Tag: fatherhood
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Discovering a New Side of My Father: A Journey of Knowledge and Understanding
During the summers of the narrator’s youth, their father was still alive. At eight o’clock, they would make the trip to Hale’s Goods, and by nine o’clock, they would settle under the long shade of the oak trees to read the Times. Smoke would rise above them, resembling a slow, intent fire. One day, while…
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Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and the Importance of Faithful Masculinity
Anne Brontë’s novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, focuses on toxic masculinity. Although the book has its flaws, critics found it oddly brutal and doubted whether it was true to life. However, Brontë insisted that it was in a preface to the second edition. The central character, Arthur Huntingdon, is a cad who treats his…