She believes that if she gives them lots of sex they will carry on loving her. It comes across as though she wants the security of a husband, as she does not feel love towards them and does not want them to leave her, so she gives them sex to make them stay. Chaucer presents their relationship as being extremely one sided, as the Wife of Bath does not value her husbands love at all, and instead is only interested in materialistic objects and the belongings in which her husband has to offer her. She feels she does not need to repay her husband as she is satisfied with the land she has won, an...

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Sexual Promiscuity Sex, it is a beautiful thing, an experience reserved for a man and woman who are in love. Love is often made in lust, and when lust takes over, sex becomes and act of pure pleasure. In The Three Guest of Heile of Bersele and The Miller's tale, sex is promiscuous, prostitution rampant, and disloyalty prominent, which shows how women can affect their own self-respect, and how men take advantage of them. ... She, as was common, was reduced to an object of a man's desire. ... IN conclusion, Sex cannot be treated as an act of pure pleasure, for when it beco...

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Joselyn is the object of Sir Ulrich's affection. ... She is a worldly person who has experienced the world through love and sex. ... In both past and present, a man would do anything for his true love, striving everyday to make her feel like she is the object of his every thought. ...

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Symbolism is the use of an object or action to express ideas, emotions, or a state of mind. ... In the poem "Anyone Who Had A Heart", Phillips talks about the idea of sex being a need rather than a want, and how it's desired. ... As I pointed out earlier, Phillips is talking a lot about sex in this poem, which ties in with the horse symbolizing sexual energy. ... These are only two poems within the whole novel of Silverchest that express difficult feelings of passion, desire, love, freedom and sex. ...

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A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. ... A person's first love object is the mother. ... (For girls, the object of love somehow later becomes the father. ...

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The speaker's intentions are obvious to the reader; sex today and love tomorrow. ... The irrationality lies in the thought of love being directly compared to physical objects; love is not quantifiable nor is it tangible, while empires are qualitative and substantial. ... Flattery creates ignorance, allusions embrace immanence and fear substantially becomes the paradigm for manipulating women and promoting sex as a last resort for salvation. ...

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The two men even speak of her in the third person, which reflects their idea of her as an object. ... Fowler's relationship with Phuong is built on sex. " I don't care that for her interests. ... He takes sex from her and a sense of security. ...

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The Oxford English Dictionary offers, among many definitions, two definitions for lover that could apply to this tragedy: first, "One who is in love with, or who is enamoured of a person of the opposite sex (sic);- and second, "One who loves illicitly; a gallant, paramour."" ... Her every mentioning of love seems to be a synonym for sex. ... Juliet is delighted to be the object of affection - affection, unlike Paris's, that can satisfy her quickly and amorously. ...

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She has been the object of not one but two men's hearts and now the shoe is on the other foot. ... After his enchantment has gone away Demetrius feels that his love for Hermia has "melted as the snow" and "all the faith, the virtue of {his} heart, the object and the pleasure of {his} eye is only Helena" (4.1.166-171). ... She acts in a way that is not very becoming of a lady. " Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex. ...

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In the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, characters conflicting with their own personal desires becomes a trend; adding conflict, emotion, and imagery for the reader. One character in particular seems to fit the description of paradoxical with her own self; Ophelia. Ophelia is a prime example o...

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This takes a blow towards the similarities of both authors' literature, as a vast majority of the "Sappho Saga" consists of same sex issues that occurred in her everyday life. ... Females were treated as objects, and while she didn't know any better at the time, Sappho was not fond of the idea of somebody else possessing her lover. ...

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Characteristic for courtly love is that the "object of the lovers affections was a married lady of high rank" that theoretical only could be adored at a distance however, the romantic custom of courtly love allows the knights and ladies to show their admiration regardless of their marital sex (Porter, 5). ...

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Characteristic for courtly love is that the "object of the lovers affections was a married lady of high rank" that theoretical only could be adored at a distance however, the romantic custom of courtly love allows the knights and ladies to show their admiration regardless of their marital sex (Porter, 5). ...

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The only conventional uses women had to men were to cook them dinner and then to later have sex with them. Her eminent beauty and her great ability to cook made her the object of affection for very man. ...

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