Petruchio's Relationships

In marriages, women’s lives changed significantly. As soon as a marriage became official, the woman would be worth much less than her husband, and it was known publicly. Unlike today, divorce was not an option for a woman in an unhappy marriage; she was forced to stick with the marriage she committed to in the beginning. Though these women were rather ignorant and dependent, they were not entirely to blame, Victorian men constantly demanded each of these qualities in a woman. Altogether, women were worth very little during the Victorian era and they were often taken for granted (Swisher 178, 179,

Even though the story line is about love and relationships, the fact remains that the time periods as well as the idea of relationship and marriage are very different from Shakespeare’s time and that of the 1990’s. In both the film and play, Kat Stratford and Katherina Minola make changes to better accommodate their partners. For example –Katherina changes her shrewish attitude to better suit Petruchio, and – Kat changes her negative attitude ,and same goes with Patrick, meeting half way, while changing things she dislikes about him as well. “Have you seen the unwashed miscreants that go to that school?” is a direct quote from the movie supporting Kat and her negative attitude. Walter Stratford is the single and overprotective dad to Kat and her lovely younger sister Bianca, and in his desire to not allow Bianca to date until Kat does.

These characteristics are seen in most of the failed relationships between characters. Self concern relates to Mr. Collins and his relationship attempts with Elizabeth and Jane Bennet. When purposing to Jane he tells her “it will add greatly to my happiness” (103), signaling a self centered desire versus a fulfilled love. Infatuation is seen between Bingley and Jane. Bingley brings up her beauty many times but does not know much about her.

Time shows that men affect women and make them to be what they want them to be using their physical dominance and power. It all started when a girl was born. She should see that the world gives a big opportunity for her to make serious decisions and to build her happy life. In real life, it was not like that for many years.

Power relations Taking into consideration what had been said about representation of genders in The Big Bang Theory, I would like to discuss the relations of power between male and female characters. Although we can say that there are stereotypes about both men and women in this show, there is one fact that puts male characters in the privileged position over the female ones: the female characters always seem to be defined by their relationships with their male partners. For example, as I already mentioned, the character of Bernadette seems to be liberated from all the sexist and stereotypical views, but at the same time, she gets married to the most sexist characters, Howard Wolowitz, who before their marriage tried very hard to be a womanizer, seeing women purely as objects of pleasure, discriminating them based on their looks. As Rachel Redfern wrote: "Howard played the role of a disgusting, probably should be on a sex offender list somewhere, horny aerospace engineer. His goal was to get laid and so he lied to women, hired prostitutes, chased them down in a park, and was in general, completely repugnant for laughs".

Today, many people witness the discrimination against one another, including the discrimination against females; though F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote “The I.O.U.” in the 1920s, many females relate to the way the men in the story treat the females. Fitzgerald created a story that focused on a publisher who aimed to publish the book “The Aristocracy of the Spirit World” knowing that the book would bring in money. Throughout the story, the publisher’s main goal is to earn as much money as he can; he even goes to such lengths as to make a man disappear for the next ten years. Though his journey to make money, he faces the problem of the character of his book being alive and the story being false. Many readers of this story, focus on the main character and money; however, they overlook the way the publisher discriminates almost all the females mentioned in the story.

It is a complex book set in two parts – the early 60’s and the late 60’s in Nigeria – spanning over the Nigerian Civil war. Gender is deeply explored in the book – within and outside of war. In the book educated women were seen as spoilt by older generations and women who could not have children were ostracized. Baby boys were given a higher value than baby girls, and during the war women were used as sexual objects. However, the book showed women in a strong light – taking control of the injustices set upon them.

With this quote, the teenage brain makes choices with consequences, look for new sensations, and seek out social and emotional information. During the second scene of Act II, Romeo and Juliet make the decision to marry each other hours after meeting at the Capulet party. Romeo seeks out Friar Lawrence to ask, “but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us today” (Shakespeare 410). Here Romeo is asking Friar Lawrence to marry them that same day, even though he and Juliet met the night before.

One last aspect she focuses on is the idea of social and individual power. She investigates these traits particularly in her last novel Daniel Deronda. In this narration, women seem to hold a lot of power. Gwendolen is beautiful and smart, but also particularly aware of the fact that the only way to have a role in society is through marriage. However, this does not stop her from trying to be independent and resist to an already written fate.

Phaedra and Medea were both sympathetic victims, though Phaedra earned more sympathy. Throughout both plays and many others within, the alleged general faultiness yet calculated cruelty of women are noted often by both male and female characters many times, including Phaedra and Medea. Since women only had the ability to be respected for few things, for example, the ability to bear children and keep a husband, it follows that acting out of the norm could have severe consequences for them and their societal standing. The imbalance of power in Greek and Roman society in both Hippolytus and Medea has created an outlet of seemingly disproportionate revenge committed by women, in response to their oppression. However, it is not truly disproportionate if one considers that a woman who had never been able to fight back or speak up in her life will one day respond with a collective blow to the patriarchy when it is vital for

In Hurston’s novel, Janie starts as a young

Comp II MW 2:10 LOVE VS LUST Thought our lives we all tend to need time away from the people we love most. Some people find that freedom or fulfillment through sexuality while others find it through absences. Adultery is usually wrong but in rare instance it can sometimes be justified. In the storm The Storm it’s understood that two characters that have an affair during a storm but after the affair they return to their normal ways of life. Adultery is every hard to defend because in most cultures or religions it’s socially or morally unacceptable, but The Storm challenges that position.

The media has even begun to promote body positivity, self love, and more gender neutral representation of women. Television shows such as “Orange is the New Black” and “The Fosters” help defy the stereotype of heterosexuality that young women are exposed to, allowing LGBT women to feel less ostracized due to their lack of presence in the media. Functionalism is working to tear down the ideological walls that surround binary gender identity. Now more than ever women are rising up against the status quo and are establishing themselves as the head of their household, earning higher wages, and choosing not to have children. For the first time in history male homemakers are becoming prevalent, and

The point Jones’ maybe about misogyny being “the inevitable result” is directly reflected by the relationship Hamlet had with Ophelia and Gertrude. The lack of a strong women role in Hamlet, or even a women that loved Hamlet produced a misogynistic mindedness. He only had two women in his life to was “inevitable” who collective destroyed his view of women. If Hamlet would of had a more model mother or a love interest with a woman who loved him back, he wouldn’t have been misogynistic. The result of his mother being a heartless whore and Ophelia being a complete pushover and coward lead to Hamlet hating all women.

Laden with innuendos, ironies, and intricate wordplay, Shakespeare’s plays are rarely what they initially appear to be. Rather, it takes several readings to be able to barely scratch the surface of all the possible interpretations. Moreover, not everything is black or white, but possible variations of gray. This topsy-turvy approach is encapsulated in the overall outline of Shakespearean comedy, which are typically set during a period of festivities, such as the festivals A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night are appropriately named after. An average festival is usually comprised of chaos through the reversal of the traditional order and rejection of social norm.