Yes-Dearing Your Way To A Happy Marriage Analysis

In Julie Iovine´s preposterous and foolish article, ¨Yes-Dearing Your Way to a Happy Marriage?” Iovine supports Laura Doyle on how women should agree with their husbands under any circumstances and allow them to have all the power. Doyle advocates many ludicrous claims in her book The Surrendered Wife about how women should be compliant to men. Doyle’s ideas about women’s and men’s roles parallel to the ideas brought forth in The Taming of the Shrew because Doyle and Shakespeare both portray women to be subservient to men. In Shakespeare’s comedy, Taming of the Shrew, the main character Katherine marries a man by the name of Petruchio and throughout the play he begins to control her because she is deemed crazy in society's standards. In both the play and article women are supposed to give men all of the control in the marriage.
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In today's society, men and women are often equal when it comes to a serious relationship and/or marriage. The woman will not be afraid to speak up to her husband, nor will her husband neglect her from that right. Shakespeare's play took place in the Elizabethan Era, when women did not have the same rights they do today, therefore, the way the play was written fit in the public’s standards. However, unlike Shakespeare, Doyle wrote her book in the 21st century; where women and men are treated in the same way. As a result, Iovine and Doyle did not please the common people. There are many differences between the modern day society and the Elizabethan Era. Laura Doyle's book along with Julie Iovine’s article does not demonstrate how the present day common people act in a