Blanche is driven by sexual desire but is condemned by it for being a whore. She is promiscuous but isn’t supposed to be. Since she doesn’t fit the stereotype, she lies to herself that she is still a Southern Belle. When we first meet Blanche she appears to be a respectable lady. We can see this in Williams’ choice of costume colour,
In addition, Laertes suggests that his sister should remain “chaste” as she would lose her honour if she lost her virginity to Hamlet before marriage, and she would become worthless. In fact, Laertes believes Ophelia should “fear it”; fear Hamlet, as she is “in the morn and liquid dew of youth”, and henceforth more easily corrupted. Ophe! lia’s brother tells her that even “The chariest maid is prodigal enough if she unmask her beauty to the moon.” Effectively, Ophelia could be the purest girl on earth, but if she allowed somebody to share her body before marriage, this would be enough to destroy her purity forever. Finally, Laertes shares with Ophelia his belief that “Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.” Ultimately, Laertes thinks that young people rebel but will only hurt
When Benedick says he does not like the dish, he is being disrespectful not only to Beatrice but to the people of the time. He also states that no woman will be let in to his perfectness until the woman is perfect herself. Benedick loves teasing people but will not accept the fact that people tease him. Shakespeare illustrates benedick in more detail which allows the audience to understand what type of character
Later on in the play, Hermia tries to runaway with Lysander to his aunt’s home, where the Athenian law does not apply. This would allow them to be together. Subsequently, Hermia decides she would rather become a nun. Than marry Demetrius. This gives insight on the fact that Hermia loves Lysander substantially, to surrender her virginity.
Even in a story which purports to be filled with moral values, such as Homer’s Odyssey. Judging by modern standards of moral and ethical treatment of women, Homer’s Odyssey is insanely sexist. As thousands of advertisements and magazines will tell you, the worst thing a lady can be is ugly. After all, good witches are beautiful, but if you’re a bad witch, God help your complexion. Women in Homer's Odyssey are judged mainly, if not exclusively by their physical appearance.
Firstly, Deception is a major theme within the play. Despite Richard’s physical deformity he was still charismatic and could effectively play with people’s emotions. Richard, after killing Anne’s husband seeks to gain her hand in marriage but was cursed by her saying "Never hung poison on a fouler toad. Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.” In spite of her obvious dislike towards him, he successfully wins her over by falsely proclaiming his love for her saying “Your beauty was the cause of that effect; Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep.” The diction used in this scene highlights Richard’s deceiving skills.
Lysander and Demetrius are constantly ‘warring’ over their love for Hermia or Helena, and do not observe the rules of fair play. Puck’s ‘love’ for mischief caused him to disregard fair treatment of the mortals, and the use of love juice in general could be considered unfair, however, without it, there would be no ‘happy ending’ to the play. The origin of the ‘war’ between Oberon and Titania is Oberon’s jealousy of Titania’s love for a mortal boy, whom she stole from and Indian King. This storyline links to the quote ‘All is fair in love and war’ in multiple ways. Firstly, it was unfair of Titania to steal the Indian King’s son.
The reader could interpret from her article that the marriage Apollonius had was one that would have been honored, even though the couple split up by tragedy. Heyworth starts off her article by stating that the story of Apollonius is part of an excerpt with the title “MS 201”. The story of Apollonius describes a marriage where a daughter of a king gets to choose her husband. But the marriage did not last because the husband Apollonius was led to believe that his wife died from giving birth on a ship, yet in reality she does not die and Apollonius is unaware of this. The decision then comes of what to do now?
Lady Bracknell would rather have Gwendolen marry a man that knows nothing, rather than a man that knows everything. The love between the two couples is absolutely ridiculous and is based on nonsense. For example, Cecily says to Algernon: “It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends, on can endure with equanimity” (Earnest 54). According to Miss Prism those who are unmarried simply live for pleasure and that marriage is not a pleasurable arrangement.
Brabantio's initial reaction is to infer that Othello has used some sort of magic to enchant his daughter, because, in his opinion, she would clearly not love such a foul creature as the Moor (Shakespeare act 1 sc. 2, lines 80-90). Iago's intentions in telling Brabantio of Othello and Desdemona's relationship were to cause Brabantio to get angry at Othello, because Iago was dissatisfied at not being made Othello's lieutenant. Brabantio's reaction allows the reader to understand two very important points: Brabantio is very racist, and Iago is very clever because he used Brabantio's easily-provoked racism to make him jump to conclusions right away about Othello. If Brabantio owned no biased feelings toward