Bride and Prejudice

“Social Criticism in Marriage” In the novel, e.g. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen used social criticism to portray how she felt about women and marriage. Austen used the two characters Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas to show two totally different perspectives on marriage in this work. Social criticism during that time was more pressed on women back then rather than now for several reasons. Some women can feel like Elizabeth who felt as though marriage should be based on love. Other women could identify with Charlotte who was all about securing her life with shelter, protection, and money from a man whether she loved him or not. Even in present times women are pressured into being married, but it’s nothing like it was back then. Jane Austen…

True love never lies, and it never fails. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the Bennet family and Mrs. Bennet’s quest to get her 5 daughters married. The opening chapter begins with Mrs. Bennet telling her daughters about Mr. Bingley, a new upper class and wealthy neighbor. Mr. Bennet, the polar opposite of his wife, refuses to follow the social norm of going to meet the bachelor first before any of the women. While Mr. Bennet eventually does this anyway, it is not before he…

In both Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Corpse Bride (2005), the characters were relatively ‘different’ from those that they were surrounded by, therefore making them strange and considerably odd in the eyes of people they came in contact with- there was sympathy, pity, indifference, sacrifice, attraction, jealously, repulsion, understanding, fear, and prejudice surrounding both these characters as they discovered the real world. Both films are extremely fairytale-like, which…

the bride and groom, who have little or no say in the arrangement (Oxford Dictionary). Although in modern day society, arranged marriage is not as dominant as it was in the past due to social change, it still exists in many areas of the world today. Often times marriages are arranged due to religious, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, as well as caste, alliances, wealth etc. Statistics show that in India, 90% of marriages are arranged (Udas, 2012). In traditional societies, like those in…

A twisted plot of lies and confusion among the characters in The Robber Bride; each of the main characters have dealt with the darkness they once called their friend. It all started in college when Tony, Roz, and Charis all met the darkness they call Zenia. They let her in thinking she is the light of their life when she really a twisted web of lies and deceit. She messes with their men and turns them against the women they loved. A “bride” that steals the men of other “brides”. In The Robber…

Movies are a great way to learn about leadership. And not many movies can compete with the Princess Bride (Reiner, 1987) when it comes to learning leadership. Let’s take a look at how leadership is demonstrated in each of the characters, based on the work of Komives, Lucas, and McMahon (2013): in Table 8.2: Examples of Common Roles in Groups (Komives et al., 2013, 323-324). These roles are as follows: “Information Seeker, Opinion Seeker, Opinion Giver, Summarizer, Clarifier, Gatekeeper,…

A marriage is a beautiful thing, but sometimes the marriage can be complicated. It is not always a marriage between two people can keep the love, and keep their marriage, as they promise when they get married. Some people are getting a divorce, and moving on and falling in love with another person. Reconciliation is a short story written in 2006 by Polly Clark. The story is about the main character Laura who is alternate between marriage and divorce. Laura is a first-person narrator because in…

The theme of free will and fate plays one of the dominant roles in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love story. Fate and free will are responsible for a lot of conflicts that happened throughout the play. Shakespeare gives a hint to the audience about the doom of the couple by saying in the prologue that “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Prologue pg.23) Romeo and Juliet’s love is “dead-marked” which means that their love will bring their death. From the beginning, fate allows Romeo…

In The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Inigo and Fezzik both experience epiphanies. Inigo is a Spaniard that dedicates his life to avenging his father by killing his murderer, the Count. Fezzik is an extremely large Turk who is terrified of being alone. After their epiphanies, Inigo becomes a more confident character and Fezzik becomes a helpful character that doesn’t just get in the way all the time. The first character to experience an epiphany is Inigo. Inigo’s realization was he must…

It includes a variety of actions ranging from elopement or staged abduction for consensual marriage to violent non-consensual kidnapping. ‘Kidnapping’ refers to the non-consensual variety, which typically involves a young man and his friends taking a young woman by deception or force to the home of his parents or a near relative” (Kleinback, Ablezova, Aitieva, 2005). There are many facets of bride kidnapping—the nonconsensual bride kidnapping is what is victimizing women and their families in…