In six pages the education and equality of women as presented in various literary works are compared and contrasted and also are related to the concept of marriage. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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in marriage have long been evident in the literature of the past 500 years. Christine de Pizan in 1405 first wrote on the importance of the education of women and
the ideals of equality in her work "Book of the City of Ladies". Since that time the same issues have been discussed by Henrik Ibsen in the relationship between Nora
and Torvald in "A Dolls House" (1879), Mary Wollstonecraft in ""A Vindication of the Rights of Women" (1792), John Stuart Mill in "The Subjection of Women" (1869) and Kate Chopin
in "The Awakening" (1899). Contrary to the popular belief that women need marriage and men to "rise" in society, these writings show that women crave education and only want marriage
if it can be on equal intellectual terms. Henrik Ibsens "A Dolls House" written in 1879 became an influential play regarding the rights
for women in marriage and the equality women to which women must strive. Although this may not have been Ibsens intention at the time, throughout the play, various statements are
made by Nora and Torvald which seem to classify the general inequality and deception which is prevalent in their marriage. In addition, because Nora eventually leaves in the end, it
is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless of the deception which has been going on
in the marriage, Nora originally continues because she doesnt want to cause humiliation to her husband, but it soon becomes obvious that he has little regard for her feelings when
he states in Act III that "as for you and me, its got to seem like everything between us is just as it was - to the outside world. Youll