“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” (Lao Tzu, 530 BC) Marriage has an always will be a concept that will be important to people. It’s everywhere both physically and in spirit. If there isn’t a show on TV highlighting a woman’s tough search for the perfect wedding dress, it’s your mother pestering you to settle down and find a nice man to marry because that’s what you’re supposed to do; right? Its importance lies deep within the history of the world from the beginning of time and will stay just as important to the end. But it never stays with the same level of importance to everyone as maybe one would think. There are millions of cases where people refuse to get married whether it
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From having detailed and serious conversations with Jesus to praying for a “chaste marriage” we can see this very importance goes hand in hand with her views of marriage and what is important to her. Chastity is “…sexual behavior of a man or woman that is acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of their culture, civilization or religion.” (“Chastity”, Wikipedia 2016) Religion is part of history, and part of the world, therefore it will be tied very closely into people’s views of what is traditional when it comes to this; so it is no surprise that we find this very theme incorporated into her book The Book of Margery Kempe. In this book we see a woman’s journey on the road of religious fulfillment and her struggles with marriage and trying to adhere to the rules of her religion. Margery is trying to stay faithful to God but still trying to live through and ignore her desires (as well as her ‘responsibilities’) as a wife. This struggle is highlighted very seriously in this …show more content…
For Austen, at least at that age, love was simple and very much innocent in a way. The character looks at things more in an emotional way instead of in more of a level headed and slightly guarded way (A.K.A. the ‘Cult of Sensibility’) and this is the way she thinks throughout. Though this novel was more along the lines of something that was made up for the benefit of making fun of other novels where women act in such a way. Therefore, we see that she has a good knowledge about marriage and regards anyone else’s ideas that it’s something light as something funny rather than serious. It’s more on the side of satire than it is a serious novel about love. We can clearly see the dramatization
From having detailed and serious conversations with Jesus to praying for a “chaste marriage” we can see this very importance goes hand in hand with her views of marriage and what is important to her. Chastity is “…sexual behavior of a man or woman that is acceptable to the moral standards and guidelines of their culture, civilization or religion.” (“Chastity”, Wikipedia 2016) Religion is part of history, and part of the world, therefore it will be tied very closely into people’s views of what is traditional when it comes to this; so it is no surprise that we find this very theme incorporated into her book The Book of Margery Kempe. In this book we see a woman’s journey on the road of religious fulfillment and her struggles with marriage and trying to adhere to the rules of her religion. Margery is trying to stay faithful to God but still trying to live through and ignore her desires (as well as her ‘responsibilities’) as a wife. This struggle is highlighted very seriously in this …show more content…
For Austen, at least at that age, love was simple and very much innocent in a way. The character looks at things more in an emotional way instead of in more of a level headed and slightly guarded way (A.K.A. the ‘Cult of Sensibility’) and this is the way she thinks throughout. Though this novel was more along the lines of something that was made up for the benefit of making fun of other novels where women act in such a way. Therefore, we see that she has a good knowledge about marriage and regards anyone else’s ideas that it’s something light as something funny rather than serious. It’s more on the side of satire than it is a serious novel about love. We can clearly see the dramatization