With short life expectancy and the constant threat of disease, a young woman's best bet at reproduction was in her adolescent years. However, in the cases of both Ning Lao Tai Tai and her older sister Yintze, who were thrown into very unstable marriages, it made their lives much more problematic. Yintze had a decent enough husband, but her mother-in-law was unfair and highly abusive which would eventually lead her to insanity. On the other hand, Lao Tai Tai's marriage was set up by a 'professional matchmaker', who set her up with a husband who was hopelessly addicted to opium. He spent nearly all they had to fuel his addiction, and Lao Tai Tai and her daughter suffered severe poverty and hunger for many years because of her
Does love have a barrier? These questions arise personally after reading the novel ‘The Awakening’. To quote E. Jones, “Moral attitude towards others is substituted for an attitude of love”(5). The quote describes more of Edna who is a mother and a wife to one of the wealthiest Creole men in New Orleans, and during her time period having a family is part of societal expectations. Edna’s character abandons her role as a mother and wife; she breaks moral values and standards because of the intimate love affair she shares with Robert, therefore leading to the struggles she faces in the novel where she failed.
1 The inadequate fathers of Jane Austen: To what extent does inadequate fathering have an effect on their daughters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Emma? Word count: 3972 Table of contents I. Abstract P. 3 II. Contents P. 5 a. Introduction P. 5 b. Daughter-father relationships from a domestic setting The inadequacies of fatherhood and their effects The shared affection between daughters and their fathers The impacts the fathers have on their daughters’ perception of marriage and choosing of spouses c. Daughter-father relationships from a social setting The fathers’ efforts in searching for appropriate husbands for their daughters through making acquaintances The daughters’ and fathers’ views on marriages of convenience The impacts of inadequate fathering on the daughters’ social life d. Conclusion III. Bibliography P. 5 P. 6 P. 10 P. 12 P. 14 P. 15 P. 16 P. 18 P. 21 P. 22 2 Abstract Jane Austen is a woman of her times.
But as the case thickens, forgotten Jesse (Evan Ellingson) connects with Kate moreso than her parents even realise. Sara Fitzgerald (Cameron Diaz) ignores the signs of defeat than Kate radiates in everything she does, but continues an obsessive campaign to save her life. Kate’s Father Brian (Jason Patric) leads a rather background role in Kate’s illness, trying to help Kate enjoy the life in which she can lead whilst her condition deteriorates. Though in the proceedings to the ball Kate goes to with the handsome Taylor Ambrose (Thomas Dekker) he glowingly states that Kate is as pretty as a picture. Cameron Diaz plays the role of Sara Fitzgerald with determination and innocence.
In ten things being a film about teenagers in society marriage is not socially acceptable at that age unlike the 16th century. Gil Junger exchanges the marriage to dating to fit in with the context of that era. The rule of dating is still used throughout the film between Kate and Bianca. The relationship between the characters in taming of the shrew is set on the dowry they will receive from the father Baptista showing more attention than the girl’s personalities. Ten things shows the power of the relationship being held by the woman where the men must work in wooing them to become their girlfriend in an equal relationship rather than the wife being a slave.
The movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s is about a Broadway film that highlights a fictional love story in the time of war. A young, beautiful, and lost woman only searching for money in order to escape life with her brother meets a dashing man, who looks like her brother, and oddly enough has the same job. These two immediately become the best of friends and before one knows it they begin developing feelings for one another. Although it may have taken Holly Golightly some time to understand her life parallel to this new love, she finally learns that she fell in love and although scared, knows she will always be happy with Paul Varjak from then on out. Breakfast at Tiffany’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a romantic love story between a woman named Holly Golightly, played by Audrey Hepburn, and Paul Varjak, played by George Peppard.
Although she claims to have been truly in love with the elder brother, and that “the Game was over” only after she has been “trick’d once by that Cheat call’d, LOVE,” (P.51), we can still see Moll’s manipulative nature and her extreme greed, by receiving money from the older brother in exchange to fulfill his sexual favors. This suggests that her attitude towards love and marriage is very emotionless, which is an attitude that she carries forward through many of her future affairs; another example is the affair with her long-lost brother, where she deceives him by saying “I had declar’d my self to be very Poor, so that in a word, I had him fast both ways; and tho’ he might say afterwards he was cheated, yet he could never say that I had cheated him” (P.68). This again shows the dirty ways that Moll often uses to manipulate men and take advantage of them; the reader rarely gets a picture of her as a sympathetic and loving creature, and thus would feel less sympathetic towards her as well. Moll might be cruel and heartless in the way she manipulates people to benefit herself. However, it is always important to
In a conversation with the captain, she learns of the courtship between Orsino and Olivia. She decides to work for Olivia, but since Olivia is mourning, Viola seeks employment at Orsino's household disguised as a man and using the name, Cesario. However, Cesario falls in love with Orsino but fears revealing her identity. Orsino uses Cesario to entice Olivia, but the she falls in love with Cesario. In the second plot, Malvolio works for Olivia and mistreats the other workers.
We see this topic unmistakably apparent in Catherine Earnshaw's forbidden love for Heathcliff because of the society's social ranking. As well, it is also seen in Catherine's daughter, Catherine Linton and the love between her and Hareton Earnshaw. The novel is set at a time when traditional social structure and the relationship of the classes are changing. Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool one day and he comes home with Heathcliff, who was an orphan boy, and they adopt him. Though Heathcliff and Catherine become the best of friends, Hindley does not take kindly to Heathcliff becoming part of the family.
[1] Strachey's interpretation of Tree's performance was probably influenced by Wilde's exposure as a homosexual himself. [edit] Themes Like many of Wilde's plays the main theme is the secrets of the upper-classes: Lord Illingworth discovering that the young man he has employed as a secretary is in fact his illegitimate son, a situation similar to the central plot of Lady Windermere's Fan. Secrets would also affect the characters of The Importance of Being Earnest. [1] In one scene, Lord Illingworth and Mrs. Allonby (whose unseen husband is called Ernest) share the line "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.