That’s ridiculous. Marriage requires consent. She consents, which means it’s up to him. Older women should be teaching little girls that marriage requires consent from both parties, that’s a good lesson.
True but who is it that usually proposes? There’s no reason why a woman couldn’t propose to a guy, but many things would have one believe otherwise and that a woman must wait for a man to ask them.
Re-read the poem. The author is trying to marry the uncle’s sibling. They refer to the young girl as “your niece,” indicating that when said niece asks if the author loves the person the poem is addressing, that person isn’t the uncle. It is, in fact, the sibling of the uncle.
In this particular case, as I don’t know anything else about the author, they reinforced the idea that conservative sexist, conservative racist, conservative classist, or conservative religious ideas are more influential to the outcomes of an individual’s life, than the individuals that are involved. IE they reinforced the idea that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one.
That’s ridiculous. Marriage requires consent. She consents, which means it’s up to him. Older women should be teaching little girls that marriage requires consent from both parties, that’s a good lesson.
True but who is it that usually proposes? There’s no reason why a woman couldn’t propose to a guy, but many things would have one believe otherwise and that a woman must wait for a man to ask them.
If she proposes to him, it’s still up to him.
Re-read the poem. The author is trying to marry the uncle’s sibling. They refer to the young girl as “your niece,” indicating that when said niece asks if the author loves the person the poem is addressing, that person isn’t the uncle. It is, in fact, the sibling of the uncle.
In this particular case, as I don’t know anything else about the author, they reinforced the idea that conservative sexist, conservative racist, conservative classist, or conservative religious ideas are more influential to the outcomes of an individual’s life, than the individuals that are involved. IE they reinforced the idea that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one.
“You” has a niece, the girl in the poem. The girl in the poem has an uncle, “you”. The author wants to marry the uncle, who is “you”