A Gift for His Wife: A Bored Housewives Story

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Nothing is boring to the mind of God: a supremely cultivated intelligence can find interest and value in any phenomenon, no matter how minor. Thea evades the boredom of housewifery by finding an object that fascinates her: serving as an adjunct to Lövborg's projects.

Debashish was once a ladies’ man, but ended up marrying Chandana after she became pregnant with his child. And that’s what they do, at least for a while, till Trina starts to feel uncomfortable and decides to go back to her husband. picks up a refrain heard several times earlier in the play's examination of bourgeois manners (364).

This is the boredom provoked when one's environment is so narrow or stupid or coarse that to submit to it — to agree to find it engaging or worthwhile — would feel false, even degrading.

With my little girl i used to hate the fact she needed to sleep in afternoon as felt traped in house but realise now its only for short time and get to catch up then on boring stuff. A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.Although her son is well into his teenage years, she occasionally looks after a neighbor's howling infant. These works, very different from each other in their scope, aims, context, and aesthetic form, imagine the bored housewife as the figure on whom the maintenance and future of middle-class existence depends.

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.Drama supplied a social landscape I was missing, a chorus of voices, the charm and twist of conversation.

One man, selling ‘private video shoots’ in Oxford city centre, wanted to remain anonymous but said ‘sex sells’. But we are not gods; as mortals with one precarious life, we are conscious of when our time is being wasted.Indeed, fatal boredom is the film's true subject: the climax is Jeanne's murder of a client with a pair of scissors. But Thea fears that back in the city, he will lapse into his old, dissolute habits and fall into scandal, or drink himself to death. Over three hours later, I gave up and decided to wait for my husband to come home and fix it instead. Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, in Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, translated by Una Ellis-Fermor (London: Penguin, 1961), 263.