The Bath of Wife shows the women perspective on how life should be. ... The Wife of Bath has been married five times and is currently searching for another man to marry on the trip. The Wife of Bath was a strange individual. ... In the knight's tell you find out that happiness and the good life are fighting for your country. ... Geoffrey Chaucer also seemed to have a completely opposite view of the good life then the Wife of Bath. ...

• Word Count: 2038
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: High School

The Shoemaker's Holiday uses the idea of disguise to address the topics of trade among other countries, peace instead of war, and lower social status for love while Epicene uses the vehicle of disguise to look at isolation and community, marriage ceremony, and the wife's role in a marriage. ... Dekker uses this hire of Hans to explore two ideas of trade among different countries. ... The second idea of trade among countries happens when, through Hans, Eyre gets the deal of a lifetime from the Skipper. ... Eyre has become a rich man because he was willing to work with a c...

• Word Count: 1396
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This woman is Audrey a plain and simple country girl. ... Rather, when Jacques, son of Sir Rowland di Bois asks him what he looks for in a woman he answers and the comments to himself , " ... for he / is not like to marry me well ; and not being well / married , it will be a good excuse fro me hereafter/ to leave my wife," (3.3.87-90). ... A "well- married" man of his day is one who wife is financially well off or is drop dead beautiful . ... Alternatively, by finding a less beautiful wife he wishes to ensure that his wife will never leave his side for another man so that she continue ...

• Word Count: 1514
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It is a tale that tells the story of a Scottish King, who's wife is the inspiration behind his means to take the thrown and claim his power. ... There is an evil that takes over her well intended ambition for her husband, family, and unfortunately it is what leads her to an uncontrollable state far exceeding her true love for Macbeth, and her best interests for her country. ... It is obvious that she has compassion and dearly loves and cares for her husband, but it is lust for power, and innocently so, her devotion for her country that makes her do what ever she can to influence him. ... ...

• Word Count: 1251
• Approx Pages: 5
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• Grade Level: High School

In the epic Nibelingenlied one man tells another, "she is to me as my soul and as my body, and I will do anything to deserve that she become my wife,"" (Anderson and Zinsser, 333). ... Love was fun, it was a game and a way to take people's minds off of the current situation in their country "whether in war or in peacetime. ... Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. King Equitan, in the famous lai, by Marie de France, of the same...

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In William Wycherley's "Country Wife" (1675), the marriage between Margery and Bud Pinchwife represents a hostile marriage between an old man and a young woman. Pinchwife marries Margery specifically because of her ignorance and youth since, as he asks Horner, "What is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?" ... An old husband with a young wife only has the fear of being made a cuckold when he isn't looking and would try every possible way to avoid this happening. ... When Harriet sinks into a depressing mood, thinking of her lonely house in the country, Dorimant adm...

• Word Count: 1576
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

By writing about the death of someone she never knew, Thaxter proves a husband's love for his wife and she does this through death. ... In Illusion, Ella Wheeler Wilcox shows that the even the Christian belief of the dutiful wife was dying. ... They wanted the death of the "good Christian wife." ... By women finally earning this change, it was a step closer towards changes in other aspects of our new country, changes like equality between the white man, the black man, the Native American, and the women....

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

This novel is basically the story of a country girl, Tess whose fate is tragic and in the end she becomes a "tragic heroine". ... At their wedding night Tess manages to tell him everything about her past but it is too late and Angel turns away from her and he feels that he is no longer able to acknowledge her as his wife. ... Her real love, Angel returns determined to find her but Tess already lives as Alec's wife. ...

• Word Count: 1257
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Some individuals are willing to sacrifice themselves to do actions that go far beyond the scope of ordinary, and are directed, in some sense, to benefit large groups of people, such as a nation and country. ... They did it because they loved, they valued and wanted to protect something that is called motherland, country, nation, people, family, children, nature, and peace. ... In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered in the country of Rwanda. ... But he left his wife and children in the van of a United Nations for helping others. ...

• Word Count: 1317
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• Grade Level: High School

He starts to think about the war that his country is currently going through, and remembers that only a few years ago they were allies with that very same country. ... Married people are allowed to have sex, but his wife never wanted to because since she was a child she was taught it was dirty and was always afraid some one was watching. ... The news of the country's victory over their enemy comes over the Telescreen and everyone cheers and celebrates. ... If the government gets to powerful, and the power is taken away from the citizens of that country then the current party will alwa...

• Word Count: 1552
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• Grade Level: High School

The downfall to that is that if the "partners" are not given the same legal rights of what is considered the "normal" husband and wife couple then it isn't enough. ... Our country is built upon trust, dedication and understanding, but we are the most judgmental, and critical country in the world. ... All of those close minded, one sided not real people don't have to agree to have a homosexual relationship or even have to "like" what someone else does, but the issue of not allowing homosexual males and females to get married because it's not the right thing to do is against wha...

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In other countries, like Middle East countries, the people have limited freedom. ... Twain is simply telling things how they were, back when slavery still existed in our country. ... After the school year one year, Happy failed math because he neglected to study and he went to visit his father on a business trip to ask him if he could talk to his teacher for him, but Happy caught his father cheating on his wife. ...

• Word Count: 2060
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers The story takes place in a small sorrowful town, where in fact usually nothing happens. One of main characters is Amelia Evans, a strong, almost masculine woman who ran a liquor store in the town. She was rich, nineteen years old girl consi...

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• Grade Level: High School

The character of Robert Cohn in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, is a compelling one for a host of reasons. Although Cohn is a central character in the novel, it is impossible for the reader to gain an unbiased depiction of his personality. Therefore, although his actions speak loudly for so...

• Word Count: 2361
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• Grade Level: High School

Tuesdays With Morrie is the true story of the remarkable lessons taught by a dying teacher to his pupil. Morrie Schwartz has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and has only a few months to live. Mitch Albom is a reporter who was once a student of Morrie's in college, but has sli...

• Word Count: 1566
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• Grade Level: High School

Story Elements in A Farewell to Arms The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic novel about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. It captures the inspiring trials and tribulations of the disillusioned soldier caught between love and war. Driving an ambul...

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• Grade Level: High School

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this lo...

• Word Count: 2324
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School