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. ...

• Word Count: 625
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 671
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Her father's suggestion that her existence should be sleep and housework display the sexist ideal that a higher education is wasted on a woman. ... She is already burdened with "two kids and a husband who left (p.84)." And so she is left to take care of them herself because of her on and off husband. ... The emotional and physical abuse Minerva suffers at the hands of the husband who continually leaves and returns is a problem which both Minerva and Esperanza do not know how to solve. ...

• Word Count: 478
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I feel that though our schooling and upbringings, we are influenced as to what the ideal of life is within this culture should be. ... The husband leaves for work early in the mourning and does not return until late at night because he must be the breadwinner and take care of his family. ... I would still say that the ideal is still to have the stay at home mom and the breadwinning dad. ...

• Word Count: 569
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Maggie: A girl of the streets by Stephen Crane is a short novel about a young girl and the people in her life. Despite its shortness , this book tells many significant themes that its author twist throughout the book. Such themes are Determinism, Hypocrisy, False morality, self-deception, and appe...

• Word Count: 411
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

We also see how Jason should act as a husband and a father. ... Women were considered possessions of their fathers or husbands. During this time women were expected to be submissive to their husbands and accept all their decisions and actions. ... Because a mother supposed to have endless love and care for her children, an ideal mother would never send her children to perform a task that she knew would ultimately end up in their deaths. ... She defies social standards like caring for her children and society's view on murder in order to get revenge on her ex-husband. ...

• Word Count: 1020
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

We also see how Jason should act as a husband and a father. ... Women were considered possessions of their fathers or husbands. During this time women were expected to be submissive to their husbands and accept all their decisions and actions. ... Because a mother supposed to have endless love and care for her children, an ideal mother would never send her children to perform a task that she knew would ultimately end up in their deaths. ... She defies social standards like caring for her children and society's view on murder in order to get revenge on her ex-husband. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

George is drawn as a traditional husband, charismatic in the workplace but insensitive and generally unemotional at home. ... As befits the 1950s patriarchy, he appears to have the ideal life. ... Her relationship with her husband is based on compromise and forgiveness as well as love, as her willingly principles has permitted her to understand and not judge her adulterous spouse and accept her self-seeking daughter. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The ideal was for men to act as the sole providers and women to work in the home and distribute the husband's income to the various household needs. ... Joe's own husband. ... Joe treats her husband as another child, one whose mouth needs to be rinsed with tar-water (pp 12), and who endures physical outrage as much as Pip. ... Joe represents the type of housewife who thinks she is indispensable to the household, constantly nagging at her husband and making too much fuss about little things. ...

• Word Count: 1179
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Gregers states, "I confidently expected...to find the light of transfiguration shining upon me from both husband and wife. ... The consistent failure of his morals and agendas reinforce the main theme of the play, teaching us that ideals are meaningless if they do not serve a function in reality....

• Word Count: 511
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

An ideal home would consist of a man and wife, with children born out of the loving relationship. ... Hence, women should be independent so they do not rely solely on their husbands for any means. ... Girls learn to be coquettish so that they might catch a husband, to have babies and be a mother. ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her name is Margery Wolf who does not agree herself as an anthropologist but her husband is an anthropologist who is interested in Chinese families. Otherwise, Wolf would like to send to her readers three things "to present a case study for the social scientist interested in the strains inherent to the form of family considered ideal in China, to provide another account of village life for those with a more general interest in China, and to tell a good story" (page vi). ... Both Wolf and her husband choose Taiwan for the case study instead of China because China is such a huge countr...

• Word Count: 991
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School