... and literature over the years. The Hindu goddesses still exist as powerful cultural ideals of women in South Asia. Both images tell women to devote themselves to their husbands to extremes of endurance, loyalty, and self-sacrifice. As Susan S. Wadley explains, [The god] Rama's wife Sita exemplifies the behaviour ... is also portrayed with the same traits that characterise the Indian woman. When she is born, she is seen to be a burden by her father: "he had wanted a son to continue his line and walk beside him on the land, not a puling infant who would take with her a dowry and leave noth...

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... the fire she used earlier to warm herself and then she "went outside to watch- (Fiction A Pocket Anthology R.S. Gwyn page 68 paragraph 4) Now the question is why didn't she just walk away? She was holding these soldiers accountable for the death of her son, and someone had to pay for it. As she ... was standing there watching, she was "armed with a gun, her dead son's rifle, to make sure that none of them could escape."" (Fiction ... Gwyn page 65 paragraph 2) This was all she had left of her family, her dead son's rifle that she used to remember him often. This was the same rifle that sh...

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... are re-introduced to Leonce Pontellier. He is very materialistic and loves to flaunt his wealth. Chopin first describes this at Grand Isle when he constantly buys treats for both his wife and children. It seems as if he thought he could buy their affections. Back at home, the extent to which his materialism exists is more obvious. He would walk around his house ... to admire all of his possessions, proud of himself for acquiring such a healthy collection. Chopin calls his belongings "household gods- signifying that he worshipped them ... seem trivial, ridiculous, and even unfortunate. ...

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