Treating Each Other with Respect as Husband and Wife
Compare and Contrast: Treating Each Other With Respect as Husband and Wife
In the two pieces of literary works, I’m Going (1915) and The Necklace (1884), the authors Tristan Bernard and Guy de Maupassant were able to show, through their use of literary words, what role each spouse plays in the marriage and how each spouse in turn treats the other. In one story, “I’m Going”, the reader finds a husband who obviously runs the house and is able to guilt his wife into staying home while her husband is only out for “his” own pleasure and who really doesn’t care how he has made his wife feel. In “The Necklace” the reader finds another husband who is the breadwinner in the family and is willing to give up the money that he had saved for something of his own and gave it to his wife so that she could feel beautiful and fit in with others at a dinner. He knew that how his wife felt about herself was very important to him. The reader can understand that in the time frame that these two pieces were written, that the specific rolls for a husband and a wife were pretty well known. This being that the husband works to support family and wife is to stay home and take care of the house. By the use of the literary tools the reader will be able to see that the writers were each trying to convey that even though both husbands were the head of the house by being the bread winners, the wives however were treated completely different, one felt like a child, the other felt nothing but loved. By the end of the two pieces of work the reader will see one husband who cares only of himself and another who was willing to do anything for his wife. The reader will also see one wife who does what she is told as she ended up sitting home alone and another wife who knows undoubtedly how much her husband loves her even though making her feel beautiful cost them literally ten years of their lives.
Even though one of these pieces of literature is written as a short play, both pieces are
In the two pieces of literary works, I’m Going (1915) and The Necklace (1884), the authors Tristan Bernard and Guy de Maupassant were able to show, through their use of literary words, what role each spouse plays in the marriage and how each spouse in turn treats the other. In one story, “I’m Going”, the reader finds a husband who obviously runs the house and is able to guilt his wife into staying home while her husband is only out for “his” own pleasure and who really doesn’t care how he has made his wife feel. In “The Necklace” the reader finds another husband who is the breadwinner in the family and is willing to give up the money that he had saved for something of his own and gave it to his wife so that she could feel beautiful and fit in with others at a dinner. He knew that how his wife felt about herself was very important to him. The reader can understand that in the time frame that these two pieces were written, that the specific rolls for a husband and a wife were pretty well known. This being that the husband works to support family and wife is to stay home and take care of the house. By the use of the literary tools the reader will be able to see that the writers were each trying to convey that even though both husbands were the head of the house by being the bread winners, the wives however were treated completely different, one felt like a child, the other felt nothing but loved. By the end of the two pieces of work the reader will see one husband who cares only of himself and another who was willing to do anything for his wife. The reader will also see one wife who does what she is told as she ended up sitting home alone and another wife who knows undoubtedly how much her husband loves her even though making her feel beautiful cost them literally ten years of their lives.
Even though one of these pieces of literature is written as a short play, both pieces are
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