Betrothal

After the plummet of the black death, that wiped out almost 80% of the population, something known as the Renaissance began to rise and flourish in many parts of Italy and Europe. The renaissance took place during 1350 and ended around 1450 or from the 14 to the 16 century. After the renaissance, people thought they had rediscovered the culture of the roman empire, therefore, the renaissance means rebirth. Like the middle ages, there was a hierarchy system which stated that royalty is on top,…

As popularized in the 1955 movie and song, “Love is a many-splendored thing.” In the grand scheme of things, this magnificent feeling of affection can lead an unsuspecting wanderer down many different paths in life. Whether the path will end happily or fall into despair depends on the situation and those involved. The archetype of a perfect love story is as follows: Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy proposes to girl, girl says yes, the couple gets married and lives happily ever…

In this study, we will be examining Gaetano Donizetti’s 1835 bel canto opera Lucia Di Lammermoor and its treatment of the title character’s mental disorder, from a feminist perspective. Lucia’s madness is hinted at multiple times during the unfolding of the story and as the dramatic tension rises, but it has fully developed by the time when, in the midst of the wedding celebrations in Act III, Raimondo appears and tells the assembled guests that Lucia has murdered her bridegroom, Arturo. Lucia’s…

Using irony and satire, Jane Austen (1775-1817) provided important insights to her attitude about life through her character’s experiences in her novel Pride and Prejudice (1813). Protagonist Elizabeth Bennet “Lizzie”, reveals Austen’s suppressed yet forward thinking opinions regarding the social restrictions of women, class mobility and marriage during the early nineteenth century England amidst a humorous romantic story of love and misunderstanding. The novel begins with: “It is a truth…

a. Dynamics In the thesis study, small household typologies have been investigated under ‘dynamics, diverse, dual’ trilogy respectively and this is an alternately trilogy that each concept creates each other. Small households’ typologies have been investigated by these three concepts. Firstly, dynamic concept has a great effect on the formation of household typologies by some basic features such as; age, family life-cycle, flexibility, timely transformations on small households, distances…

Mary, Bloody Mary is a fictionalized telling of the childhood and history of Mary Tudor. The book is told from her point of view and it gives the reader an insight into what Mary’s life was like. Mary Tudor is best known for being “Bloody Mary” but, since the book is written from Mary’s perspective, the reader sees her as more of a hero than she is normally portrayed. Mary, Bloody Mary is a very historically accurate book, with very little straying from the true history. The book opens with a…

The Clerk’s Tale is Chaucer’s exaggerated version of Petrarch’s or based his on the original by Boccaccio. It exaggerates that of an abusive relationship in marriage during the medieval times. There is a tyrant and a victim and Chaucer does everything he can to distinguish between the two and get the readers to …. Chaucer’s Clerk made terrorising an explicit motive for Walter’s tests, he also makes the torment the explicit effect experienced by Griselda. Chaucer has Griselda describe Walter’s…

India currently has the highest number of child brides worldwide, despite the fact that the practice of child marriage is illegal in the country. This trend is particularly relevant, as it reveals that child marriage—a significant human rights violation—has seemingly continued unabated in the region. This exploratory essay aims to understand why the practice of child marriage remains in India. The paper will first provide a general definition of child marriage through the lens of human rights…

Margaret Beaufort Born: 31st May 1443, Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire Parents: John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset and Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe, her second marriage. Siblings: First marriage- Sir John of Bletsoe, Oliver St. John, Edith St. John, Mary St. John, Elizabeth St. John, Agnes St. John, Margaret St. John. Third marriage-John Welles. Married: John de la Pole, married between 1444 and 1450, annulled by Henry VI by 1553. Edmund Tudor, married 1st November 1455-1456, his death. Sir…

His son and successor Solomon is most noted for advancing David’s kingdom and for building the First Temple. In fact, according to Abba Eban (1999), author of over half a dozen historical reference books on Jewish history as well as the PBS television series “Civilization and the Jews,” “Solomon’s Temple was the crowning glory of a building program that rivaled those of the Pharaohs” (p. 50). Archaeologists claim to have found remnants of Solomon’s Temple as well in the form of a tablet dated…