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Society and Marriage According to Various Literary Interpretations

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Marriage

In five pages this paper discusses Pride and Prejudice in a consideration of how Jane Austen portrays relationship and marriages. ...

Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee's The Good Marriage

In five pages a textual overview includes the authors' explanation of 4 marriage types. There are no other sources listed....

Supporting Same Sex Marriages

but that indeed is the premise of Americas religious right. While the religious right condemns homosexuality, Christian churches h...

The Symbolic Function of Marriage in Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"

literary works of early America, is awash with allegory and symbolic meaning. Ostensibly, the story tells the tale of a somewhat l...

Gender Attitudes About Sex, Chastity, and Marriage in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Roxana

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

A Doll’s House as a Example of an Oppressive Marriage

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

Failed Marriages in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyzes her emotions. She learns from years of fighting those bottled up emotions that s...

Women in Genesis and the Qu'ran

This four-page paper compares and contrasts women in the Book of Genesis in the Bible and the Qu'ran. Common topics regarding wome...

Lady with Lapdog

and one could well envision how Chekhovs character, Gurov, may well have married for something other than love. "He had been talke...

Women's Freedom and the Detriment of Marriage

is exemplified by the nuclear family that leaves women unfulfilled. It is ultimately this missing part of life--or the lack of fre...

Same Sex Marriages Should Not Be Allowed

decision to allow gay marriages, a new Pew Center poll shows 59 percent of Americans oppose such marriages, thats up from 55 perce...

Customs of Chinese Marriage Since 1949 Introduction of Communism

from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

Should There be Legalization of Same Sex Marriages?

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...

Marriages Between People of the Same Sex

in a same-sex marriage. The definition of marriage states that it is a union of two people of the opposite sex. Given...

Rogerian Argument in Support of Gay Marriages

of marriage and those who are against same-sex marriages argue that this issue will only serve to erode the institution even furth...

Supporting Gay Marriage

family rights" (Farrell 130; Stacey and Biblarz 159). In September of 2000, the Dutch parliament followed suit by also granting e...

Religious Rituals of Judaism and Christianity

offers the marriage contract, and the woman accepts: this is a contractual obligation which can only be broken by death or divorce...

Footwear's Evolution

highest possible degree of comfort and hygiene. It has to allow for environmental requirements and for the climate in which it is ...

Competing Visions of Thomas Morton and William Bradford in 'The May Pole of Merry Mount' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

setting for Nathaniel Hawthornes 1835 short story, "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." Bradford took a rather dim view of the festivit...

Evolution of Women's Roles in the Islamic Tradition

in 7th century Arabia" (Time, 2001; 50). For example, while many pagan societies of the time buried unwanted female infants alive,...

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...

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...

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 ...

US Same Sex Marriage History

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

Gay Marriage Debate

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

Argument Against Sanctioning Gay Marriage

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

2 Papers on Romantic Poets

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

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...