Society demanded that she must take a place under her husband. ... She decides to leave her doll's house after coming to realize that their ideal home including their marriage and parenting has been a fabrication for the sake of society. Now Helmer being brought up in the same society is an example of a stereotypical husband. ... Alving, obsessed with keeping up appearances, tries to protect her late husband's reputation. But because of this concern, she not only ends up living a lie, building a memorial to her husband's false reputation, but she also ruins the lives of her h...

• Word Count: 1368
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Many of his plays are so remarkable, not necessarily because of the complex issues they raise, but rather the ideals they "challenge-. Shakespeare's tragedies are notorious for starting with one or more noble figures that go against the dominant social meaning systems only to have them eventually fall into submission to these ideals and beliefs. ... When Emelia is tending to her in Act IV scene iii, Desdemona asks Emelia if "thou in conscience think/ that there be women do abuse their husbands/ In such gross kind?... Yet as though she were following in the footsteps of her husband, in t...

• Word Count: 1558
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Manley is, very clearly, refuting the accepted ideals of feminine passivity and the defenseless position in which a blind execution of such ideals leaves women. ... Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly virtuous a woman is, but rather was an important negotiation tool in securing a husband, getting paid off in a sense by said husband's wealth, and cementing a woman's societal status as a "proper" woman. ... To add to her troubles, her husband and lawful master, growing increasingly weary of his wife and easily influenced by the...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Anything wanted by women, or exemplary of their individualism was shunned in fear that one day these feminist ideals would grow and overcome the once subservient gender. ... In which, he impregnates her mentally-retarded daughter only so Yasuko could have the closest thing to an heir that her deceased husband Akio, could not give her. ... She uses her intuition, her female intuition, to catch her husband in the act. ... It is not only advanced for the Japanese culture, but for the western ideal as well, where there are still less heroines as opposed to heros. ...

• Word Count: 1363
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Those in higher social castes are expected to have virtuous values and ideals and expected to behave in a different way. ... These texts graphically depict women as subservient, serving and needing attention and so far as illustrates the role of females as a wife to bear her husband's children (Van Ham, 2008). ... Suttee (literally 'virtuous woman') is a sacrifice a widow was supposed to make voluntarily by which was burnt on her husband's funeral pyre or otherwise live in disgrace for the rest of her life (Whiting, 2005). Although the practice of Suttee was officially s...

• Word Count: 1545
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To be accepted into the high social circle she wished to continue to be included in, she needed a husband who was rich and prestigious. ... Accusing Lily of having an affair with George, Bertha's husband, Bertha caused Lily to become unaccepted in her social circle. ... Gerty Farish was an independent woman who thought outside of society's ideals and was not obligated to conform to the rest of the accepted populace. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6

The seventies marked the beginning of the Woman's Movement and the end of the ideals we held on what it is to be a "man" and what it is to be a "woman." ... The fact is that the family has changed and that the traditional family structure of homemaker, husband as breadwinner, constitutes only 10 percent of families. ...

• Word Count: 1361
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Followed by the traditional idea of the 'American Dream', the 'ideal' way to live became to be the nuclear family. ... Furthermore, women's domestic work is unpaid, which again benefits Capitalism as the female is keeping the working husband and future labour generation healthy and strong. ...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

For all their epigrammatic wit and paradoxical attitudes towards life, Oscar Wilde's other 1890's society comedies, Lady Windermere's Fan and An Ideal Husband are serious dramas about the intractability of sexual double-standards and the personal costs of respectability. ...

• Word Count: 1627
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Mattie in A Gathering Light does not conform to these ideals as she values education and asks all the questions no one dares to. ... In the context of A Gathering Light women were expected to be selfless and put their husbands and children before themselves and their wants. ...

• Word Count: 1463
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Par eues en 1782, Les Liaisons Dangereuses furent reçu comme un roman scandaleux qui peignait avec exagération et complaisance des mœurs abominable en faisant semblant de les condamner dans un dénouement conventionnelle." How far does a modern reader share this reaction to Laclos' novel. Les...

• Word Count: 1961
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams' articulates masculinity through the use of whiskey placed on the table.9This demonstrates maleness as it is said that alcohol was a 'man's market' because all advertisements during the 1950's were put in place to promote male masculinity and to emphasise what the ideal man should have, including the type of alcohol he purchases.10Furthermore, the fact that the alcohol is whiskey and not something like wine also validates hard-core masculinity as wine is commonly related to romantic events with women. ... However, due to society&#...

• Word Count: 1885
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography