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Love, Marriage, and Women in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

William Shakespeare's Comic Take on Marriage

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

Ancient Greek Woman's Life

Greece, 2004). Eleni supposed her husband would do the same, but given that she had never met him she couldnt be sure. She was d...

3 Religious Issues

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

Caucasian and African American Interracial Marriages

in order to claim her white heritage she would essentially have to have her mother along to prove she was also Caucasian (Hubbynet...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Family and Marriage

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

Marriage and Sociology

The primary reason for dating, though it is strictly on a subconscious and biological level, is to find and obtain a mate for the ...

Tutorial on Learning Decisions and Life Experiences

this case, the spouse can also learn about why men cheat (either by talking with other people who have gone through similar situat...

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

Comparative Analysis of Married Heterosexuals and Married Homosexuals

divorce rates should make a statement about the fate of the traditional family structures. Most statistics state that one in two m...

United States and Thailand Laws Regarding Marriage

statutes that address marriage, such as the 1996 Federal Defense of Marriage Act, which states that the word "marriage means only ...

Gay Lifestyle's Socioeconomic Costs

is done. Some might be curious about homosexual sex. In part, these explorations are encouraged by media. Jenkins (2005) charges f...

Relationships, Female Dominance, and 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

Sung Period Women of China

writer, for this, relied primarily on both pictorial representations of the period (through highly stylized paintings) and writing...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Themes of Love, Marriage, and Money

of fancy, at least in her imagination. Austen states, "She was sensible and clever; but eager in everything: her sorrows, her joys...

Marriage and Personal Goals

without having been asked to do so, providing a reward of some type for this, or simply recognizing the effort and the initiative ...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Marriage

When he comes back out he says "Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (Ibsen). From this simple beginning we alre...

Legal Memorandum on Polygamy

and Ms. Evans are members of a fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints (Mormons); this sect believ...

Ethics and a Medical Malpractice Case Study

However, this feeble attempt at legal protection goes directly against another California law - termed a crime of sexual exploitat...

Gays in the Military

if the "dont ask, dont tell" policy is maintained. Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, for example, actually supported Obama d...

Chopin and Glaspell: Marriage and Society

in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century...

Marriage in William Wycherley’s Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife

best understood within the context of how many English couples regarded marriage during this time. Marriages were not love matche...

Gay Married Couples, Benefits, and Rights

States remains steadfastly conservative and downright discriminatory regarding this issue. It violates the Fourteenth Amendment o...

TV Situation Comedies Home Improvement and Everybody Loves Raymond

love one another. They give each other things, and try to understand one another as best they can. The audience feels that they do...

Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage

a shift in thinking. I suspect that when someone (in the West at any rate) hears the word "marriage" they automatically see it as...

Power in Correspondence Relationships

itself is set up to favor men. There is nothing new in this and to a large extent its true. Women still earn significantly less th...

Women’s Rights and Islam: Sunni vs Shia

to confront the first Caliph of the Islamic nation. The Shiites, in contrast, felt like this position was destined to be filled w...

Analysis of an Editorial

argued that some cultures allow for a couple of the same sex to live as though a man and woman. Marriage, in the eyes of Violette,...