The friends have always dreamed of their "perfect family" , being married, with children. ... Victoria is married to a man who is a hard worker, and he is a good husband. the only thing she feels like she is missing is a child.Victoria is the type of lover who is always getting an intense, sexual arousal from her husband. ... Phil is married to a woman who does not want to be a mother, or a wife. ... Over time the movie shows Phil and Zenobia end up getting married and pregnant with their first child together, showing their "storge" love, going from being best friends to g...

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In the first stanza, Dickinson starts the poem with "I'm 'wife'"the image of a traditional female persona is created as someone who "finished that-/That other state/" and essentially turned to be the "Czar" or, in other words, the woman becomes the ruler of herself, after she gets married. ... She uses the word Czar as a metaphor for emphasizing that to get married was a crucial step to have access to societal status back in the 19th century. ... She is fully understands the merits and demerits of being a married woman and a single lady. ... At th...

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Marriage defined social class for women during this time, so it was important for girls to get married so they could have an acceptable life. ... 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. ... She doesn't want to fall back on her words of not getting married, but as she thinks about the situation more, she starts to grow feelings for Benedick. ... In the end, Benedick wins her over, as well ...

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It was obvious that every woman's dream was to get married and have children. ... When asked what she wanted to do after college her response was getting married. ... At the end, however, Joan cannot do both because her boyfriend swept her they could secretly get married. ... She is traditional a virgin getting married to the man of her dreams. ... In a conversation with one of her friends Giselle says, "Women like Katherine don't get married because they choose not too." ...

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We know that she changed her identity a lot because she was ashamed of who she was and she married Sir Michael because she wanted more wealth and a status in her life. ... She married Sir Michael who is a lot older than her because she knew if she married him she would get the wealth and the status she wants which only a few people have. ... " I kind of disagree with this argument because I do find her strange but not mad, Lady Audley is not normal, but she is independent she gets what she wants, but she always has a really interesting way of getting it. When she got married the second ...

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Nancy Lameter concentrated on Godfrey Cass even before they were married. Although Nancy tells Priscilla that she never means to be married, she thinks of being the Squire's wife, and treasures the dried flowers Godfrey gave her. Now that they are married she occupies herself with thoughts of Godfrey and his state of mind. ... Kimble addresses Godfrey " Let somebody run to Winthrop's and get Dolly, she's the best woman to get...

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In both cases, each woman is married to a rather forceful husband. ... They both take place in a time in history where it was basically expected of a young woman to get married and bear and raise children, whether that was what she wanted to do with her life or not, and regardless of her own aspirations, dreams, or any other facet of her previous life. ... The young woman in Machinal got married to her husband because, as a woman, she did not know what else to do. ... It seems that she does not really even want to get married to her boss in the first place; she just wants to do what is expecte...

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In the case of King Oedipus, Oedipus married his mother without knowing before hand. ... She finally married a man for love and not his wealth. ... They plot to get rid of her husband so they can be happy together. ... She gets her children and her husband back in the end. ... It appears as time goes on women get a little more freedom and rights. ...

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Ryder was a young slave and he married Liza Jane. ... Up until now, he has forgotten all about his wife he married when he was young. ... He introduces everyone to the woman he married when he was younger. ... Chesnutt believes that he shouldn't get married because he already is. ... I think Chesnutt wrote this story because he wanted people to know the devotion and confidence of what a woman who had lost her husband went through to try and get him back. ...

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They are married and for the first year everything seems to be fine. ... He did get prostitutes whenever he went out of town on business. This shows that Edgar is sorrowful with his married and sex life because if he was not sorrowful about it, he would not get the prostitutes. ... In The Answer Is No the woman is sorrowful because she can never get married and have children, at least in her eyes. ... Brill hides her sorrow from this young couple by getting up and leaving. ...

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The book purposely used the name Clarissa to ensure the reader would get this picture of the young women. ... He is a symbol of her life before she was married She is used when she is reflecting on her true feelings this is displayed on page 36. ... Which is significant because she is both who she was before she was married and the women that she is now Mrs. ... Walsh's desire to untie the knot is shown on page 119 "and it came over me "I might have married you," she said thinking of peter sitting there in his bowtie; with that knife, opening it, shutting it." ...

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Nowadays (in most places) marriage isn't just about money or social status, to be with someone for the rest of your life you get to make a choice, a choice women didn't used to have a right to. ... Once a woman got married, she could not continue to work outside of the house, now her job consisted of taking care of the home, husband, and possible future children. ... This realization she has and how happy she was is proof of how unreachable freedom seemed to married women in those times, a freedom we were born into. ... Couples, not necessarily married, are unfaithful to their partne...

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He is the local doctor in this all black community, and he provides his mostly married female patients with more than just medicine. At a party, 10-year-old Eve played with a beautiful smile but not much more, catches her daddy having sex in the barn with a married woman and it is not his wife. ... As Louis's crazy sister, Mozelle Batiste gets the most outlandish part in the film. ... Only the joyous event of someone else's kid getting run over by a bus sets the Batiste children free. ... This gets not only Eve thinking, but the audience as well. ...

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To get around the illegality, the servitude was stipulated for a limited number of years, usually 99. ... It was considered a duty to get married. ... There was no age limit as to when people could be married, but generally a girl did not get married until she had begun to menstruate, about the age of fourteen. Some documents state that girls may have been married at the age of eight or nine, and the mummy of an eleven-year-old wife has also been found. (4) Marriages required no religious or legal ceremony. ... The more intimate parts of married life were very important to the Egyptians. ...

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People from the future may seem to believe that its customary to get one wife then divorce her and pick up another one. ... In the future they might not even get married, so maybe their interested in seeing what it was like to be married or divorced. ...

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Rochester after she had found he was already married. ... Also in the last chapter of this impressive novel we can read: "Reader, I married him..." (474) as a symbol of the victory which Jane achieved when she get married to Mr. ... You could notice that she didn't write "we get married" to emphasize her – woman's - success....

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As a teenager, her main goal than became, in her words, " I had to get the hell out of my mother's house. " I found it to be very note worthy and interesting that Johnson was one of the first black students to integrate Garrison Junior High; which at the time had only white students. ... Johnson married when she was eighteen, and admits that she married for the wrong reasons; pregnant, but not in love. ... Her response was, "I will get two jobs"." ... Like a true love story, Johnson was able to find love and married her childhood sweetheart with her second marriage. ... When Johnson was...

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To her food was the only way she could be with Pedro and not get caught, a form of rebellion against her mother. ... First was the role of Tita, Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco I Madero, and along with other labor workers, mirrored each other for the simple fact all she wanted was to get married and break tradition and all they wanted according to the module, on the Mexican Revolution, was freedom and their land back. Once they both were unable to get what they felt was entitled to them they rebelled. ... Mama Elena and Mexico's president Diaz, both used manipulation to get wha...

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Think of the reason why, it's because you have to get to work or you have to get to school. ... She wants to get married and become a woman. She is young, only sixteen and has "glossy leaves and bursting buds" (11), and she wants to be married. ... Janie overcomes her fear of him leaving her the first day they are married. She also survives a hurricane with Tea Cake where he rescues her from a rabid dog and gets bitten himself. ...

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English audiences in the Renaissance period would have been concerned with ideals of married life. ... Like his other romantic comedies, The Taming of the Shrew focuses on courtship and marriage and the various roles that the man and woman play, but, unlike most of them, it devotes a great deal of attention to married life after the wedding. ... The more the men talk about Kate, the worse the report gets. ... (IV.iii.73-80) Unfortunately, not even this is enough to get her as much as the cap in the end. ... However, when Bianca, who has married Lucenio and the widow, who has married Hortensio...

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She has never loved him and only married him because it was the right time and his affection towards her was flattering. ... She felt as though she had lost her youth as well as passion once married to Leonce. ... Because she is not a Creole she does not understand that is it normal and understandable for a married woman to enjoy the company of a single man. ... As a result Edna begins to turn others away and becomes involved with herself and gets lost in a world of fantasy rather than reality. ...

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Cause and Effect of Divorce Most people believe that the main reason people get divorced is because of deterioration of the family structure. ... People think since the woman is getting money because of child custody, she would be well off and on top of receiving money she is working so therefore there should not be any financial problems. ... The decline is especially severe for women who have children, women who were married to upper middle-class men, and long-married women. ... After divorce, women who are married to upper-middle class men have hard times finding a job because, dur...

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In fact, Shug struggled tremendously to get where she was. She was one in love with Mr. ____ but due to complications, their love was never recognized and he married Annie Julia. ... Nonetheless, after Annie Julia died, Mr. ____ was ready to rekindle their passion even though he was currently married to Celie. ...

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Women were granted many less rights than men were, and for this reason they generally married, and stayed married until death. ... Although she is relying on someone else, she accepts the help graciously, and this would be a huge step to get her on her feet. ... Once she gets on her feet, however, we can speculate that she would be able to find a job, earn money, and make it on her own. ... She would need a place to live, money to help get her started, etc. ...

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Some women in Saudi are forced to get married from an old man that she barely knows because her father believes that that person is the right one for her." reports of a forced marriage between a 15 year old girl and a man who is allegedly aged between 70-80 years old" (ashaforcedmarriage.org.uk). ... In some tribes, women are getting killed because they have disagreed to get married from a guy who has been chosen by her father. ...

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