... , must be in want of a wife." A blunt restatement of this sentence would read, " it is an acknowledged truth in our particular society that a single woman without a fortune must need a husband who has one." .It is Mark Shorer who points out that this theme, so apparent in the story ... fortune, four or five thousand a year. What a find thing for our girls! This is the beginning of the novel. To those husband-hunting ladies, Mr.Bingley is an abstract signal. The most important thing is that he has "a good fortune". So we can say, "a single man in possession of ... 's own wishful thinking...

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... clothing. In other words, everybody should be able to get sufficient work to enable him to make the two ends meet. And this ideal can be universally realized only if the means of production of the elementary necessaries of life remain in the control of the masses. These ... treat her differently than I used to do, and so I restored to her all her rights by dispossessing myself of all my so-called rights as her husband." These two quotes from Gandhi I feel really show the general stereotype that woman have today. Most people feel that a woman's place is in the ... the two, for it is eve...

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... and Paulina because he can not endure the situation where his male power is threatened by women. Under the superficial story of adultery and husband's jealousy, we conclude it is about conflict between men and women. What Shakespeare wants to talk is how to build up the real harmony ... Hermione is unrealistic perfection. This kind of woman will not live in the real society. That is why she is designed to be an icon. She represents the ideal feminine image and acts as a model as the possible harmonious coexistence between man and woman. Hermiones's symbolization is inherited by Perdita i...

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... can go out, and find A cure for tediousness. We wives are forced to look To one man only. (232-248) Her bitter experiences as the ill-fated wife to an unfaithful husband in a foreign land have taught her to be sceptical of all men. She possesses a strictly independent approach towards the female situation in the Greek society, which brings her quite close ... -6) He harbours three complaints against her. First, he calls her clever. It is not acceptable to Greeks that women should be intelligent. An intelligent woman may not be subservient to the whims and desires of her husband. Therefor...

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... with a picture of a woman as the lady-like žangel in the house, an ideal female preoccupied with her natural, as it was then believed, duties of a wife and a mother.On the other hand, there is an image of ž the fallen woman, a desperate prostitute and yet sexually passive being. In ... angel in the house in other respects as well. She is a pretty and a charming girl whose only worries evolve around her looks, a future husband and domestic matters such as a choice of furniture to her new,future, house. The Victorian wives were naturally supposed to master the management of the ... o...

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... Kalish). Thus, more time is left for other pursuits. A woman who enters her first marriage at an older age is less likely to exchange dependence on her parents for dependence on a husband (Unger & Crawford, 1992). Elder (1974) found that women who married later were more likely ... woman's decision to marry. "The ever increasing opportunities for women to work outside the home make her less and less dependent, economically, upon a husband" (Casler, 1974, p. 30). Late marrying women indicated that careers took relative precedence over marriage during the period of their lives when their "...

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... home and learnt Greek and Latin literature, playing the lyre, dancing and singing. "She was fortunate in her birth, good looks, above all in her husband and children; well read in Greek Latin, she could play the lyre and dance more elegantly than a virtuous woman needs to" (Sallust in his speech ... be for love, it would be more of a business deal and would have been arranged. For a woman, marriage gained her an extended family and the security that came with this; she would also gain her husband's social status. In marriage the woman was passed, from the control of her father, to the con...

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... that a woman's life and therefore her future is based on whether she looks pretty or not. This seems shallow and superficial. We all know that in an ideal world it's the heart that counts' but what many of us don't realize is that, small-minded or not, it's the way society is. But ... and machinery; it is a mechanical kind of word. It implies that women are machines that have no emotions (except devotion to their master', their husband) and that they are there to be useful, as most machines are. The above quotation shows how submissive and forgiving society taught women to be. ... ev...

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... the biological difference, they begin to subconsciously partake in a phenomenon known as the gender-schema theory. Basically children learn to first decide if an object, activity, or behavior is female or male, then use the information gathered to decide whether or not they should learn more about it ... for their overly active hormones than to make them pay for their sins literally? But instead of creating a successful profession, prostitution has turned into an illegal form employment. Critics argue that prostitution works to suppress women and their roles in society, while it enables...

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... girl is worth her weight in gold. (Aside) Millinette, how do you say armchair in French? Millinette: Fauteuil, Madame. Mrs. Tiffany: Fo-tool! That has a foreign-an out-of-the-wayish sound that is perfectly charming-and so genteel! There is something about our American words decidedly vulgar. Fowtool! How refined. Fowtool! Arm-chair! What a ... reputation! There is Mrs. Adolphus Dashaway-she gave the most splendid fete of the season-and I hear on very good authority that her husband has not paid his baker's bill in three months. Then there was Mrs. Honeywood- Mr. Tiffany: Gave a ball that ...

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