From that example, we can vividly see that family and society already construct the ideas of the ideal men and women. ... In fact, family, as the smallest unit of society, plays the greatest role in shaping the image of the "ideal" men and women. ... Social construction shapes the image of the ideal men and women by placing them in different roles through different attitudes. As a result, these ideal views limit their options and make them bound to their "fate". ... However, this social construction is absolutely invalid to create the "ideal" men and women. ...

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In the 19th century women were expected to live in the home and be constrained to the affairs of the household and family (children, her husband). The average woman had no political influence she was dependant on her husband for nearly everything she needed or wanted to do. ... Often the ideals of femininity which were popularized by writers and poets drove women to change during this time. ... In fact the middle class glorified the ideal of domesticity. ... Some believe that it was the ideal of birthcontrol that played a key decision making role. ...

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In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. ... Mallard feels upon hearing of her husband's death through third person narration. ... Connected to their husbands, marriage became prison to many women; the only means of breaking free from these bonds was the death of a husband. ... While sitting downstairs, Mrs.Mallard grieves over the loss of her husband, and over her freedom. ... Mallard allows her emotions over her husband's death to flow freely. ...

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When her husband, Collatinus, and the royal princes find Lucretia up late spinning wool, they all agree that she is superior to other wives. ... The imagery used does not describe the defiling of Lucretia, but the invasion of her husband's home. ... Lucretia wants her husband to know that she is pure at heart. ... The ideal Roman woman put her house and family before herself. ... Through Lucretia, Livy created an ideal that women, as a member of the family who has no say in politics, should dedicate their time to upholding their family name. ...

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She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. ... Through Torvald's shallow' ideals of women working and unappeasable pride, which are repellent to the audience, he criticises the social ideal of the economically dominant male of that era. ... Through Nora's epiphany and intellectual liberation, Ibsen represents the long-ignored ...

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Along with all of these strong feminist messages also come out anti-feminism ideals about keeping women in a certain role, causing a lengthy and intelligent debate upon what Chaucer really meant. ... All of the above quotations and examples appear to show the Wife of Bath as a great and leading woman with ideas and ideals that came well after her time. ... The Wife goes on to tell about her fourth husband. ... For example speaking of her fifth husband: "God grant his soul may never get to Hell! ... Her fifth husband is a great example of showing how she no longer is able to control men. ...

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Her father's suggestion that her existence should be sleep and housework display the sexist ideal that a higher education is wasted on a woman. ... She is already burdened with "two kids and a husband who left (p.84)." And so she is left to take care of them herself because of her on and off husband. ... The emotional and physical abuse Minerva suffers at the hands of the husband who continually leaves and returns is a problem which both Minerva and Esperanza do not know how to solve. ...

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The play revolves around two characters, Nora and her husband Torvald. ... With his symbolic writing and bold attack on the conservative ideals of his time, he served as the stepping stone for women of today. ... Torvald proves himself a petty philistine, a bully and a coward, as so many good husbands when they throw off their respectable cloaks. ...

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Within these two television shows you can see how mainstream ideals and masculine and feminine personalities have changed but the general principles are the same. ... Finally we can compare their relationship with their husbands and vise-a-versa. ... The biggest comparison that we can make is within the husbands and wives relationship. Darren and Samantha show the "old fashioned" view of a husband and wife. ... You can see the same principles of life carried out through the decades, but the mainstream ideals of masculine and feminine personalities have cha...

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She becomes an idol, and must live up to her husband's impossible standards in order to gain his love. ... A woman is expected to be loyal to her husband; however; "fidelity does not belong to the essence of his love."" ... us husband may lose more of her self-worth. ... They realize that, in attaining a man's love, they must effectively disown their own true selves in order to live up to his ideal standards. ... Also, in attempting to escape being privately owned by their husbands, independent women instead become, in a sense, public property. ...

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" she is put forth as a feminist, her views evidence of Chaucer's feminist sensibilities- (Fleming) The Wife of Bath is a feminist; she revolts against the traditional role of women by gaining complete control of her husbands, as seen in her prologue. ... The tale illustrates that the ideal marriage is one with the women having all control. ... The husband is a chauvinist who has complete control over his submissive wife. ...

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She feels that when she is with her husband, who seems not to understand her "gift- as a planter. ... But her husband does not appreciate her flowers so much since he says, "I wish you'd work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big."" ... - which could be compared with what her husband says, "Some of those yellow chrysanthemums you had this year were ten inches across."" ... If she is an ideal female, she should not have yell. Even her husband said she changed again. ...

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At this time women were supposed to find happiness in serving their husbands and also taking care of the children. The setting was in the society of Grand Isle, and it had many expectations on its women that are belong to their husband and also suppose to be subordinate to their children, too. In Edna's society, there were lots of "mother-women," who "idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it to a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals". ... Mademoiselle Ratignolle was the ideal Grand Isle woman, a home-loving mother and a good wife; however, Mademoi...

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Finally, Imoinda's heartrending death is enacted by her husband as part of his plan to take revenge on the white men who betrayed him. ... As a "heroic wife, " she wholeheartedly obeys her husband, "for wives have a respect for their husbands equal to what any other people pay a deity " (54). In this act, therefore, Imoinda embodies the ideal wife and the pinnacle of femininity "more willing to die by the hand of her husband than to have her virtue threatened by strangers. ...

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It requires time to abandon long-held traditions and attitudes and adopt more unifying and equal ideals. ... They were taught to respect and obey their fathers first, then their husbands and finally their sons (Shinotsuka 1989). ...

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Brent hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, upper class and later middle class women: pious, pure, submissive, and delicate. ... Flint, who feels self-pity for her husband's licentiousness, but no empathy for the author, her husband's victim. ... Sands as a lover, Jacobs goes against the ideal image of womanhood and shows independence. ... The male narrator could write his tale as reclamation of his manhood, but under the terms of white society's ideals of sexual ignorance for women Brent cannot claim "true" womanhood. ...

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Leonato even tells her "By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue" (2.1.16-17). Beatrice knows that she is happy without a husband and tells Leonato that she refuses to get married "till God make men of some other metal than earth" (2.1.59-60): This is an extremely bold statement for a women in this time period. ... Many Shakespearian women are quiet and go along with whatever their husbands want, but not Beatrice. ... Shakespeare put feminist ideals into Beatrice's character, showing her to be more likable and also takin...

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Margot Macomber uses aggression and pride to control her husband, but she is forced to accept her role a woman as the story progresses. Margot mainly uses aggressive behavior to control her husband, Francis Macomber, in her relationship. ... She shows the "correct" behavior of feeling shame on the behalf of her husband, but we quickly see that that is not who she truly is. ... Wilson represents Hemingway's ideal male, Margot is attracted to him as he is the only character in-story to have more power than her. ... Margot knows she's trapped with Francis, and while Francis i...

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Manley is, very clearly, refuting the accepted ideals of feminine passivity and the defenseless position in which a blind execution of such ideals leaves women. ... Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. ... To add to her troubles, her husband and lawful master, growing increasingly weary of his wife and easily influenced by the...

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To what extent do Katherina and Bianca conform to the ideal of women and marriage in Shakespeare as time? ... 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. ... In it, she mirrors the lord as original speech as to the dutiful behavior of a wife, claiming Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign she emplores her fellow wives to behave just as c...

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The wife at this point frequently feels offended by her husband's freedom to go on with his life. Also the husband feels lonely as his work carries him farther from the emotional center of the family. ... Working husbands and wives can invest heavily in their own jobs, putting in long hours, while their spouses have, at most, full-time or even reduced-hour work involvements. ... When husbands are heavily invested in their jobs and their wives are not, we see a modified form of the traditional breadwinner/homemaker model . ... The idea of a man going off to work for 10-11 hours a day, w...

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Even though Brady is being ironic, I believe she describes the ideal wife a man dreams of. ... Brady describes a wife as the person who stays home and takes care of everything so when the husband comes home everything is put in its place. ... A wife should never complain about her duties and should always be there and support the husband. ... The wife should also understand her husband if he feels depressed and try to make him feel better if needed. ... Toward the end, Brady says that a wife should understand if the husband "wants the liberty to replace the present wife with another one" (...

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Advertising, being one of the most powerful and influential means ever, has encouraged us to mould ourselves into this ideal vision of how men and women should exist in society. ... However, in our modern world today, these ideals are no longer essential in gaining acceptance into society and have altered significantly but they still may be prevalent. ... Despite the facts that over the past decade, an increasing amount of house husbands have been emerging and more and more women have either been stepping away from housework altogether or combining it with a career, they still stand as the pre...

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A man's position in this world is to fit the role of a husband and a father by providing a secure, stable and comfortable home for his family. ... In her essay, Sandra wrote about how her father had wanted her to find a great husband and have children. ... Parents, being the most influential and looked upon role models, should teach their children to be happy and chase their dreams, not to be caught in the ideals of society. ...

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What she wants is to discover what is hidden in "the other room," – the instrument her husband is using to create "paroxysms" on his patients. ... " As much as we might like to think that these views have changed, Ruhl further the Woman Question by forcing us to question whether these ideals have truly changed since the roles of the Old Order. ... Givings' failed attempts to feel like the woman she is supposed to be are aggravated by her wishes to feel loved by her husband. ... Catherine writes her name in the snow and makes angels in it, but her husband fai...

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