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Allowed To Marry Arranged Marriage
1,395 wordsMarriage customs and rites in the Arabia Marriage, is the oldest contract between two individuals even before Islam. Nowadays; with all the social and economic frustration it is not an easy decision to take. For a person to decide that he is ready to marry he has to choose between; if he wants an arranged marriage or he will marry a girl whom he chose. What is meant by arranged marriage is marriage that is arranged between two families without even the couples having seen each other yet, and in ...
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Female Infanticide Male Children
461 wordsThe bias against females in India is related to the fact that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields. In this way sons are looked to as a type of insurance. With this perspective, it becomes clearer that the high value given to males decreases the value given to females. " (Marina Porras, "Female Infanticide and Foeticide." ) The problem is also intimately tied to the institution of dowry, in which the family of a prospective bride mu...
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Scene 1 Line Taming Of The Shrew
1,783 wordsExamine the different ways in which Shakespeare presents the attitude towards marriage in the play, The Taming of the Shrew. The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and it shares many essential characteristics with his other romantic comedies, such as Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Nights Dream. These characteristics include light-hearted and slapstick humour, disguises and deception and a happy ending in which most of the characters come out satisfied. The pla...
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Catherine De Bourgh Love For Elizabeth
1,092 words... run away with my feelings. This appears not only humorous to the reader but also to Elizabeth who has realised the futility of Mr. Collins proposal, The idea continued, Mr. Collins now proceeds to list his reasons for marrying amongst which love is not mentioned once, he says, My reasons... parish. This line is fascinating in my opinion and has a certain edge of irony as Mr. Collins lacks perception yet is worried about the publics perception of him. This makes him appear all the more pompou...
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Arranged Marriages Hindu Religion
2,239 words... ation. During the train journey back, he beat his head with his fists, and moaned aloud about the dowry and the wedding expenses while everyone, all of them strangers-women with babies and baskets of food, men reading newspapers or playing cards or discussing business-turned to listen with the keenest of interest, throwing significant looks at Uma who kept her head wrapped up in her sari in an effort to screen her shame. (Desai: 1998: 94) Papas behaviour is typical of the Indian male whose p...
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Act Two Scene Act One Scene
527 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew gives us a couple of very distinct variations in ways that fathers raise their daughters and the way fathers raise their sons. One of the earliest examples is with regard to male and female education. Early in the play we are introduced to Lucentio who has arrived in Padua with his servant Tranio to haply institute a course of learning and ingenious studies... (act one, scene one, line eight). Lucentio seek to find an education that could not be received in Pisa but only ...
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Treatment Of Women Witch Hunts
2,346 wordsWomens Role in two different religious: Islam and Hinduism A drastic distinction between the roles of the male and female exists in all of history's modern human societies. Women have grown to accept, not without resentment though, the male-dominated atmosphere of the world. Because people use religious doctrine to define their life styles, religious scriptures in both the East and the West seem to condone, even encourage, the unequal treatment of women. Now we try to compare two different relig...
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1 St Ed Marriage Ceremony
1,705 words... marriage, she pauses. The questions repeated three times and it is only at the last time that she will say yes. To make the bridegroom wait for the brides answer is to signify that it is the husband who seeks the wife and is anxious to have her and not the other way around. During the service female relatives of the couple (mainly the bride) hold over the couples head a fine scarf or other delicate fabrics like silk. Two different actions take place at the same time. Two pieces of crystalliz...
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Violence Against Women Women In India
1,561 wordsSilenced by their culture large populations of women in India tolerate abuse and subsequent death because they have provided insufficient dowry. In a culture that is male dominated women are raised to be servants to their husbands often arranged to marry a man that they have never met. Women that are beaten or just unhappy must suppress their feelings to keep their husbands blissful or face shame and be turned away by their own families. Indian women? s household must pay a dowry for the privile...
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King Lear Daughter Cordelia
5,326 wordsFebruary 24, 1997 ENLU 1000. 02 Professor S. Fox The Deception in King Lear William Shakespeare's play King Lear is a play full of deceit, betrayal and meaningless promises. This becomes evident in the first few lines. We first learn of the empty words of Goneril and Regan as well as their hatred for their father, King Lear. This becomes the center of the play and also leads to the madness that the king suffers from. The first words that Goneril speaks are totally empty and are the complete oppo...
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Scene 2 Lines Lear And Gloucester
683 wordsThroughout the first Act of King Lear there is one overwhelming topic, which can not be overlooked. That is to say that the two main families in this play, Lears and Gloucester's, are both following basically a parallel plot that is developing at different plains of existence. Those plains exist on an aristocratic ladder, Lears family at the top and Gloucester's family at the bottom. There are different characters and minor diversities in each family, but at the basic level of events that occur,...
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Violence Against Women Works Cited
1,764 wordsSilenced by their culture large populations of women in India tolerate abuse and subsequent death because they have provided insufficient dowry. In a culture that is male dominated women are raised to be servants to their husbands often arranged to marry a man that they have never met. Women that are beaten or just unhappy must suppress their feelings to keep their husbands blissful or face shame and be turned away by their own families. Indian womens household must pay a dowry for the privilege...
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Indian Society Middle Class
659 wordsCulture is the Dowry Dowry Culture is the enduring behavior ideas attitudes and tradition shared by a large group of people and transmit it to one generation to the next. India is one of those countries that has strong influence by culture. The custom of dowry, long entrenched in India s male dominant society, has attained alarming proportions during the last few decades. There is hardly a day when the cries of dowry victims are not echoed by the media. One day we read that the bride was burned ...
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Jane Austen Catherine De Bourgh
2,355 wordsExplore the social institution of marriage in Austen's society in a comparison of the proposals of Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett In this essay, I will attempt to answer the above question by going through a number of stages. I will firstly gather a detailed knowledge of what marriage was like in Austen? s society. From this I will be able to apply my findings to the proposals of Mr. Darcy and Mr. Collins. Whilst doing this, I will compare and contrast the two proposals and look ...
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Three Or Four Religion Of Islam
1,715 wordsSexual mores are sexual customs or conventions regarded essential to or a characteristic of a community. I believe it would be interesting to write about the sexual mores of two different than Christianity. In this paper will focus on sexual roles of women and marriage in the Hindu and Islamic religions. Hinduism is the main religion and social system of India. This religion includes the belief in recreation, the worship of several gods and the caste system as the basis of society. Throughout ti...
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