Unrealistic Expectations

In an essay “I Want A Wife” written by Judy Brady, I liked how the author portrayed herself as a husband and listed all of the duties she would expect her wife to perform. Moreover, in the end she says, "My God, who wouldn't want a wife?" to summarize her message and purpose of the essay. On the other hand, I did not admire about how Brady used a sarcastic tone throughout her essay to exaggerate the desires a husband dreams of his wife.

Brady uses logos, pathos, and ethos to develop her argument and persuade women to stand up for themselves. Brady uses logos to argue that women are required to do too much by listing several roles of women. She also emphasizes the inequality of men and women and that the people’s overload of expectation to women should be stopped. She uses pathos when she says, “My god, who wouldn’t want a wife?” This quote is very emotional in support of the argument and it allows the readers to conclude that this is wrong. She says this to argue that women are treated less than women and wants readers to become angry and emotional in this topic. Lastly, Brady uses ethos in the first couple of paragraphs when she says, “I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a wife, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother.” She has a lot of knowledge and knows the roles of women very well.

I think this essay relates to Medea because they both contain the idea that men left all the work to the women. As Medea stayed to care for the children, Jason was busy finding another woman to marry. One distinct difference I noticed was that “I Want A Wife” was focused more on women, but “Medea” was focused on both men and women. Since Brady wrote her essay in a woman's perspective, she did not mention about the selfishness of women. However in “Medea,” Jason and Medea were both selfish because Jason left Medea to do all the work and Medea ended up killing her children.