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. ...

• Word Count: 3535
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In Search for Independence and Self-Fulfillment 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. ... She developed her feminist ideals in her novels, short stories and nonfiction books such as Women and Economics. ... John, the narrator's husband, never takes her seriously. ... Still, she manages to disobey her husband and write her journal without him knowing it. ... Her husband, Mr. ...

• Word Count: 2531
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

For a woman, however, her honour simply meant her chastity and devotion to her husband. ... But here's my husband" (I.iii.184). ... Emilia puts her loyalty to her mistress and knowledge of her innocence before her duty to her husband. She subscribes to the male Elizabethan ideal of honour rather than doing what is expected of her as a woman. The refusal to submit to the male ideal of female honour can also be found in the character of Beatrice. ...

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

She is knowledgeable to the ways of a soldier, yet only believes a portion of what her husband tells her. ... She can't believe women cheat on their husbands, and asks Emilia if she would cheat on Iago. ... If women don't receive respect and fidelity from their husbands, they aren't required to be obedient and faithful. ... Maybe he is a cheating husband. ... Despite the Chivalric Code during the Middle Ages and the ideal of the Courtier during the Renaissance, there was no real societal consequence for husbands that mistreated their wives. ...

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It seems that the wounds that the author are referring to is the mourning of her first husband and her current state as a widow. ... In addition, there is much in the Qur'an that discusses the importance of a woman providing sex for her husband, "Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth, when or how you will (2:223)-(___). ... It seems that during the controversy of the affair, very misogynistic ideals are displayed and that the situation represents an excellent example of hegemonic suspicion. ... Following the affair and divorce of Hafsa and Muhammad, the intervening of the a...

• Word Count: 3804
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Within ten days, the perpetrator was identified as Shane Stant, an amateur hit man hired by competing skater Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, and ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly. ... The perceived contrast between athleticism and femininity places women athletes in a double-bind; they cannot meet both the ideals of femininity and the norms of sport. ... To be competitive on ice and off in the competition for commericial endorsements, women figure skaters (still officially referred to as "Ladies" under U.S. and ISU rules) must meet popular ideals of feminine beauty (Feder, 1994). ... Bu...

• Word Count: 2976
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary's killing of her husband is perhaps the ultimate betrayal. ... Identity In the beginning of the story, Mary is seen as a middle class ideal of a young mid-twentieth-century housewife, maintaining a tidy home and catering to her husband; pouring drinks when the man finishes his day. ... The pregnant Mary Malone is waiting at home for her husband Patrick to return from work. ... Cold hearted - She killed her husband with no remorse. ... Manipulative - creating an alibi to cover hers husband's murder. ...

• Word Count: 2792
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

A gentle but witty satire of courtship an marriage, tells the story of how the young ladies choose their husbands. ... From the viewpoint of Austen, Elizabethe's marriage, who finally marries Darcy, as well as Jane-Bingley's, composing money and live, is the ideal marriage people should after. ... This process went both ways: a beautiful woman might be able to snag a rich husband, or a charring and handsome man could woo a rich young girl. ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

I would try to arrive at the hospital within an hour of the laboring woman and her husband to ensure she would have continuous support. ... For every birth I attended, the mother's husband was a major part of the action. ... The women generally would not respond to these comments with exception of the commands when they came from a nurse or other support person other than her husband. ... In one instance the laboring woman was crying out, "oh god, oh god..." her husband said, "honey, why don't you try asking another deity for help?" ... Nurse Nussbaum was trying to usher everyone out...

• Word Count: 2778
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Once the female agrees to carry the couple's child and give it to them once it is conceived, the surrogate is inseminated with the husband's sperm, usually by means of artificial insemination. ... Given the description, one would think surrogate motherhood was an ideal solution for a couple that wanted to have a child but was unable to conceive naturally. ... In ideal terms, the "normal" family would consist of a mother, a father, and children that were naturally conceived and raised by both biological parents. ...

• Word Count: 3494
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Deborah and her husband lived on a well-traveled road between the towns of Ramah and Bethel. ... Thus Rachel, believing her father would deny her husband legal share in his estate, took the Teraphim. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The protagonist Celie is diminished and isolated by the men in her lives, first by her father and later by her husband, Mr.________. ... The ideal role of a man or the qualities of a 'real' man would be defined by a man having a well paid job and him driving a Cadillac, and any man lacking these qualities is less of a man. ... The term "patriarchy" can be defined as "the rule of the father, including the rule of older men over younger men and of fathers over daughters, as well as husbands over wives....

• Word Count: 3403
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Mooney has shown herself to be as resourceful in business as she was in emancipating herself from her drunken, abusive husband. She proves to be equally resourceful in seeking a husband for her nineteen-year-old daughter Polly, whose morals leave something to be desired. ... Polly needs to find a husband, both to take her place in the adult world and to quash the rumors about her rampant hormones. ... Furthermore, one might possibly argue the fact that because Polly is nineteen-years-old, very flirtatious, and single, that this was a very effective means of finding the ideal person to marry he...

• Word Count: 2723
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Nick's "second cousin once removed" was Daisy Buchanan who lived with her husband Tom in East Egg, just "[a]cross the courtesy bay" from West Egg (p. 10). ... Myrtle Wilson's sister, Catherine, declares that Myrtle was "crazy about [George, her husband] for a while" (p. 39). ... The fact that Myrtle's entire opinion about her husband changed when she discovered he borrowed his wedding suit demonstrates how fickle and petty she is. ...

• Word Count: 2520
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Women were assumed to have the same interest and opinions as the men who represented them, and they were repeatedly assured that their husbands, sons, and fathers would always have their best interest at heart. ...

• Word Count: 3295
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In ancient China, a woman no longer belonged to the family clan of her parents after she got married, and she had to put her husband's family name before hers. ... Therefore, a girl's parents would strive to give her a luxurious wedding ceremony since they took it as the last thing they could do for their daughter, and by doing so it might help solidify her status in her husband's family. ...

• Word Count: 9974
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: High School

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). ... "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). ...

• Word Count: 3315
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• Grade Level: High School

He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker, but there was no reason to waste one's time over him. (39) It was an average family in the middle class - a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him. (41) The rest of the book shows how wrong the narrator's first impression was and the reader' s attitude towards Strickland's character changes as the novel progresses. ... He made enemies rather than friends. (23) There was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his ...

• Word Count: 6573
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School

The only name they could use in public was the family name or the husband name. ... In other words, the opinions of fathers and husbands were their voice. ... Judge Steadman of Fredericton; Lady Tilley, wife of Sir Leonard Tilley; Edith Archibald, whose husband Charles was manager of Gowrie Mines in Cow Bay, and so on. ...

• Word Count: 2672
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Adams accused Jackson of adultery because his wife had not been completely divorced from her previous husband before marrying Jackson (Sage 7). ... Jackson was seen as both a common man and yet an "ideal- American, and this allowed him to appeal to Americans from all social classes. ... He was an ideal American in that he was a powerful leader, appearing honest, courageous, charismatic, and very practical. ... Many of the Jacksonian ideals are very closely related to those of the Jeffersonians back when Thomas Jefferson was in power. ... Jefferson favored farmers, believing that they were ...

• Word Count: 3241
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He said that the society affected an individual in two ways; first by integration (over integration and under integration), also by creating purposes and ideals and secondly by regulation of the individual or by putting restrictions on his unlimited desires. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It chronicles the family's passage through the years as hope gives way to despair, as sacrifice reaches its limits, and as youthful ideals finally find fruition. ... Angela, the mother, after years of disappointments and heartache brought on by her irresponsible husband, the death of several of her children, and abject poverty, is once again penniless, and is shown sitting in front of the useless fire poking its ashes, as one would the coals of a burning fire. ... Angela is grief stricken, her husband turns once more to drink, and the children, the eldest of whom is six, have to fend f...

• Word Count: 3537
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• Grade Level: High School

My goals for this birth were to have a non-medicated, vaginal birth, with my mother and husband present. ... My only solace at the time was being able to have my husband there with me, trying to comfort me. ... When my husband spoke up about it she rudely claimed that it was just a scratch and that I would be fine. ... I was happy that my husband had made sure to tell them not to give my son a bottle when they took him away. ... I was still completely numb from the chest down so she and my husband had to help me. ...

• Word Count: 3533
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Through Hugo's novel, Cossette portrays these stereotypical feminine ideals with her pleasant and easygoing attitude and striking beauty. ... One Feminist ideal that becomes popular after the publication of Les Misresbales is the slogan "the personal is political". ... Eponine breaks away from the classic ideal of a women being controlled by a man, either a father or husband. ...

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Medea - The strong willed woman who would do anything for her husband is victimized by him and turns deadly. ... Medea is willing to cause herself pain my murdering her own children in order to spite her husband. ... The Medea tells the story of the jealousy and revenge of a woman betrayed by her husband. ... In reply she reminds her husband of what she had once done for him; how for him she had betrayed her father and her people; for his sake had caused Pelias, whom he feared, to be killed by his own daughters. ... She revels in the anguish of her faithless husband. ...

• Word Count: 7698
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School