Dowry

The documentary "It's a Girl" declares that women are not disposable. Many countries, especially India and China, do not view women as a man's equal. Because of this, many baby girls are either aborted or murdered right after birth. Some babies are left on the side of the road or thrown away. Not only are baby girls being treated unfairly, but grown women as well. Women are abused and viewed as property. Women are neglected and never receive the same care as men. Some women are even forced to become

babies. Male children can carry on the family name, take care the parents when they get old and are less "expensive" to raise. In India there is a dowry system where in order for a woman to be married, the bride’s family must give gifts of money, land, livestock or other expensive items. This can put I strain on poorer families who cannot afford to pay a dowry or richer families who do not want to spend that type of money. So , when they have a girl child they either get an abortion or kill the child

I grew up in a traditional society where gender discrimination was common experience in day to day life. Men torture women for dowry. By growing up in these situations, I felt that it was common in the society because women didn’t revolt against men that placed women inferior. Reminisce of traditions such as dowry system and child marriages still exists in some parts of India. In our country, gender discrimination is very high. In some areas Parents do not encourage girls for education they send

Convents preferred dowered girls because the money went into their upkeep. The average dowry in the eighteenth century that demanded by a nunnery was between 3,500- 4,000 pesos. Undowered girls could enter the nunnery by “learning how to play an instrument and serving as musicians for required “sung” conventual masses… and religious services

is not consummated until around three years after they are considered married. It is the job of the groom’s family to arrange the marriage. Sometimes a matchmaker is hired to make the search process easier. The two families meet and discuss the dowry, wedding date, and education and if both families agree, the wedding rituals carry on. The pre-wedding ceremony consists of the groom leading the bride around a fire seven times. She is then taken back to her home until she is summoned to her husband’s

Tagore As A Realistic Writer According to Oxford Dictionary 8th edition (2010), realism is a mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or ‘reflecting’ an actual way of life. In simpler words, realism can also be defined as a style in art or literature that shows things and people as they are in real life. Tagore is a realistic writer as he uses this method in the writing of his works significantly. He believes that literature has the ethical and moral function which is to trigger the

save 500,000 rupees later” (p. 174). The reason most people in India do not want a female child is because of the dowry system. I understand that it is a part of their culture, but if everybody wants to benefit from the dowry and nobody want to pay it, then what is the point of having a dowry system? Females are not the problem; the problem is that dowry payments are too high. The dowry system should be abolished or there should be a fixed amount that the bride’s family has to give to the groom’s

blood. In the South, there is no clear distinction between the “family of birth” and “family of marriage” (U.S. Library of Congress). In both North and South India, dowries are essential in order to have a marriage. Dowries are paid by the bride’s family to the groom’s family. They usually consist of goods or cash, but the definition of dowry has changed over the

Released in 1983, Eldar Ryazanov’s A Cruel Romance remains the most compelling adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky’s nineteenth century play about a beautiful but poor young woman desperately seeking love in an inherently selfish world. As in Without a Dowry (1879), the film centers on the dramatic conflicts between not only Larisa Ogudalov and her various suitors but also amongst the aspiring men themselves. Through its representation of Ostrovsky’s themes, Ryazanov’s production depicts the ramifications

ask, why the Indian government isn’t legislating to control crimes against women, however there are already many laws in place to protect women, on par with laws found in developed countries. For example, The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, an act to prohibit the giving or taking of dowry, dowry being the amount of money or property brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage, The Married Woman’s Property Act, 1874 and The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Despite 44 laws