C LIT243 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Glass Coffin, Angela Carter, Didacticism
6 Apr 2016
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Deeply entrenched in the myth of romantic love even as it is challenged through moral economic and emotional negotiations that complicate courtship rituals. Way of indoctrinating and enlightening children about the virtues of good manners, good breeding and good behavior. Steady the fears of young women to reconcile them to the custom of arranged marriages and the brance them for an alliance that required them to efface their own desires and to submit to the will of a monster. Civilizing power of feminine virtue and its triumph over crude animal desire, our own culture hails beast"s heroic defiance of civilization, with all its discontents. The man on a quest for his lost wife. Patriarchal norms, the subordination of female desire to male desire, and a glorification of filial duty and self-sacrifice. It"s neither good looks nor great wit that makes a woman happy with her husband, but character, virtue, and kindness and beast has all the good qualities.
