‘Hey You Down There’ and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ In Lamb to the Slaughter‚ Mary Maloney cannot wait for her husband Patrick‚ who is a policeman to come home. When he gets home‚ he tells her he is leaving her. Although she is stunned‚ she still wants to make him supper. She cannot believe what she is hearing. She gets a leg of lamb‚ which is frozen and in an impulse she kills her husband with it. Pretending nothing has happened‚ she goes to the grocers to get vegetables. Mary gets back home and calls
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has more than one husbands. In Tibet those husbands are often brothers (fraternal polyandry). The wife may not say anything on who the father of the child is so as to avoid tensions and in some cases she might be unsure of the biological father. Even though polyandrous marriages are used to curb population growth and minimise land fragmentation‚ these forms of marriages are not really stable. Usually some of them may be characterised by tensions and clashes between the husbands if there is sexual
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“virtue” ! Equitable laws (for both husband and wife) have created a more sanctimonious marriage pact that allows men and women to choose their own partners (instead of it being dictated by family and politics) ! If husband and wife are on equal levels to each other‚ then the wife will be a better mother to her children. She will teach her children the “virtue” she has acquired and provide an example of a righteous marriage for them – one where she and her husband are friends. Introduction ! Because
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other. These women longed for their husbands to come home. I can’t even imagine the feeling and thoughts going across their minds. They didn’t even know if their husband was alive or dead; in good health or maimed. “I make this song about me full sadly my own wayfaring. I a woman tell what griefs I had since I grew up new or old never more than now. Ever I know the dark of my exile.” (The Wife’s Lament lines 1-5) These poor women were in “exile” while their husbands were gone. They just had to go about
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inside‚ she gathered up what she had been sewing and she starts saying how she worried about her son and husband and Alcée speaks up and says “let us hope‚ Calixta that Bobinôt got sense enough to come in out of a cyclone.” After that was said Calixta got a very disturbed look on her face‚ the fact that she knew where her son and husband were and this man in her home talking about her husband like he was greatly
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unquestionable. Nora holds Torvald in extremely high regard as misinformed children usually do‚ blind to anything besides what they choose to see. Though responsible for her own actions‚ Torvald can be considered as the primary cause for Nora’s nature. Her husband puts her in the place she has‚ a toy doll‚ like one of her toddler’s. Torvald continuously refers to Nora with ridiculous pet names such as skylark and squirrel‚ and never as his equal or his spouse. This grants Mrs. Linde a perfect reason to criticize
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now not having to depend on her husband and be in the house as all wives are expected to do. Also‚ when Mrs. Mallard stepped out of her room Mrs. Mallard had a “feverish triumph in her eyes‚ and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.” (paragraph 19). In which I thought that the excerpt was trying to say Mrs. Mallard has come out of her room with a goal to be an independent and free women and she has already got the freedom because of her husband
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the young girls gone‚ long time passing? Where have all the young girls gone‚ long time ago? Where have all the young girls gone? Gone for husbands everyone. Oh‚ when will they ever learn? Oh‚ when will they ever learn? Where have all the husbands gone‚ long time passing? Where have all the husbands gone‚ long time ago? Where have all the husbands gone? Gone for soldiers everyone Oh‚ when will they ever learn? Oh‚ when will they ever learn? Where have all the soldiers gone‚ long time
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enjoyment they have together. The imagery in these lines is so amazingly written and described. The wife acknowledges the husbands fear that she will not kill him if he terminally ill. The narrator uses pathos while assuring her husband “I tell you you don’t/ know me if you think I will not/ kill you.” The impact of this line also shows just how much she loves her husband. The fact that the couple is “renewing our promise/ to kill each other” allows the reader to also feel great emotion towards
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tendency of people to live in their own myths. Myths in this context symbolize image or illusions. The wife thinks that her husband is not cranky but the fact is her husband really cranky. The wife believes that her husband is very understanding‚ generous‚ and deep downs but the fact her husband not really like that. She built her husbands image by herself‚ she wants her husband to be like this or like that. This essay describe about human nature‚ people often picture what they want or make an illusion
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