability to fulfill her motherly role due to her diagnosed illness. As the effects of her sickness begin to worsen, she resorts to isolation; however, the emotional ties between her, her kind husband, and well adjusting son become extremely overwhelming. Godwin represents the incongruity of this situation by depicting the husband as understanding and the least cause of the woman's stress. More…
In the next set of stanzas, the speaker asserts that the alternative choice to being unable to live with someone is to parish with them, but that has also been denied to her. She cannot live with him if she is lives, and in death, the “with” is taken away, too. She could die, but not with him because death is a private act. She argues that she has to wait to “shut the Other’s Gaze down,” the other being her lover, and to shut his gaze could mean to literally close his eyes. The Gaze could also imply that there is something sustaining in his longing, loving gaze upon her; it gives her life, and must be shut in order for death to occur. In the following line of “You- could not-” she has doubts that he would have the strength to do that for her. Her next argument is, that after his death, she would be denied the “Right of the Frost” and would only be able to long for death in his absence, but not attain it for herself.…