The Ideal of Marriage In today's society most marriages have different perspectives of an ideal marriage. ... In "The Wife's of Bath's Tale it suggest that a ideal marriage should be that the wife should have total master of her husband. In "Franklin's Tale an ideal marriage is the husband and wife should be faithful and honest to each other. These two tales suggest two different aspects of an ideal marriage. ... In this tale the wife explains how she sees how an ideal marriage should be. ...

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Madame Ratignolle is an example of this ideal motherly figure that devoted her life to her children. ... Society believes that a husband and wife should be a cooperative and loving couple. ... Society during Edna's times believed that ideal women were ones who "idolized their children, worshiped their husbands and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals" (10). Edna, however, did not follow these standards for the ideal woman. She is not an ideal mother, nor an ideal wife, and she has desires for other men. ...

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Madame Ratignolle is an example of this ideal motherly figure that devoted her life to her children. ... Society believes that a husband and wife should be a cooperative and loving couple. ... Society during Edna's times believed that ideal women were ones who "idolized their children, worshiped their husbands and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals" (10). Edna, however, did not follow these standards for the ideal woman. She is not an ideal mother, nor an ideal wife, and she has desires for other men. ...

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This image of virtuous goddesses devoted to their husbands is the ideal image of Indian womanhood and it has persisted in culture and literature over the years. The Hindu goddesses still exist as powerful cultural ideals of women in South Asia. ... Even woman in life and literature herself voluntarily surrendered to the ideal of self-sacrifice. ... Man's wants are many and cannot always be fulfilled and this acceptance of everything makes her the ideal sufferer. ... Rukmani works hard and is devoted to her gentle husband. ...

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And by proving her husband is always at fault, the Wife maintains her power. ... According to the Wife, her husband "shall be both my debtor and my slave"(Chaucer,122). ... But she does realize "that chastity is the ideal state. But it is not her ideal"(Chute,94). It's not her ideal due to the fact that she "despises virginity"(Chute,94). ...

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Women in the Seneca tribe were often faced with harsh trials of life, including troubled pregnancies, short marriages with often absent husbands, and rough phases to face with their young children. ... She was not able to sit back and relax while her husband looked after her. Mary's husband was off at war while Mary was pregnant. ... When a woman's husband went off to fight there was a small possibly that he would not return. ... The European men came from a society were a woman's ideal job was only that of leisure, and here they see that women skin the animals that their hus...

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In my opinion the ideal woman is a combination of both Adele and Edna. ... During the 19th century women were looked at as attributes to their husbands. ... Edna is distance from her children and disagreeable to her husband. ... This act outrages her community and embarrasses her husband. ... The first woman, Adele Ratignolle, is a prime example of the ideal mother-woman. ...

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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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The narrator describes him as having four main qualities: his love of ideals, his impressive military career, his meek, gentle manor, and finally, his dress. ... Not only has she seen many lands, she has lived with five husbands. ... She gained control over all her husbands so they won't make use of her. ... She does not seek an equal partnership with a husband. ... His story is a romance that contains a sense of humor and courage, all the things described as ideals he held. ...

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Brady states in a satirical way, everything a housewife does for her husband, indirectly explaining the housewife's plight and the husband's superior position in the household. ... Brady consistently narrates the expectations she has from the wife she would like to have such as "working to support the husband while in school, attend children's needs, and keep appointments for children with doctors as well as school activities". ... Whereas Brady satirically fantasizes of the wife she wants, she portrays the ideal expectations of men in the society. ... She expresses,...

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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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English audiences in the Renaissance period would have been concerned with ideals of married life. ... Throughout the play, using her husband as a dominating force, Shakespeare demonstrates the transformation of one woman into the ideal Renaissance wife. ... To further strengthen the argument against Kate is that Hortensio is looking for a husband for Kate, as he wants to marry her younger sister Bianca. ... Even though Hortensio wants Kate to find a husband, he blatantly describes her flaws. ... In the taming process, Petruchio uses a variety of ways to turn Kate into the supposed ideal wife...

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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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She hides her desire to write or do anything creative because as her husband claims, it would worsen her case. ... She seems bothered and confused with the methods which her husband, John, has been using to try and cure her. ... However, she is constantly concerned about her husband finding out that she has written a word. ... A marriage like this one is far from an ideal one. The narrator finds herself hiding her feelings as well as her actions from her husband. ...

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Shakespeare's depiction of each simultaneously establishes cultural ideals of women and challenges the justice of them. ... Her obedience to Othello's commands was the accepted act of wives during the time period, and any actions against the husband were viewed as wrong. ... Emilia's actions toward her husband and comments at Desdemona's actions show her active role in the play. ...

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My dealing with different ideals and problems within a marriage will be illustrated with examples from the text. ... It is not appropriate for the daughter to choose whoever she likes for her husband, which she- if she wants a happy marriage- is not very likely to do. I will discuss the reasons for the careful choice of a proper husband below. ... The husband is meant to support his wife, since he is the one with a profession and she is not (something that will be discussed further down). ... One way for a husband to divorce his wife would be on grounds of sexual infidelity on the wife...

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Edna's character was slowly awakened to being pulled in four archetypical directions: these archetypes include the marriage of the work-orientated and "bread-winning" husband and the ideal mother, the outcast "quasi-intellectual" feminist, the high-class society, and the true love. ... This disregard of equality mirrors the prevailing ideals that shined through in this time period. ... He also feels the lack of an almost worship of him that many woman at the time were virtually required to engage in, the providing husband wants to feel high and mighty. ... This would not be the first c...

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Moll wasn't born into the most ideal of circumstances and her life shows this through her experiences she lives through. ... (Defoe 55) Moll illustrated how through her future husband amplifying the negative nature of her life that she was forced to see the positive aspects of marrying Robin, the younger brother. ... There is a true paradox when the man that previously paid for her sexual services is now assuring that her husband believes he is taking a virgin to bed. ... Moll married the younger brother in hopes of a better life and a promising future, but after five years of marriage, h...

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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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Christina Rossetti's poem, "A Rose Has Thorns As Well As Honey," does not fail to provoke an interpretation of the ideal woman as each flower she introduces to the reader represents a type of woman. ... As the poem continues, we find that all ten flowers preceding the holly fall short of being the ideal woman for these various reasons. ... Honesty implies a woman who will speak her mind, even when her husband may not like what she has to say or feels pricked by her words. ...

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The Knight is frequently named as one of the "ideal" pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury. ... The theme of the Wife of Bath's Tale is thus not female equality in marriage, but rather the power struggles between husband and wife. ... The old woman told him that women desire to have the sovereignty and to rule over their husbands. ...

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George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

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