ENG215H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 56 pages long!)
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Despite her desire to challenge him and his world, elizabeth ultimately compromises her ambition and desire according to the over-determined fender roles of her traditional farming community. As a woman, the story suggests she must remain tied to her domestic sphere and continue to give the impression that her husband assumes all authority and control beyond the domestic realm. I need you/i didn"t need you key contradiction of the story. Within the gender codes of her social world, she needs walt to allow her, as a woman, to stay on the farm. Threat of public shaming identifies both the source and the limitations of her power. She can threaten to shame him by taking the team out and ploughing the field herself. But the story indicates that such an open and public flaunting of her competence and power would radically undermine and threaten the traditional gender scripts. Weeds the image of weeds choking the field recurs throughout the story.
