Reflection Chaucer

Running head: REFLECTION CHAUCER
REFLECTION CHAUCER
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author Note

1REFLECTION CHAUCER
Short Statement:
The respective story written by me which is titled “It happens and will always happen” is
a story having the themes and overtones of classical or traditional feminism. The respective story
is an eye opener of the lives of ambitious and independent women after they get married where
they have to murder their dreams and aspirations for the sake of their il-laws, family and family
honor. The purpose of the story is to provide the true picture of the so called “happy families”
where a woman has to sacrifice all her happiness, joy and passion in order to satisfy the
whimsical desires and male egos. Even though a woman becomes financially independent, the
society compels her to be socially dependent on their in-laws which results in obnoxious
outcome (Jardine, Alice, and Smith). In this case, Mrs. Chaucer, who never desired to get
pregnant, had to bear a child and as she became disinterested in her life and undermined her
health, she eventually died. The death of Mrs. Chaucer not only signifies the death of a life, but
the death of dreams and aspirations. The genre of the story is family drama and the medium of
the story is third person narrative.
Reflection:
The respective story that I have written which is entitled as “It happens and will always
happen” is a feminist piece which revolves around the life of married women and the socio-
cultural as well as socio-economic conditions around them which compels them to keep
themselves in the shackles of pseudo factors such as “family honor”, “family lineage”,
“motherhood” and femininity. Often, a woman is given the highest position in the society if and
only if she is a mother. In a patriarchal society, the most archaic and traditional way of looking at
women are as mothers and homemakers, which has been a reality even now, even at