Ridiculed Mating: A Short Story

The Wife of Bath displays sexual immorality. Boasting God has granted her the will to love multiple men in her lifetime. Alisoun shows traits of an unmoral woman in the medieval time period. She wishes “to be refreshed half so often” (50). Not only does she declare that God permits her to live her life like this, but also wishes that he would provide more. WOB believes that happiness originates from the satisfaction of men and gives no grief on the pain she delivered to them. “Why should I bother to please them, unless it were for my profit and pleasure?” (216). Pleasing herself with pleasure gives her contentment in life. She loves to have men want and need her as a necessity of their lives.

Wealth and property feature heavily in the wife’s portrayal of marriage and along with the issue of her independence is responsible for many of her marital conflicts. The first three husbands "riche and olde" were married each for "hir land and hir tresoor" then discarded as the Wife looks for other prospects. When one of these husbands tries to restrict the Wife’s spending she refuses to let him be both "maister of my body and of my good" so refuses sexual favours in return for her freedom as she will not become a mere possession. She generalizes that women "love no man that taketh or keepth charge" suggesting an element of independence and individualism in 14th century marriage. The wife resents being controlled; she

Thus, he led her to his tomb and asked her to get in; however, she refused and ran away from him. She ran into a house with a light, but the house had another vampire who wanted to kill her; however, she escaped from the vampire because her soul was clean and holy which saved her (Murgoci 340). The author of Twilight also overlaps the idea of traditional expectations for woman, so Bella is portrayed as a pure young girl. For example, Edward is a dangerous vampire: a killer in the past and can read people’s mind, but he cannot read Bella’s mind because she is pure. This makes him interested in her in the first time he meets her, and he becomes her protector.

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 the poem “The Wife’s Lament” there is a transfer to a female point of view which was rare during times of a patriarchal society. A theme seen is this poem is exile. The wife who faces exile from her lord later reaches a state of bitter unhappiness. The wife expresses her longing for her husband through use of ubi sunt:

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 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.

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.”