... a family matter not a private affair between two individuals. They believed in preserving and protecting the basic family unit. Marriage was a duty. Arranged marriages require a more durable foundation than romantic love and wisdom is more important then passion when choosing a partner. The true purpose of marriage was a principle rather than the self-interest of the couple, and emotional satisfaction was not ... are regarded as important to the security of the family in India, the community demands their continuance even though these customs cost so much for some families. Traditional ...

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... rates in college students attributed to "conflict-separation-rejection," students in LDRs experienced "role confusion," and that high levels of depression were a response to separation. Article 2 "College Students" Ended Love Relationships: Attachment Style and Emotion" Pistole, M. Carole. January/February 1995. This article was based on a study done on college students who had ended an important ... love relationship in the preceding 12 months. The study focused on the development of four styles of "attachment -organization in relationships": secure, preoccupied, fearful-avoidant, and ...

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... she has some characteristics of both periods: rationalism (neoclassical) and love and passion (romanticism). Personal emotions are more important. This two concepts appears onces and again. EVELYN.- The description of a dream, like later on , the Romantic writers will do. The final message is that you can never ... was a defender of social values, he was a very neoclassical man. Jane Austen was affected by another source opposite to Johnson pre-romantic writer William Cowper. He represented feelings, emotions, expontanety, freedom. Johnson thought that you must read in order to adquire c...

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... catalyst of her mental, emotional and sexual awakening. The relationship is regarded as within the Creole social convention of an adoring young man expressing his love for a married woman, who remains faithful and chaste. The relationship, however, strays off its set parameters as it effectively unleashed a wide ... by the generosity of men. The archetype feminist rebel, Edna Pontellier, even defies the traditional definition of a Victorian woman within the context of a romantic relationship. Rebuffing the usual feminine Victorian qualities of being coy in the presence of a male, Edna is...

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... lightly shows the limitations and unhappiness produced by such a way of life. The play mocks this earnestness; it is the characters who do not act earnestly who are rewarded with love, and who are proven not to have been acting dishonestly at all. With this, The Importance of Being Earnest makes a tentative further claim: that perhaps Algernon, Jack, Cecily, and Gwendolyn ... to marry him; Algernon responds, "I thought you had come up for pleasure? I call that business." He goes on to say, "I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there i...

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... . 11 In the 19th cent. the history of the nation state became the dominant form of history writing. Among the more prominent romantic national historians were Thomas B. Macaulay in England, and Jules Michelet in France. In the United States, romantic historians, such as George Bancroft, William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry ... to Protestantism. Actually, he became a skeptic and later greatly offended the pious by his famous chapters of historical criticism of Christianity in his great work. In Lausanne he fe...

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... "Wuthering Heights" "Wuthering Heights" is a famous works written by one of the greatest British poets and novelists ------ Emily Bronte who exerted her utmost effort to finish this works. It is a Romantic novel, which has been discussed and investigated by the scholars all over the world. Besides its symphonic frame and its implicit narrative method, another important reason for this novel being ... and Thrushcross Grange, but also the choice between ideal and reality, the choice between nature and civilization. Finally, the latter defeated the former. Catherine deserted her instinctive ...

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... be punished. Steinbeck`s social philosophy had three roots: 1. Emerson's faith in the common man and his Protestant self reliance, 2. Whitman`s religion of the love of all man and his mass democracy 3. the philosophy of pragmatism and its emphasis on effective action we can add a fourth source to the first three ... was concerned with democracy, and looked upon agrarianism as a way of life that would enable us to realize the full potentialities of the creed. The love of earth plays a very important role in the novel. Steinbeck had dealt with this theme of man`s relationship to the land ea...

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... the responsibilities of the working years. Marriage Planning Decisions about marriage are largely cooperative decisions shared by the joint family at large. Whether the marriage is arranged or it's through love, the family plays an important role in the decision; if they disapprove the couple may decide against the marriage, recognizing the interdependence of the family members. Both men and women ... past, a woman's relationship with her husband is much more important than her relationship with any other relative. Most young people, influenced by the west, want to have a more companion...

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... ) Daisy's reactions justify Gatsby's beliefs. "'I've never met so many celebrities!' Daisy exclaimed." (Fitzgerald 111) She is dutifully impressed with his mansion: "'That huge place over there?' she cried pointing 'I love it '" (Fitzgerald 95-96) Gatsby brags to Daisy about his wardrobe: "I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of ... that of a turbaned 'character'- (Fitzgerald 70) When asked by the narrator about his Midwest origins, "Gatsby ignorantly, but elegantly, tells him San Francisco, geography losing to the pretension...

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... "The Lies That Bind," composed by P. Thaler, is Thaler's justification of why there is a necessity to lie in a relationship. Thaler states "... a lie gives us the chance to be introspective about love (relationships) in a way that truth can't."(c), this idea that we question our feelings is contradictory to the ideal of a relationship being honest. Could relationships also be built on lies ... ? "Love, ..., meant complete acceptance of wrong doings, disappointments, hurts, character flaws, and selfishness."(c) The listing brings upon questions of whether the relationship is even a commun...

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... , groans, dreams almost", a connection with nature, "She was drawn to nature as she would have not been in different circumstances; she depended upon it for sustenance", and a strong belief in romantic virtues such as dreams and hope, "she depended on legend for hope. It was Ellen Gluyas's hope that she might eventually be sent a god [in a hopeful dream of hers] she ... took her escort as a lover, and the two died of love." This sense of solitary reflection upon all things in life that are divine, contrasts greatly to the social system of the Roxburgh family in Birdlip. As a result, duri...

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... . Women were extremely restricted in the 19th Century. Maggie Tulliver shows this in the Novel of Mill on the floss. Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. Maggie is often read as Eliot's critique of the opportunities available to women in 19th century. However, these readings tend to be ... ...

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... . Women were extremely restricted in the 19th Century. Maggie Tulliver shows this in the Novel of Mill on the floss. Maggie is a romantic character and a dutiful daughter and sister she is devoted, tender and longing to give and receive love. Maggie is often read as Eliot's critique of the opportunities available to women in 19th century. However, these readings tend to be ... ...

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... suitor, yet Isabel's happiness seems to rely on the necessity of her staying single. In the early part of the novel, Ralph seems troubled by whether he is actually in love, as is portrayed in the scene by his Father's deathbed. He appears therefore, a very unusual character, as the reader both wishes him to be with Isabel, yet also to not ... , by the conclusion, she has capitulated to the malevolence of the European social norms, and it seems a harsher existence than even death. In a sense, which could be perceived as very romantic, Ralph's death appears to coincide with something that ...

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