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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Legally married employees receive higher compensation than unmarried or illegally married employees, and legally married people get more benefits from health and dental insurance. While the law prohibited homosexual couples to legally marry, the couples then do not receive benefits like the heterosexual couples even when they already live together or when they, themselves, believe to be a married couples like other married heterosexual couples. ...

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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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This way she gets the best of the both world. ... A part-time job allows mothers to basically get the best of both worlds. ... This way, the family stays happy and financially sound, while at the same time, the mother doesn't get too unsatisfied with her life while taking care of the kids all at once. ...

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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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For instance, Blanche seeks for an adequate man to get married and make her living. ... She wants to get married with Mitch not because she's in love with him but for her economic security. ... For example, women who were not married over 30's used to be called "old maids". So, Blanche strives to get married to raise her social status. ... If women had been equal to men as today, they wouldn't have accepted the conditions they encountered with, such as Stella could get divorced with Stanley, because he keeps applying physical violence on her. ...

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Both married and single women have problems with achieving the equivalence they have wanted for years. ... Approximately sixty percent of married women are now a part of the United States work force. ... That meant 70% of married women were not working, but at home and taking care of household duties. ... The increasing amount of women in the work force does not stop at only those married women. ... However, the fact of how much the women are getting paid must also be looked at. ...

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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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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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Gay marriage is a topic that I am sure that most people frown upon on, and when hearing the news of a gay couple getting married, they would look at both of them in complete horror, with a look of disgust painted across their faces. ... Gays should therefore have the rights to be able to marry their significant other and should deserve just as many rights as an 'ordinary' married couple have. ... Some of them get so affected, that they start to have suicidal thoughts. ...

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In The Wife of Bath's lifetime she has gone through five husbands (the first four had died and she was still married to the fifth at the time, and was open minded to a sixth). In all of her marriages she manipulated her husbands and used her sexuality as a weapon against them in order to get what she wanted, which was the upper-hand. ... In order to get them on the defensive when they got suspicious of her stepping out, she would criticize and accuse them of looking at other women. The fourth husband she married was actually young and harder to control. ...

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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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And in India, daughters require the disbursement of an expensive dowry in order to be married off, which is economically undesirable. ... The 100 most desirable men get married off quickly " desirability determined by things like education, income, social status, appearance, etc. The "quality " of the last 10 men that do not get married off is poor, or otherwise put, they are at the bottom of the food chain in terms of class and marriageability. ... In fact, projections state that by 2030 more than 25% of Chinese men in their late 30s will never have married . ...

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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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For example, there are many happily married couples that can face problems and still stay together. Fitzpatrick (1988:38) in Aries 1996 mentions that although there are unhappily married couples who fail to communicate effectively, research also shows that unhappily married couples can communicate well with other people. ... For instance, as mentioned above, the recent study shows that men have more gray matter that make them good in math, yet sometimes in school boys do not always get high score in math. ...

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Married women had few rights in the eyes of the law. ... The opportunities were never there for women to get an education because no colleges or universities would accept a female. ... The married women of today are very different from the married women of past because they can go to work to support themselves and family members, and handle social problems. ... If a wife gets a job with high salary, she also can support whole her family. ... A huge revolution has taken place in society where women are expected to get an education, and work. ...

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She strikes fear into the town and its parish to the point where she gets and does whatever she wants. ... The Wife of Bath has married five times, all rich men, and then when her husbands died she inherited their wealth and fortune. ... Following her fourth husband's death, the Wife of Bath married a man half her age within a month. ... However the Wife still desires to be married. ... For example speaking of her fifth husband: "God grant his soul may never get to Hell! ...

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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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She loves her father and stays with his family to be near him, but she is forcibly married off to a shoemaker. ... He eventually married an educated girl name Laila. ... Because of her status in the household, she tell, Marium"The children of strangers get ice cream. What do you get, Mariam? ... When Mariam's mother dies she is married off to a shoemaker who is thirty years older than her and initially seems to care about her. ...

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Instead, women are beginning to focus on their own education and career before getting married, and therefore getting married at a later age after completing two to four years of college. In 1960 the median age for women to get married was 20.3 years old, in 2010 that median age rose to 26.5 years old (Cohn, Passel, Wang, Livingston). ...

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Women were to get married, have children, and live a traditional life. ... She wanted to live freely, as she did even when married. ... Being that her mother and grandmother were both married and never re-married, she did not see a need for female dependency on a man. ... She married Oscar Chopin in the 1870's after graduating from the Academy of the Sacred Heart. ... Her mother and grandmother, both widows, never re-married. ...

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Jenny Nordberg interviews many women but focuses mostly on a tomboy teen Zahra, a married mother Shukria, and Nader who remains in male disguise into adulthood. ... I will not get married. I will not get married for as long as I am alive" (Nordberg 143). ...

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