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. ...

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Nevertheless, his over joy runs so wild that it almost spoils his reason and makes him slight the sorrow from the ladies, who have suffered the militant invasion causing their husbands' death. ... Thanne were they maad upon a creature To purge uryne, and eek for engendrure," says the Wife of Bath in her prologue, suggesting her idea of a husband's physical and economic devotion for his wife. ...

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Honesty is supposed to be an important ideal in society which is trivialised in the play as Jack and Algernon were willing to lie to get what they want. ... Lady Bracknell suggests that marriage is a burden when she explains to Algernon that Lady Harbury "looks quite twenty years younger"(Act1 p19) since her husband had died. ... " my ideal has always been to marry some one of the name Ernest ..The moment Algernon first mentioned to me that he had a friend called Ernest, I knew I was destined to love you"(Act 1page23) When Jack asks if Gwendolen's decision about his name is irre...

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It was her husband's misfortune that he did not make this interesting discovery himself, but he had his brokerage business to think about and brokers deal in stocks, not hearts. ... (Chopin 197) "One day, Edna Pontellier, whose husband has vaguely held her dear as a bit of decorative furniture, a valuable piece of property, suddenly became aware that she was a human being."" ... You can divorce a husband, but you cannot divorce your children. ... Adele is the ideal Victorian woman. Edna is bothered by Adele's undivided attention to her husband's opinion. ...

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Morel, is his "soul" support and is the most important person in Paul's life, but appears to be viewed as her husband's property". Even if she was hit by her husband, she had to do much for her husband. Furthermore, she did not know exactly how much her husband earned. ... "If I were a man, nothing's gonna stop me " As the England industrial atmosphere came, in the man-centered family, her husband treated her sadistically, in order to live, Mrs. ... She put her children at arms, projected her own ideal and life view on her children, and hoped so as to fill the feelings of vacu...

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A common mistake for Christians to do is to defend a cultural version of marriage because they believe it is the same as the biblical ideal of marriage (Reference 11 pg. 87). ... A husband, just as the wife does, plays many roles and key parts in keeping a good marriage. The husband is to love their wife as they love themselves (Reference 2). ... Wives are supposed to submit themselves to their husband (Reference 2). ... A husband is referred to as being Christ in a marriage and should act as Christ to his wife (Reference 12 pg. 47). ...

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Yet this could be viewed as unjustified as both texts present them as arguably formidable; Gertrude in Hamlet may be viewed critically by audiences as she seems to act without grief when referring to her late husband's death as "common"" in Act One, Scene Two. ... The film version of the play, ends very differently, which really conveys Stella's guilt and almost resentment for having to choose her husband over her sister. ...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. Benvolio, a Montague, tries to stop the fighting, but is himself embroiled when the rash Capulet, Tybalt, arrives on the scene. After citizens outraged by the...

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On the surface, she seems to have the ideal life. ... Is she upset because her husband makes her feel so inadequate? ... A few days after the scene that sent Edna away crying, she receives a box of treats from her husband, perhaps as a way to make up for his harsh behavior. ... Pontellier the world's greatest husband. ...

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"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. Carol Weshoven looks at Priscilla's character as her prime example of child brides in American literature in her article, "America's Child Brides: The Price of a Bad Bargain."" Weshoven describes Priscilla thus: "From her initial intrusion into the Happy Valley, the ice maiden brings discord to the warm and vi...

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