A Gift for His Wife: A Bored Housewives Story

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It would seem that Marie has it all: a loving husband, a charming child, and a good job. But something elusive with a terrific force continues to pull her to another life to another man. (French with English subtitles).

Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, in The Major Plays, translated by Ann Dunigan (New York: Signet, 1964), 184. All further references come from this edition and will be given parenthetically in the text. [ ⤒] Navigate to the sub-categories of Classic and Specialist Vehicles Classic and Specialist Vehicles 1 I owe this observation about the coffee filter as hourglass to Ivone Margulies, who in turn credits the insight to the Belgian art critic Thierry de Duve. Margulies, Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), 78. [ ⤒]My anxiety went through the roof on Saturday and I spent most of the day crying. I was very emotional and thought perhaps I was ovulating. My baby app predicted this week to be my fertile week, so we shall see in two weeks whether or not the stork is bringing us a baby! I was just wondering if the rumours of bored housewives were true! Do I have to watch out for the milkman or keep my eye on the plumber when he pops around? And generally is it true that wives get bored and misbehave?!? What is the number of women that cheat on their guys? Beautiful Yelena stalks through Uncle Vanya (1898) like a wraith, agonized by her boredom — "too indolent to live," Vanya remarks. 2 She is married to an old professor who spends his days burrowing into scholarship. His labors are pointless, the play suggests; but at least he has his work. Yelena understands there is noble work to be done, but she cannot imagine doing it. "Only in idealistic novels," she says, "do people teach and doctor the peasants" (203). Swaying with indolence, she is the most conspicuous figure in Chekhov's parade of empty lives. Clinical, even ethological, in its precision, Jeanne Dielmanobserves these menial rituals at such great length — the film runs 3 hours, 18 minutes — that we grow attuned to the most minor deviations from the heroine's established patterns. By the film's second half, when errors introduce themselves into her routine — a fork falls, a shoe drops, her typical seat in the café is taken — our attention has been so enlarged, the details so magnified, that we are able to detect the breakdown of the machine. The film "demands total attention," a New York Timesreviewer commented. "If one gives it anything less its revenge will be a boredom so complete it might be fatal." 10 Indeed, fatal boredom is the film's true subject: the climax is Jeanne's murder of a client with a pair of scissors. Boredom is a state of detachment. It involves an inability, or an unwillingness, to engage with the objects in one's immediate reality and find them interesting or meaningful. Why detach? In certain cases, boredom could arise if the bored person has not received the appropriate training to appreciate the object or situation they find boring. (Imagine my stuttering dismay when a class of students informed me that they found Middlemarchdull.) Such boredom is, in theory, correctible. Nothing is boring to the mind of God: a supremely cultivated intelligence can find interest and value in any phenomenon, no matter how minor.

Ashim leaves for Pune on official work, leaving his wife in Calcutta. Taking advantage of his absence, Jeena and Partha go to a resort near Puri for the time Ashim is in Pune. And there Jeena finds sexual fulfillment of a kind she hadn’t found with Ashim, who is 11 years her senior. She is so much into Partha that she even wears a bikini for him on an isolated beach, where he makes love to her. In the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, an aristocratic, worldly mode of resignation yielded to bourgeois withdrawal into the "interior" — literally, of the home and, figuratively, of the self. Through this discursive shift from public mourning to private suffering, from collective to individual forms of malaise . . . a modern conception of subjectivity came into being. Chandana, in the meantime, commits suicide following a nervous breakdown. The blame for it, of course, falls on Debashish, who, now free of any commitments, pursues Trina vigorously.Follows the lives and relationships of a group of five husbands and wives who live on the same street in the fictional community of Maxine.

T. J. Clark, Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 18. [ ⤒] A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. He said: “I’ve been amazed at the response I’ve had. I’ve not advertised anywhere else – no need to. I’m struggling to handle any more responses from women and the occasional male.

Debashish and Trina, who had been neighbours when they were kids, meet years later, when Debashish is hired by Sachin, Trina’s husband, to redo their ancestral home. Even as the interiors of the house get renovated, Debashish and Trina duly Sonya tells Yelena: "boredom and idleness are catching" — a reflection of Chekhov's understanding of boredom as a pathology requiring diagnosis (203). See Elizabeth M. Phillips, "Chekhov, Boredom, and Pathology as Dramatic Technique," Modern Drama63, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 39-62. [ ⤒] Jeanne Dielmanrecalls Picasso's Cubism in its discovery of infinite complexity within a mundane bourgeois interior, its reliance on still-life compositions of objects on a table, and the rewards it offers to sustained looking. Unlike Picasso, however, the film commits itself to the bare representation of reality. There are no montages or zoom shots or expressionist bursts of color; any disclosure of personality is conveyed through external objects alone. We infer Jeanne's dissatisfaction, for example, when she makes coffee, tastes it, pours it out, grinds beans for a new batch, and then watches the coffee seep slowly through the hourglass-shaped filter in one of the film's most poignant images of time passing. 11She said: “It is such a shame that people have felt pressured to turn to this way of making money because they are not getting enough support from the Government. In both these novels, the lead characters want to break away from their families but are bound by the times they live in. Trina is overcome by guilt, and finds it difficult to differentiate between love and sin. “Love was one thing, sin was another — and although it was difficult to differentiate love from sin, Trina had learnt to identify some of the signs,” writes Mukhopadhyay. Yet at the same time there is a craving for something new. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.