During that time, the expected role of men and women are different, men were expected to be a bread winner and women just expected to be a house wife. However, Ibsen believes these roles limit individual freedom and his play “A Doll’s House” explores the belief that duty to self in more important, and must come before duty to others. The beliefs in 19thcentury and values are different from now. In that time, women’s personal growth and freedom are limited. At that time, a woman’s life is just like passing from her father’s hand to her husband’s.
“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.” Jane ch 17 -Charles Bingley- Easily influenced and a nice man. Darcy’s friend who move to Netherfield, and left Netherfield. “If a women is partial to a man, and does not endevour to conceal it, he must find it out.” Elizabeth ch 6 - Mrs. Bennet- obstructive and foolish. Elizabeth’s mother who is obsessed with husbands for her daughters. Attempting to push Elizabeth into a marriage with Mr. Collins.
In Taming Of The Shrew, Baptista the father, wants to marry off his two daughters Bianca and Katharina. Katharina is the eldest, and Baptista’s rule was that the eldest had to marry before the youngest. Bianca was extremely pretty and had a lovely personality, while Katharina had an ugly demeanour which nobody wanted to go near and looks which were easily outmatched by Bianca’s. (Lucentio, a person who loves Bianca dearly finds Petruchio, a man who just wants to marry and he goes out on a will saying he will “tame” Katharina.) And of course there was also the large dowry that Baptista gave to the husband of Katharina.
“It’s not enough to take my Bessie without a dowry. You must pay me yet.” Pg 47. Reb takes it upon himself to make sure his girls marry a wealthy and a good young man. By the time Mashah, Bessie, and Fania, get married off and are not happy, Sara decides she wants more for herself. Sara is not going to let her father abuse her like he did the other girls.
The green light at the end of Daisy’s of all of dock represents Gatsby’s dream of being reunited with Daisy through his accumulation of wealth. Unfortunately, this desire lies within the premise that wealth and social status equals happiness. Unfortunately, he participates in criminal activities and unsavory people he must collaborate with in order to obtain his wealth to achieve his dream. I also believe that Gatsby understands that Daisy is devoted to acquiring money. This is confirmed by Gatsby saying “her voice is full of money,” her obsession with money suggests why she stays in her miserable marriage with Tom Buchanan (115).
A delighted Tevye informs Tzeitel of her upcoming marriage, with a wealthy, and honest hard worker. However, Tzeitel’s passionate dislike of Lazar Wolf, creates a barrier for her tradition, customs and preservation of family lineage. Whilst she acknowledges her father’s
The Theme of Conformity In The Great Gatsby by, F. Scott Fitzgerald, conformity is brought on by Daisy. In those days, men were still seen as superior to women. She mentioned that she felt it was better to be a beautiful fool and get the man with all the wealth, then to be intelligent. She pretends to be a picture perfect wife even when she is completely unhappy with her life and ends up forgetting whom she really was before, therefore conforming to society. We could see that she has attributes that go beyond what everyone else sees.
In the following paragraphs all of these arguments will be explored as pertaining to certain couples in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Those couples being the following Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet as well as Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, and the Bennets and Mr. Collins and Charlotte Lucas. Each couple in Pride and Prejudice had a motive for marrying, whether or not that was the right reason remains to be seen. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet met as young and hormonal adults in a repressed society. “Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in the marriage put an end to all real affection for her, ”(Austen 202).
For a 21st century reader it is easy to interpret the two themes as divided as it is what we have been socialised to do, however at the time Austen was writing Pride and Prejudice, in the 18th century, it was socially conditioned that marriage and money were inextricably linked. Women were omitted from the entail system which meant they could not inherit their family’s wealth which left them vulnerable and in need of a husband. For those people who read Jane Austen’s novels for her flare of the romantic it is easy to conclude that Jane Austen championed love as being more important than money. However if this is the case, why do both Jane and Elizabeth Bennett marry suitors that are deemed to be wealthy? To explore the tension between love and money even further the main concern in the other two marriages in the novel revolve around money and fortune.
Of course at first we can think that this text will be about love and passion with happy end, without any interesting facts, but in reality it isn’t so. The theme of this story is an eternal opposition between money and love. The round characters of this story are Old Anthony and his son Richard, the static characters are Aunt Ellen, Miss Lantry and Kelly. The main idea of this story is wealth (money – old Athony) and love (young Richard). As we know everything in our life depends on freak of chance, but old Anthony thinks that money can decide all problems of his life.