In Elizabethan times, women were selected by parents to be given away in marriages. However, Hermia would not marry Demetrius, the person chosen by her father as a marriage partner. Love was not a primary matter of consideration, as wealth or material things of the prospective bridegroom were more desirous to the father. Fathers often favored the birth of a male heir, and were anxious for a marriage so they would have a son (eliz.org pg 1). Hermia defied her father’s wishes, and sought after the love of Lysander.
The main role of any Spartan woman was to produce healthy children who would grow to be the warriors and wives of warriors in the future. Spartan women were not citizens, but enjoyed social privilege and had social and economic freedoms not enjoyed by other women in Greece. Girls were publicly, though informally educated. They were encouraged to undertake exercise. According to Plutarch, Spartan women were encouraged to ‘exercise themselves with wrestling, running, throwing the quoit, and casting the dart, to the ende that the fruit they conceived might, in strong and healthy bodies, take firmer root and find better growth,…they, with this greater vigour, might be able to undergo the pains of childbearing’.
She was born and used as a bargaining chip in the Franco-Austrian Alliance and was of no significance as she was a female and females were seen as slaves who whose duties were to work for men. Right before she could develop and become a real person with aspirations and goals for life, she was forced into marriage with Louis XIV in mere girlhood. Her life was already very limited right from the beginning and there was not much that she could do to change her it. She was thrust into a totally different place and was commanded by circumstances to play an important role in history. Her actions in her youth caused her much unpopularity in the later parts of her life.
However, when those absurd rules are subverted the debate is immediate. At the beginning Thelma and Louise seems to follow all the conventional rules. Thelma is a beautiful married woman who takes care of her house and her husband better than herself even though it is an abusive marriage. Louise is a low wage waitress trying to reach
It is about women living on equal terms with men and not pushed down by law or by culture into a meek role. The practices of 1880’s dictated that women stay in the home, marry, have children and find happiness in doing so. In many ways Alcott battles this convention by creating strong female role models and male characters that support this free will of women. Although some of the characters like Beth may not have shown independence, Meg, Amy and especially Jo showed independence throughout the novel. She is an independent woman who could never be restricted to the household.
A woman could work until she got married, but she was then expected to give work up to become a housewife. • All school lessons were based on Nazi ideas. School textbooks were rewritten and included Nazi versions of German history. Maths problems involved calculations about bombing Poland and killing invalids. Children were taught Nazi beliefs everyday in subjects such as Ideology and Eugenics.
Usually, the woman would be married off to a family of the same status. For example, it would be unacceptable for a wealthy family to marry their son off to a poor family. Most of the time, the woman would meet the man she will spend the rest of her life with, on the day
Hispanic culture has played an important role in building gender identity, there are certain roles placed on boys and girls in accordance with their gender. These gender roles are imposed on children from birth and are taught until eventually they are accepted as absolute truth. Newborn babies are carried out of the hospital in either a pink blanket or a blue blanket depending on gender. Gifts of trucks or dolls are given to toddlers depending on the child's sex. Stories about princesses are read to little girls, while stories of dragons and swords are read to little boys.
In the law, married women were legally dead in its eyes.There were state property laws that prevented married women from having any right. Such as anything they owed were their husbands now, anything to do with earning or receiving money, that money went to their husband (Bonnie and Ruthsdotter). Besides from having no right in society, women also had many limitations on education and the workforce. Women were not allowed to enter many professions including medicine and law. Girls were not given a formal education, and if they wanted to enter a higher education, such as college they would be rejected.
Sparta thrived under its' geographic isolation. Perhaps it was their physical isolation that led to their disdain upon interacting with other societies as well as their rigid social structure of order and discipline. Athens on the other hand, thoroughly depended on their trade and relationships with neighboring societies. Due to their constant sea-to-sea travel, their navy was the best in the world at the time. Athenians were not required to join the military, although they were always given the choice.