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. ...
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. ...
Chaucer establishes a debate between these tales, which indicates that neither type of marriage is ideal, and the optimal marriage includes a balance of both practices. ... The conventional stories follow the morals and ideals of the century. ... The Clerk shares his story of a conventional marriage, which is bound by the ideals of society and depends upon the obedience of a wife to her husband. ... The Clerk's Tale acts as a response to the The Wife of Bath's Tale in terms of ideals and the role of women in marriage. ... The Clerk makes his point without directly stating it; the ide...
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 ...
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. ...
If she is unable to bring sufficient dowry, this woman is therefore harassed and all control is issued to a husband. ... It was a changing mindset that led to such atrocities; as having a girl became a burden, more work than it was worth.7 The inhumane experience of Sati best personifies the injustice, where the wife burns herself alive in the funeral pyre of her husband. ... 'On September 4, 1987 in the northern village of Deorala, Roop Kanwar learned that her husband had passed away. ... After being found by her husband's family, she was dragged to the funeral pyre, where her hus...
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 ...
Many peoples have been said to be monogamous, but it is difficult to infer from the data at our disposal whether monogamy is the prevalent practice, the moral ideal, or an institution safeguarded by sanctions (Malinowski 1962). ... Where each wife has her separate household and the husband visits them in turn, polygynous marriage resembles very closely a temporarily interrupted monogamy. ... It has also been suggested that polygyny as a marriage form evolved in response to lengthy postpartum sex taboos because polygyny provides a legitimate sexual outlet for the husband during this period of t...
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...
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...
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. ...
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). ...
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). ...
During the nineteenth century, the "nuclear family" structure dominated in American cities; with husbands working in factories and businesses to earn income and women remaining at home to raise children and attend to household duties. Most middle-class families attempted to adhere to the so-called Victorian sexual ideals of the day. ... Inspired by the writings of Freud, a growing number of Americans rejected the Victorian ideal of sexual restraint, believing that it undermined marriage by causing frustration and adulterous affairs. They instead promoted the modern companionate marriage tha...
In One of Ours the main character, Claude, is confronted with life changing decisions in his social and personal lives. He does not conform to many of the ideals, which his family lives by and therefore has become an outcast at home. However, Claude's personal struggles do not reside strictly withi...
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. ...
