Plutarch goes on to explain the ideal roles of the husband and the wife. ... A wife also needs to behave properly and obey the husband at all times, including pleasing her husband at all times. ... In an ideal marriage, partners should be faithful. This is not the case in " A husband's defence." ... Finally, in the passage, "A petition from a husband claiming that his wife stole his property," it will be shown that realities of marriage do not always fit the ideals. ...

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When a woman married, her wealth passed to her husband. ... Therefore, they depended upon their looks - according to the ideals of men, charm, and domestic skills. ... Under the Louisiana legal code, a woman belonged to her husband. ... Adele lived exclusively for her husband and children. ... Leonce Pontellier was a typical Creole husband. ...

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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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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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She is expected to teach the children such things as responsibility and morality while the husband has only to worry about providing the funds to support the family. ... The second event that helped keep women in the home was literature and books urging women to subordinate themselves to their husbands (Epstein/Easton 93). ... Television sitcoms of the fifties portrayed the husband leaving for work and only returning to make decisions that the wife knew was beyond her ability to make. They showed the wife, always, neatly pressed with not a hair out of place, fixing dinner while the husband ...

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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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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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This book taught that men should treat their wives with honor and respect, "but he insisted that women remain subject to the guidance of the principal men in their lives-first their fathers, then their husbands, and finally, if they survived their husbands, their sons." ... Their actions would be a loud example to those of less prominence that women were dependant on their husbands. Similar, male dominated, ideals are found in the "Ramayana," by R.K. ... In the story Sita is extremely dependent and loyal to her husband Rama. ... I do not believe that I would have the strength to throw myself...

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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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One would ask why she would have such feelings, when she was just told that her husband was dead. ... Unfortunately for Louise, marriages then were dominated by the husband. ... I could not imagine having to stay at home tending to the every needs of my husband. ... Even on walks about the town one would see a woman walking not beside her husband but behind him. ... "Victorian culture regarded the self-sacrificing wife, dependent on her husband and devoted to her children, the ideal of femininity" (Cengage, 1). ...

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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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Women were to embody the ideals of being the perfect wife. ... Mallard got the news of her husband's death. ... Both Glaspell and Chapin used these ideals to set a basis for their stories. ... The women were not required to be submissive sharing everything with their husbands. ... So it is no coincidence that Minnie Foster strangled her husband in the eye for an eye notion. ...

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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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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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Her father sent her overseas to marry a King and the king tamed her and groomed her into an ideal queen. ... This husband hit her and she also made him feel guilty for his actions. ... They plot to get rid of her husband so they can be happy together. ... The Clerk's Tale tells about a woman who is abused by her husband. ... She gets her children and her husband back in the end. ...

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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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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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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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Society and its regulations and ideals have confined Gurov to an inescapable doom of self-pity. ... Anna is also held back because she is being held in a marriage where she does not love her husband and finds him to be a "flunky" (Chekhov 1289). ... For Anna was throw into the marriage with her husband at the mere age of twenty, too young to know of anything better. ... It would be outlandish if Anna were divorce from her husband, as well as Gurov leaving his wife for another. ...

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In the case of Margot, she is not at all satisfied with having a husband who, in her eyes, is a coward. He is not living up to the ideals and pictures she has about how you are a real man, and unfortunately Wilson lives to these standards, she thinks. And she has a very cynical way to show what she thinks of her husband's way of behaving. ... Margot can not tolerate that her husband is acting like this, and her way of showing this is by humiliating him as a kind of punishment. ...

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