What It Means To Be A Wife Analysis
Tutor-marked Assignment D
1.
a)
The first subject focuses on what it means to be a wife and how the wife relates to the marriage. It also talks about submitting to your husband and the relational positions, giving it a more positive outlook towards marriage.
The second passage gives a negative outlook, focusing on the opposite of marriage-divorce. We know this because we read about the negative emotions that come with a failing marriage such as loneliness and bitterness.
b)
I think the first passage could be directed to a newly married woman who is learning about the roles in a marriage and how each should fulfil one another accordingly and/or it could be directed to a married woman who is looking to simply improve her marriage.
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She dispels the fact that a woman would feel lonely or unloved without a man and that as long as she feels wanted by other people, she cannot be lonely. A “total woman”, according to Morgan, is a married woman who “graciously chooses to adapt to her husband’s way”, in other words, submitting to her husband. It places the emphasis on the unity of two people and how they work together as one. The “total woman” isn’t independent as such but is one with her husband. …show more content…
We see in this passage a big focus on what the husband wants and we even see the downplaying of the woman’s needs. For instance, Morgan writes about how a “total woman” should adapt to her husband’s way, even when she desperately may not want to. Some people may argue the fact that marriage should be equal and the husband should adapt to his wife in the same way that she should adapt to him. Morgan states that “a queen shall not nag or buck her king’s decision”, but this alone leads readers to wonder where the woman’s voice is in all this.
In Greer’s passage we see comparison and contrast between the loneliness felt by the distance of being with someone we love and the loneliness felt by actually being alone. Greer argues that the latter is more desirable and basically presupposes that women who sacrifice marriage will be women who are far better off. In conclusion, Greer believes that we would all be better off without marriage, for the idea of marriage, or the “marriage bargain”, is not what it seems. It just leaves us feeling vulnerable and disappointed as a result of our expectations of emotional security.
2.
1.
a)
The first subject focuses on what it means to be a wife and how the wife relates to the marriage. It also talks about submitting to your husband and the relational positions, giving it a more positive outlook towards marriage.
The second passage gives a negative outlook, focusing on the opposite of marriage-divorce. We know this because we read about the negative emotions that come with a failing marriage such as loneliness and bitterness.
b)
I think the first passage could be directed to a newly married woman who is learning about the roles in a marriage and how each should fulfil one another accordingly and/or it could be directed to a married woman who is looking to simply improve her marriage.
The …show more content…
She dispels the fact that a woman would feel lonely or unloved without a man and that as long as she feels wanted by other people, she cannot be lonely. A “total woman”, according to Morgan, is a married woman who “graciously chooses to adapt to her husband’s way”, in other words, submitting to her husband. It places the emphasis on the unity of two people and how they work together as one. The “total woman” isn’t independent as such but is one with her husband. …show more content…
We see in this passage a big focus on what the husband wants and we even see the downplaying of the woman’s needs. For instance, Morgan writes about how a “total woman” should adapt to her husband’s way, even when she desperately may not want to. Some people may argue the fact that marriage should be equal and the husband should adapt to his wife in the same way that she should adapt to him. Morgan states that “a queen shall not nag or buck her king’s decision”, but this alone leads readers to wonder where the woman’s voice is in all this.
In Greer’s passage we see comparison and contrast between the loneliness felt by the distance of being with someone we love and the loneliness felt by actually being alone. Greer argues that the latter is more desirable and basically presupposes that women who sacrifice marriage will be women who are far better off. In conclusion, Greer believes that we would all be better off without marriage, for the idea of marriage, or the “marriage bargain”, is not what it seems. It just leaves us feeling vulnerable and disappointed as a result of our expectations of emotional security.
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