Elizabeth’s friend Charlotte marries so she can be independent of her family and in control of ‘her home and her housekeeping’. She has a completely unromantic view of marriage. She thinks that a happy marriage is ‘entirely a matter of chance’. She believes that a relationship based on first impressions is just as likely to succeed as one based on understanding and love. Her disagreement with Elizabeth over this idea reveals another reason for marrying.
Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest mocks Victorian love and marriage through different characters in 19th century England, which is wittingly displayed using satire. Aristocrats such as Gwendolen and her mother Lady Bracknell both hold contrasting views, which includes what they feel is required in a life partner. Lady Bracknell strongly believes marriage is just a financial agreement and will not let her daughter marry a man who has no status in society. On the other hand, Gwendolen believes love triumphs over wealth, but Wilde seems to change her meaning of love. So is marriage really a result of love or can it be possible that it is simply just a business contract?
In this regard Mr. Collins is a true production of this society. He wants to “make amends” to the Bennets girl for the entail on the property by marrying one of them. It is very ridiculous that in such a matter of marriage, he is considering only the “property” not his own prudence whether the Bennet girl is fit for him or the marriage will be a proper one. When we look at another character of this novel namely Charlotte Lucas, we see that she is also going on the same path of the society. The union between Charlotte and Mr. Collins is a good example of this marriage that brought about entirely for economic reasons.
Charlotte's acceptance of Mr. Collins’ proposal is a prime example; “marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want” (p105)1. Austen makes use of Charlotte's character to illustrate the social norms for women of the time. Charlotte's reaction to Collins' proposal is cleverly juxtaposed with Elizabeth's own values and more romantic views on marriage, as she is offered his proposal first; “You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world that could make you so”(p92)2. Elizabeth's concerns are predominately her overall happiness and mental wellbeing, as opposed to her anxieties about her future financial security. These oppositions of values offer the reader a chance to balance their own views on the sanctity of marriage.
Relevance Statement Marriage is a sacred bond which not only involves the couple but also the two families of the bride and the bridegroom respectively. Be it arrange marriage or love marriage, marriage is nothing different for both. Love marriage vs arrange marriage is just a question prevalent in minds of married couples who are not satisfied or are scared to live with an unknown partner for whole life. IV. Preview of Main Points Some of the benefits of arranged marriage are that : (a) It is more stable and successful.
What a wife it would be When a reader first looks at Brady’s essay one might think it was written by a man. However after reading the first paragraph the reader will realize that the author is indeed a woman and may be confused as to why the title is “Why I Want A Wife”. Brady gives a reasonable argument as to the unequal views on the roles of the husband and wife. By listing the many examples of a wife’s responsibilities, she hopes to sway a woman or man’s feelings and encourages them to perhaps modify the usual tradition of marriage and companionship. The audience she has chosen would most likely be women or married couples.
We see examples of both these roles of marriage through various characters within Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen uses the characters in Pride and Prejudice to emphasize the theme of the importance of marriage, and its dual abillity to both preserve the established social structure and act as a bridge between the ranks of society. Marriage in the upper class was primarily for maintaining and increasing wealth, and preserving the status-quo of a wealthy, high class family. Those in the higher class were excessively prideful - or as Mary would put, vain--towards their position in society, and did not appreciate the ease with which one of lower status could come to be wealthy through marriage. The prestigious members of the upper class generally had little respect towards the lower class with less money, and didn’t wish for them to damage, or even contaminate a family’s reputation through marriage to a person of status high above their own.
Loisel has in her life, such as, the relationship she has with herself, with her husband, and with her “friend”, Mme. Forestier. The fake relationship she has with herself is the main reason for all the troubles she goes through now and later in her life. She thinks she belongs with those of the upper-class. Because of this, she sacrifices her husband’s happiness for her own dreams of being accepted into a higher society.
Even just classifying these men like this is kinda crazy. She launches her argument against those who might claim that a once-widowed woman ought to become a nun. The Wife's argument moves on to be a defense of marriage, period. She insists that though those who choose to marry might not be as spiritually perfect as people who remain chaste all their lives, they are still fulfilling God's commandments. The major feature of marriage, for the Wife, is the marriage debt, or sex, which seems to be why she's so strongly in favor of marriage.
The author portrays the tendency of people getting used to others desires and the norms made by society instead of focusing on their own. Lorca presents opposing points of view in Blood Wedding. For example, the Bride feels restrained due to the fact that she is forced into marrying a man she does not love and let alone be isolated away from society perpetually. In Blood Wedding, gender roles are reinforced in a certain way in order to establish distinct feelings among the characters forcing them to make wrong decisions which will later result in a tragedy. For instance, the Bride and Leonardo run away due to the love they feel toward each other; Later on, the reader learns that Leonardo and the Groom have killed each other.