It was expected of women to follow through with their assumed roles and position in society as well as in their family. ... Nature, in these respects, may safely be left to herself; let women only acquire knowledge and humanity, and love will teach them modesty." ... It gives women a chance to grow as a person and then, as a result, potentially share the good works with the family. ... Once women have reason and can handle certain feelings of love and the emotions that carry along with that, they will be able to truly love someone and be the wife that the husband needs. ... The two that rea...

• Word Count: 2740
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Next to love for an individual, there is work, studies, hobbies, interests, relations with family and friends, dreams and expectations, future, history and past which defines a person. ... Other family members have to serve him. ... Not her individual dreams or expectations count but her loyalty to the male and, thus, the family. ... Marrying implied also living within the family-in-law and the provision of a dowry. ... First within the family were children are raised to function in well-defined roles. ...

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In an argument over a hat, Kate demands, "Love me or love me not, I like the cap, / And it I will have, or I will have none" (4.3, 84-85). ... This strong will is changed around, however, when Beatrice "overhears" Hero and Ursula talking about Benedick's love for her. ... However, Beatrice continues to mask her desires for Benedick, and uses his love for her to get her way. She persuades Benedick to kill Claudio, asking him to, "use it (his hand) for my love some other way than / swearing by it" (4.1, 325-326). ... Thompson did a great job portraying Beatrice's over confident p...

• Word Count: 2533
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. ... Throughout his quest for achievement he tries to gain approval from his family by acting in a manner that does not suit his personality. His family shuns him and treats him as an outcast; this rejection from his family hampers Claude in his quest for sexual fulfillment. ... The cherry tree incident with Claude and his family left him emotionally disturbed. ... Claude takes a liking to the soldier because he can relate to the way the soldier walks around in the story in pain, ...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A woman's own expectations were meek because neither her family nor society expected her to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. ... The male had absolute control over his family. ... Edna did not love him but was initially flattered by his love and devotion. As an early sign of rebellion against tradition, Edna chose to marry him against the will of her family. ...

• Word Count: 3206
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The people of the Philippines are brought up very religiously and value the concept of family. Since family is important in the Philippines, the family itself is involved in the dating and marriage procedure. ... In a rural community, the man may serenade his love beneath her bedroom window. ... In some rural areas, the bride's family may offer a large dowry to the groom. ... culture may seem odd to the American ideal of the bride's family paying for the wedding. ...

• Word Count: 2701
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first part is the story about Leonte's jealousy which brings the destruction to his royal family. ... The love between Florizel and Perdita, the reunification of Leontes with his lost daughter and wife bring to the play a perfect ending. ... All the persons representing love and kindness to him disappear one by one from the play. ... He loves his child, Florizel. ... Here we read a balance in their true love. ...

• Word Count: 2824
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"If I were a man, nothing's gonna stop me " As the England industrial atmosphere came, in the man-centered family, her husband treated her sadistically, in order to live, Mrs. ... So even her love to Paul may request the permission of the God: "O'Lord, let me not love Paul Morel. Keep me from loving him, if I ought not to love him ". ... Miriam consciously built their intimate relationship on imagination, namely spirit on love, not flesh on love. ... Morel's love. ...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He sees her loss of virginity as a loss of honour for the entire family, saying, "Hence from her, let her die" (IV.i.153), which means he'd rather she die than live with the shame of being unchaste. ... Desdemona is often compared to Hero from Much Ado About Nothing, but they differ in that Hero is subservient to men because she is weak, while Desdemona is a strong character whose submission is out of love for Othello. ... She is an honourable wife and accepts Othello's choice to kill her, saying, "[My sins] are loves I bear to you" (V.ii.40) - her only sins were ...

• Word Count: 4511
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. ... The reader gets an intimate look at the human suffering of an alcoholic's family and the refusal of those in power to halt the molestation and beatings. ... The unacceptable claim "a man is king in his own castle" gives license to men like Linda McCarriston's father to heap abuse and violence on his family. ... The...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He considers love to be "merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.... He is a lady's man, and therefore cannot be concerned with such things as true love. Even Othello, the one character who truly loves his wife, mistreats Desdemona. ... He states to Iago "Alas, poor rogue, I think i' faith she loves me." (4.1.128) Cassio essentially uses Bianca's love to his own means. ...

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The gender category woman (that is, the so-called "feminine" gender automatically assigned to members of the female sex) carries with it certain expectations about how to act, what to do, who to love and so on: Women are generally expected to be more passive, submissive and dependent than men. ... Women are expected to love and marry a man and to become mothers. ... Men are expected to love and marry a woman and to become fathers. ... But the essential fact is that our gender roles are taught to each of us, and are rigidly enforced, through families and friends, educational institutions, t...

• Word Count: 3294
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

Chopin slowly offers the answer by hinting that Edna is stuck in a marriage and family that binds her to a place where she does not want to be. ... Their marriage is not based on love. ... Robert's exit is also important because Edna is losing a love. Her romantic journey had brought back Edna's child heart which is full of love and desire. ... He is very materialistic and loves to flaunt his wealth. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

They bartered with each other for goods and services, creating an off-the-books economy entirely run by women. " (Roberts (1), p.12) Wives were the foundations that made families work. ... "They did what all women who went before them and came after them did when it came to raising children and running households, but they were assigned by history to play other roles as well. " (Roberts (1), p.15) Eliza Lucas Pinckney, at the age of sixteen was left in charge of her families three plantations in South Carolina. ... She was born into a family of planters, and was one of seven children. ... The...

• Word Count: 3378
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

She feels that she can never compare favorably to Rebecca, who was beautiful, talented, and brilliant--or so everyone says--and soon she feels that Maxim is still in love with his dead wife. ... Upon seeing the heroine, Maxim is horrified, and the heroine becomes convinced that he will never love her, that he is still devoted to Rebecca. ... Rebecca - In life, Rebecca was the beautiful, much-loved, accomplished wife of Maxim de Winter, and the mistress of Manderley. ...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

"Films became a major force of socialization, providing role models and instruction in dress and fashion, in courtship and love, and in marriage and career,"" (Kellner, 1998: 354-5). Clairee helps Ouiser learn to once again love and to be loved and Truvy helps Annelle build much-needed self-confidence and dress to fit in with the community. ...

• Word Count: 2628
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Given the elaborate details that accompany so much of Indian taste, be it food or religious devotion, popular art or the convolutions of family filiality, the girl is trained to exactly adhere to minutia. ... Only after the children are raised and married off does a woman begin to enjoy the fruits of love " from the children, now parents themselves, who gratefully realize what she gave them, and from a husband whose years if not his attitudes force him into co-dependence as his body gets frail and tired. ...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

• Word Count: 3387
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I believe he read this because the gender role has been reversed and he was not the elder man marring a younger wife who is less experienced then he; he was not the provider of the wealth in the family. ...

• Word Count: 2959
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography