Wilde was an Irishman who feared change. Lady Bracknell - I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. ... Why should there be one law for men, another for women?... We see this type of humour at work, for instance in Algernon's pontifications on marriage, Jack announces he has come to ask Gwendolyn to marry him; Algernon responds, "I thought you had come up for pleasure? ... Worthing's "Contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life-, reminds Lady Bracknell of the worst excesses of the French Revolution "and I presume you know what that unfortunate mov...

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In The Taming of the Shrew Bianca cannot marry until her elder sister finds a husband, and Katherine does not want to marry anyone. ... Unlike Katherine, who claimed she would marry Petruccio (Shr 2.I.260-268), Beatrice does not agree to marry Benedick. ... You crow too like a craven." ... Katherine does not seem as a woman who would write love sonnets to Petruccio, when Beatrice does write them to Benedick (Ado 5.IV.88-90). Beatrice is disgusted by Benedick's being a soldier "I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars?   ...

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Bennet's urge desire to know Mr. ... Bennet hardly knows anything about Mr. ... She does not concern about Bingley's personality at all. ... Bennet suggests us how we are often judge by our social statue before people really get to know us. ... When Lady Catherine asks Elizabeth to avoid the engagement with Darcy because of her belonging to the low social class would disgrace Darcy's social prestige if those two marry "Do you not consider that a connection with you, must disgrace him in the eye of everybody?" ...

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Candide's mother was not able to consider marrying a man because of love, but instead, she was forced to base her decisions on money matters and social standing. ... If there were no aristocratic system of government in Candide there would have been less awful deaths and the world would have seemed more peaceful, things would be more, as they should be. ... "You absolute ass, I rescued you from the galleys; I have paid for your freedom...." "You will never marry my sister while I am alive." Candide knows it shouldn't matter what social class you come from, you should be allowed ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She is left to believe only what her father tells her, even when he questions Hamlet's affection for her she responds "I do not know, my lord, what I should think.... Because of this submission, Ophelia does not know how to communicate with others. She is oppressed by every male she encounters in the play, this is particularly evident when Hamlet verbally attacks her for seemingly no reason: "Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them" (Shakespeare, 3.1.138). ... She is not able to be honest with Hamlet or her fa...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the face of Roderigo's urgent persuasions, Violenta claims to be "a maidwho knows the the true estimation of virtue" and counters his dramatic claims of death by simply stating, "You very eloquently tell me you shall die if I continue unkind; but I very plainly tell your Lordship, that I must perish if I prove otherwise: since I know it will be impossible for me to live after the loss of my honor" (146). ... Despite having done everything according to the stipulations of how proper virtuous women should behave, Violenta is left destitute by her husband, for although...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Mitch is desperate to find someone to marry as his mother is dying and without her, he would be alone and fears what he might do. ... But I'll be alone when she goes."15This shows how he is dreading the thought of being isolated and having nobody there to comfort or support him, like his mother does. ... "17"You know I didn't write a suicide notebecause I had no one to write it to.... Correspondingly, this type of insensitivity can be seen in All New People when Emma rejects Myron, and he decides to reveal her secret as he says, "Well, if you're not gonna tel...

• Word Count: 1885
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