If you know about preserves you know that preserves explode from lack of heat. ... She said: I must obey the ones who stand in power."" ... Why does she do it twice? ... This is symbolic of Ismene stepping forth to do what she should have done in the first place and consent to Antigone's proposal to help her bury her brother. ... It's symbolic in the way that she is marrying into death and marrying her brother Polynices in the afterworld. ...

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If a man wanted to marry another man's daughter he would have to get her father's permission and in some cases pay the father to marry his daughter. ... She wanted to learn, to be educated, and to find out who she really was. In one part of the play she said this piece to explain how she felt: "I should never get to know myself- I shall never learn to face reality- unless I stand alone. So I can't stay with you any longer." ... Women's struggle now is that if we can do the work that men can do then why not get paid the same wages as men do. ...

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Whilst she has been injured physically the portrait does not give the impression of someone who has been beaten in any way. ... When she was young she used her beauty to marry an older richer man who she knew would die before her. ... Having gained "maisterie" over her three older and weaker husbands who she married for wealth she then marries for love and attempts to gain "maisterie" over Jankin. ... She also says that she tells everything to her friend "Alison" whom knows her as well as she does this meant that anything Jankin said was common knowledge very quickly and this was why h...

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For a man would prefer to marry a woman who has not already been taken by another man. ... Doran's thoughts Once you are married you are done for (James Joyce 41). ... Additionally, he would feel guilty if Polly were to put an end to herself, as she mentioned. ... Mooney's intentions were to select who her daughter was to marry, caring very little for what the man felt. ... Meaning, a man who is easily influenced into having to marry her daughter, that of a person who is serious, not rakish or loud-voiced like the others (James Joyce 40). ...

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We are shown how they should and should no­t behave, as a daughter, wife, and widow. ... She is demure, quiet, respectful, and has many suitors, yet she is the one who uses her femininity to manipulate her tutors, and eventually elopes, potentially bringing great shame to her father. ... True, she is sharp with her tongue, and speaks out when perhaps convention tells her to be quiet, but she does her duty to her father and husband, agreeing to marry petruchio despite his eccentric behavior, and in so doing, allows her sister the chance to marry. ... It is important to note though, that she...

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Instead what she does is sleep with other men, and this is allowed to occur because her husband does nothing about it. ... When he asks Margot what she thought of it she responds "I hated it" for the obvious reason that she knew because of his newfound attitude he will leave her after the safari is over, she realizes this right after she says this he casually says "you know I don't think I"d ever be afraid of anything again" and by this he means the divorce he was so scared of getting early on in the story and his life. ... (Hemingway 61) Even Wilson figured that she shot him purposely ...

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Why do you American have only these morbid thoughts in your mind what does it matter how he died?"" ... So to avoid this she decided not to eat; "I saw what I had to do so I would not have to marry Arnold. ... Do I really think we should stop accounting for everything Or maybe we shouldn't have gotten married in the first place"" (179-180). ... One being her asking herself if she is asking if "Harold to support [her], being childish in not taking the appropriate actions to support herself rather than having someone else support her. ... And she thinks we should leave now and go have dinne...

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