...In our society today, there are specific qualities that make up a real man. These qualities are what women look for in a husband. Sir Percy is the perfect husband because he is brave, loyal, and intelligent. Oddly enough, showing courage in difficult times makes Sir Percy the perfect husband. Sir Percy showed bravery when he entered the Chat Gris, knowing that his worst enemy was there (245). He risks his life to save the people who are being persecuted in France, by dressing up as a old hag (9). Such as with most relationships, being loyal enhances the quality of a husband. Sir Percy, the Scarlet Pimpernel, is always loyal to his league and aristocrats. For example, he would not leave without making sure they were safe, "Oh!...
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...a birthmark on her cheek. It is a small birthmark shaped like a hand. The husband even though he does love his wife he can’t help, but to be bothered by the birth mark a little bit. Her husband told her that she came nearly perfect, but the birthmark is keeping her from perfection. Georgiana’s husband is a renowned scientist. Her husband wishes to remove the birthmark from his beloveds face. Her husband has had a dream of him removing the mark. In his dream he is trying to remove it from her face, but the harder her tries the further and further it digs itself into her face. The dream does frighten and freak him out a little bit, but he still is going to attempt to remove it. He takes his wife to his lab to do the procedure of removal of the mark. His wife is taking everything he has in there. She finds a potion that is quite strong to remove freckles from ones face. She kindly asks her husband is this what you are going to use on me to remove my mark, he replies no you’ll need something much stronger. So he does the procedure and he is successful in removing the mark, but since he removed the mark his wife died soon after it was removed. The irony I find in it is that his wife really honestly was perfect, her birthmark did not make her imperfect it just added more character to her beauty. Her husband removed the mark and to him she is finally perfect, but wanting his wife to be his definition of perfect he ended up losing the love of his life. Now, did I love this piece? I am...
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...An Ideal Husband - Use of IRONY The title “An Ideal Husband” * Proves to be most ironic as none of the characters, let alone the husbands themselves are ‘ideal’, but instead, actually far from it. * deliberately exposes ideals as worthless, mostly in: * Romance and marriage * the stereotypes and expectations of what a gentleman should be * the stereotypes and expectations of a victorian lady Sir Robert Chiltern’s image of the perfect gentleman past of how he attained his wealth relating to the theme of political corruption. Sir Robert Chiltern is considered as an ideal husband and model politician. However people don't know that he conceals a blemished past of how he took the advice of his mentor, Baron Arnheim, and sold state secrets to attain his wealth. This makes the following quotes: “English Gentleman” “Robert is incapable of doing a foolish thing as he is of doing the wrong thing” - (dramatic irony) …very ironic as he may seem like the perfect gentleman and incapable of doing wrong or foolish things but in fact what is done is the total opposite of what is said as he did do all the things stated that he would never be capable of doing and is not what he seems to be. Sir Robert now conceals his past in order to keep his wife’s, lady Chiltern, love. Lady Chiltern's love is based on his perfect image. He then becomes desperate to be something he is not, making him torn between true and ideal selves, which creates...
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...married her second husband seven years after that, but the marriage ended in divorce, when it was discovered that her husband was gay. Her third marriage was to a man who was 10 years her junior and that marriage ended after 3 years when she found out that her husband was having an affair with a younger woman. Now this current marriage is ending because of a lack of passion and companionship, and an apparent general disinterest. Samantha dreads the aftermath of this divorce. She has begun to isolate herself from friends and spend long periods moping and thinking about how gloomy her future will be because she has decided never to marry or date again. Samantha’s parents were happily married for 50 years. They are both recently deceased and she continues to miss their support, affection, and guidance. Samantha has an older brother, whom she greatly admires and loves. He has been married for 20 years and has two daughters with whom Samantha has a close relationship. She views both her parents’ and brother’s marriages as perfect. Presenting Problem: Samantha is experiencing depression because her fourth marriage is in dissolution and she feels flawed and like a failure, and doomed to lead a life of loneliness. A life-long marriage has always been a profound desire for Samantha. She was raised to believe that “people are meant to go through life two by two.” She believes that the thing she wanted most in life has eluded her. She and her current husband have been married...
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...I Want a Husband Every woman wants what she thinks is the perfect husband. Not every woman wants the same thing in a man. Some women want a man who is a little rough or some want a man who is college educated. A few things all women can agree upon is we all want a man who is gives attention, committed, a good provider, great listener, educated, and handy around the house. That is just to name a few things us women want in a man. When I think of what the world says a good man is to me it is like they are looking for the perfect man. To me the perfect man cannot be found every man has there flaws. You just have to find the man with the flaws that you can deal with. Every good man is not college educated; but they know how to get up and go to work to make an honest living. To find a man that is educated is a good thing that means that they are on your level and can keep up with you. Education is important to every woman when it comes to finding a husband, because you know that their values are in the right place if going to school is important to them. What woman you know wants a man that is not committed to them. If a man cannot be committed you might as well say there is not a relationship. Woman want to know that they are the only one in a man's life. Women like to know the man is not out and about doing things that he should not do. When a man is turns into a husband commitment is important. No woman wants to find out that her man was not committed totally to her...
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...Theme The themes involved in this novel are love, the pressure to be perfect, deception, betrayal, and revenge. These themes are developed through out the book. Love starts on the first page, when you realize Nick’s wife is missing. The title wife implies that he loves this person. Later on, you find out that he was cheating on someone he supposedly loved? The pressure to be perfect is discover through the history of Amy. She grew up always looking for approval from her parents, as she was trying to live up to the expectations of a storybook character, that her parents created. Which just so happened to have the same name. Deception is expressed through lies, manipulation and deceit. An example of this would be Amy’s blatant lie of death....
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...feeling alone and unwelcomed. In comparison, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Georgiana from “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne both strive to live up to their husband’s expectation of what a woman should be. To keep to their perceptions set upon by their husbands; the narrator ends up going crazy whereas Georgiana and the loves she feels for her spouse, ends up dying to rid her of a hideous birthmark. The impacts in either story implicate the dire effects that society has to the overall ways this perception is used. During the 1800’s women were expected to act a certain way as dictated by their husbands. They were the property of their husbands, once they were married, and were treated as such. The narrators husband was a “physician of high standing” (Gilman), and Georgiana’s husband who was considered “a man of science” (225), both considered to be of a higher class. Being proper in both physical and metal capacities was one of the conditions that they were held to respectively. Couple this with the masculine and feminine roles, clearly defined in that timeframe, which added to each woman’s stress to conform to theirs husband’s ideals of a perfect woman. Neither character felt they were able to neither live without nor divorce their spouses and so bent to the others will without a thought. Much is the same in our society today; living with the expectations of a persona and comparing oneself to...
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...greatly focuses on some women who submit to these roles as well as some women who broke these roles. The Awakening by Kate Chopin, written in the 19th century, is a great example of what roles women were supposed to fill and it has many female characters that exemplify these roles, which include being a mother-woman, being submissive to their husbands, and being free from the appearance of immorality. In the 19th century there was a huge emphasis on being a good wife to your husband and being a caring mother...
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...Edith Wharton’s “The Other Two” is the perfect representation of how our opinions on others, especially significant others, can often change or be influenced by other. The story tells of two newlyweds, Mr. Waythorn and his wife Alice. Everything is well until Alice’s two ex-husbands come onto the scene. It is easily observable how this affects Waythorn’s opinion of his new wife. In the beginning all is perfect but he soon sees how Alice’s past has shaped her into the woman and wife she is. Waythorn’s attitude winds around throughout the story as he is around her exes and learns of her past. The story begins during the first night that Alice is staying with her new husband in his house. Waythorn is excited and although he knows of Alice’s previous marriages, “had an amused confidence in his wife’s ability to justify herself.” (Wharton 1685). This was a time when divorce was not socially acceptable so you can imagine how people would’ve looked upon someone who had...
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...A journey- Colm Tóibin No one can ever garantee us that our lives will turn out the way WE want it to be. And accepting something that kills us on the inside like sorrow does, is never an easy thing for us to do. Everyone yearns for the perfect future and eventually when/if we approach to what we thought would be perfect but isn’t that perfect at all we start to put questionmarks in our actions. Where did I wrong? How did I end up here? Is it MY fault? Those kinds of question can really take over our minds and leaves us with a feeling hopelessness and guilt. We feel like we have failed big time and we believe that it is our fault if anything in life goes the wrong direction. We’re so good at taking all the blame on our own shoulders and walk on with such a big burden. This is what Mary is going through in the text “ A Journey”. She used to live a normal life back in the days and everything seemed to be perfect for her. But as time passed her by, her life began to turn upside down. Her husband (Seamus) has gone through some strokes and one of those strokes paralyzed his one side and the miserable condition of her son is still a mystery to her as it seems that she can‘t figure out what has caused his depression. Although David has made it clear that he doesn’t want to talk with Mary “No questions, Ma, I said no questions”, Mary still makes an effort to reach through him instead of getting his back against her. During his childhood David was spending most of his time...
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...The birth-mark on Georgiana’s cheek in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, The Birth-Mark, was a characteristic of hers that she adored. Her husband had considered perfect until after they got married and her and her husband got intimate. He saw her birthmark as an imperfection and wanted to make her the perfect woman that she could be without her birthmark. Although, he did not know that removing her birthmark would have unpleasant consequences. This birthmark that Georgiana possessed was a charm to her, but for her husband, Aylmer, it was a shock (4-5). He believed that his wife was perfect, but that birthmark made it impossible for him to think about anything else except removing it to make her perfect. Aylmer describes the hand as “its...
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...van der Zee shows a married life style with the perfect children and family in her dream; it’s what Faye, the protagonist of A secret Woman, wants for her happiness. While Godwin’s protagonist, marriage and family has already come true, and searching for a resolutions why she is suffocating of her home and eventually leads to her suicide. Both of the Protagonist in the stories have experienced a dramatic crises in their lives. In A S Secret Sorrow, Faye’s dramatic crisis comes before her marriage. She is discomposed because she can no longer have children, and she fears that her being unable to have children will prevent her from marrying the man she loves. Both Fays and her husband Kai always wanted marriage and children, and she assumes that it’s only under those conditions to be truly happy. Faye feels that she is incapable of having children now is a flaw. “Every time we see some pregnant woman, every time we’re with somebody else’s children I’ll feel I’ve failed you!” (36). Faye’s fears is not getting married to the man she loves and not having children. In “A Sorrowful Woman” The dramatic crisis comes after her marriage and family has already started. Unlike Faye, she would be blissful in this woman’s shoes, the protagonist of Godwin’s story is not. Unexpectedly her husband and son bring her such sorrow that she can no longer see them, and only communicating through notes stuck under her bedroom door. Godwin has loving husband and child as characters in the plot, but yet...
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...wife to Mr. Patrick Maloney, also a soon to be mother and oh how she longed for the birth of her child, but even though Mary was quite far along in her pregnancy she found not one excuse for this to interfere with keeping her household the way it was expected to be. This meant a day of perfecting the perfect, Mrs. Maloney loved nothing more than to please her husband and with everything perfect how could he not be pleased? To Mary the world revolved around nothing but her husband, she almost had a tendency to over obsess about him if he was not home she would hover at the door awaiting his return. Mary would give anything and everything for her husband until the day cam that her husband announced he had no interest to be with her any longer. As you could imagine Mary was nothing but shocked and by being in shock Mary had not the slightest word to say, but her lack of words were easily made up for with her strong and intense actions. You can abruptly see the emotions lying inside of her, and it was the emotions lying inside of her that evoke her to have her husband now lying on the floor. You could feel the rage and power inside her throughout the time that she abolished her husband, but you could later feel the tension and guilt building up in her after she had realized what she had done, she had to cover her tracks but how? Mary was never known to show such rage towards anything, to others she was an obedient kind hearted person, and that is how she would play to her strengths...
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...The Birthmark Nathanial Hawthorne does an excellent job of incorporating the human struggle for perfection in his short story, The Birthmark. Georgiana was a beautiful woman, “almost perfect”, as her husband told her repeatedly; however on her cheek was a small birthmark. While many men found this birthmark to be charming, her husband was repulsed by the small facial marking. “Ah, upon another face perhaps it might,” replied her husband; “but never on yours. No, dearest Georgiana, you came so nearly perfect from the hand of Nature that this slightest possible defect, which we hesitate whether to term a defect or a beauty, shocks me, as being the visible mark of earthly imperfection.” (Hawthorne, 1843, p1) Georgiana’s husband, Aylmer, began to obsess about this and actually would visibly shudder at the sight of her birthmark. This slowly but surely managed to break down Georgiana’s confidence to the point where she could not even look at herself in the mirror! Aylmer’s quest for human perfection resulted in Georgiana agreeing to have several scientific experiments performed on her in order to rid her of the birthmark. “Danger is nothing to me; for life, while this hateful mark makes me the object of your horror and disgust, -- life is a burden which I would fling down with joy. Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!” (Hawthorne, 1843, p2) Georgiana’s life has become all about this small mark on her face. It no longer mattered what kind of person...
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...was burst into tears. My sister immediately ran to break up the fight. My mother was still yelling and swearing at my father. My sister looks at my brother who is standing next to me staring in amazement and yells “JOE ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME!” What was once a light flow of tears became a heavy flood. It was such a huge night for me because I had always thought my parents were madly in love and that their relationship was perfect. I would always listen to my friends talk about their parents being divorced and the struggle with having to go back and forth to houses and how they missed having a family. I would brag Savage 2 about it “well my parents are still together!” Everyone in the room who has divorced parents would say “lucky” or “I wish I had your parents.” It wasn’t the really losing the bragging rights the upset me it was mostly the fact that in this modern day it’s hard to find that perfect couple that could give you...
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