He had too high of expectations of a woman. ... " I must marry her and in doing so I will surely be doing far more good than many of those who marry their housekeepers and often even the most contemptible creatures. - (Gogol 22) He even thinks that he is doing a great deed for society... In Dostoevsky's "The Underground Notes-, the underground man was way too crazy to fall in love with someone. ... They put it before their marriages, before their children (Dmitri's, maybe Anna's), and before society's expectations of them. ...

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Therefore, he will not be able to be intimate with those women who he has great respect and affection for, since they will effectively remind him of his mother. ... I stated above that a man chooses to marry someone whom he has great respect and affection for. ... This results in a great overvaluation of his wife. ... (Nietzsche 147) These things result in the woman once again feeling as if she has done something wrong, when really all she has done is conform to the expectations set forth by society. ... Yet as wonderful as this rebellion from the norms of society sounds, it is very diffi...

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