Ridiculed Mating: A Short Story

To ease into her poem, Harwood creates a vivid image for the reader about a zookeeper’s daughter coming daily with their “special bowl.” This refers to how the lion has the notion that the woman is forming a relationship with him through their mealtime together. In reference to this, the lion, which is the man, believes he is caged due to his belief that the zookeeper refuses to accept his feelings towards his daughter. Contextually, during Harwood’s time, women were expected marry men who were of their social class and who were believed could take care of them. Assuming the man’s persona is drudging and he is seen as filth in relation to depicting him like a lion, the daughter cannot marry or be seen with him because it may affect or shun her reputation. The poet chooses to include the connotation of a “special bowl” instead of explicitly stating how they share a meal together to signify how the man and woman are forced to hide their feelings until they are alone together at mealtimes. She leaves no doubt in the reader that the man is feeling this way because she refers to their meal as their “love feast,” highlighting how interconnected these two people are with one another. Furthermore, the man’s predicament refers back to Harwood’s time in that women were expected to act in a certain prim manner, and to be a lover to a man in a status below her would taint her reputation

In (Matthew 6:6 NIV), Jesus explains the merits of praying to the lord God and the reward of inner peace, “But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret: and your father who sees in secret will reward you.” It is through this conversation with God that Christians pursue peace in their lives. Prayer can either be private or communal, spontaneous prayer is one way that charismatic communities can come closer to God. The act of prayer allows believers to have a personal conversation with God; it alleviates stress attributed to the monotony of everyday life. Besides prayer, meditation is another way of attaining inner peace, it is an ancient practice within the Christian tradition, which has undertaken a recent revival, a global group that reaffirms the concept of praying and meditating for inner peace is Taizé. Not as popular as prayer and meditation, Lectio Divina, generally known as bible studies is a way for Christians to feel connected to God and to finally attain inner peace. The studying of the sacred scriptures on a day to day basis and reflecting on prayers also maintain a continual connection with God. It is vital to maintain equilibrium between prayer and service, whereby an individual fathoms the notion ‘ora et labora’, in order to equally partake in both prayer, and the concept of action whereby ora develops inner peace, which is mirrored through the

In these lines, the Wife presents that men should be submissive and acquiescent to their wives. This idea can be observed through the Wife’s fifth marriage to Jankien. Jankien, a misogynistic and dominant figure, loudly recites the words of the “cursed book” (279) as the Wife portrays it. Out of irritation, the Wife

In medieval times love was very tricky and confusing. If a women or a man were to die within that marriage, he or she would have to have a widowhood of two years. As shown in “The wife of Bath’s prologue and tale” she had been married to five men. During her marriage with her fourth husband she had met her fifth husband, but she was still married to the fourth one. One day when she was taking a walk with the fifth husband she told him if she were to be widowed she would marry him.

During the prologue of The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the wife discusses her thoughts on roles between males and females within relationships. She discusses this idea by hitting on two different points of view, power and religious ideology. The wife talks about all five of her marriages and how she gained power and control within those relationships by using her body;

It is not only required for a vampire to sustain themselves but it is what fuels their sexual desire. As Louis in Rice’s Interview with the Vampire puts it, “for vampires it is the ultimate experience” (Rice, 30). When you think of it, blood is quite a taboo thing. People faint at the sight of it, it’s associated with gross things. We avoid it at all costs and when it does appear we get rid of it straight away. Just as the relationship between a Vampire and a human is taboo.

The discussion of the Wife’s five husbands describes her evolving role as a woman and how she overcame the most ridiculous obstacles to maintain this idea or illusion of marriage. The Wife’s depiction of her marriages was that three were good and two were bad. The initial marriages were to older rich men where she kept up this idea of marriage in order to receive money, but was not faithful by

In this works the use of marriage although used for alternate purposes is given different meaning. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, the old woman wants “the thing that most of all Women desire”, and is willing to do anything to get it; in “The Flea” the lover wants to lay with his mistress, and will say anything to convince her, even that they are “married” after being bitten by a flea.

Historical vampire stories are related to stereotypical gender roles to teach virtue to girls. Besides that, contemporary vampires are connected to the world today in order to embrace stereotypical gender roles. Vampires are supernatural strong, while humans are weak. This idea is shown in Twilight through the vampire, Edward, who carries all positive characteristics of an ideal traditional man even though his appearance looks the same as a modern man. He is fast, strong, brave, aggressive and protective. He saves his girl friend, Bella several times. For example, when Bella’s friend accidentally drove the car toward her, Edward moved very fast to her and pushed against the

In the Middle Ages premarital sex was considered as immoral and a sin. The author brings to attention the ancient customs that condemns illegitimate relationships. As his mistress quote would” be grievously punished: tortured by the sword or sold into slavery in another land” (De France 144). This showed how greatly the wrongdoing was taken, just like a crime would have.

The insight of chapter four “The Mating Game” Anderson discusses with his audience is briefly the interactions and relationships between black men and black women based off the code of the streets. This chapter also highlighted the relationship style and stability between the two based on power, sex, privilege, and the code of the street. According to Anderson, the code is fundamentally male, making women appear incidental. Anderson stresses the advantages and disadvantages of black men and women’s relationships based off of the street code influences as well as societal social constructions of gender roles. So supposedly girls having to been blessed with having the dream of the “good life” and in order to have that good life, it is necessary

River knew the questions would come. Shadow was as excited as he was to have finally found a Mate. A bloodline that had been lost to them for thousands of years, and now he knew why. He thought how ingenious to name them after a Sun Goddess. “Yes, Shadow, I got a read on her. Only she seems to know nothing of what she is. Their bloodline will no longer be hidden from us.”

The reason that the woman and her husband married was to make peace instead of love; however, they still loved each other after marrying and swore that nothing could separate them excepted the death (Anonymous 114). For me, the husband abandoned his wife because of his relative’s hostility to her and the principle of the feudal society at that time (Anonymous 114). I do not agree with that action. If he loved her, he had to trust her and protect her. Besides that, the women in the society of Old English were the

The example of the adulterous husband of the fourth princess is particularly interesting as his debasement is not the princess’s doing but his own. He degraded himself by performing grotesque behaviour to make his wife suffer. He staged “mock” marriages, here “mock” is a pun representing forgery and mockery of marriage; mockery being showcased through the mentally disturbed girls wearing shroud and holding a bunch of carrots as bouquet, with mentally disturbed girls which further degraded the sacredness of the religious institution: Never the less he soon got his equally grotesque punishment for his horrendous

This is another compelling book about seduction after Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference (2014) from Di Giovine and Picard. Dynamics of relations between pilgrimage and seduction are scrutinized elaborately in the book. It is obvious that we owe too much to Arnold van Gennep (1960) and Turners (1978). However, it seems there is still something left to be explained properly. While Turners grasp pilgrimage within one overarching discourse, for instance, contemporary forms of pilgrimage and worship necessitate drawing a framework which permits different discourses to operate. Therefore, in the chapters where multiple discourses are demonstrated, the authors choose to build on Eade and Sallnow (1991). The multiplicity