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In Shakespeares play,Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is only fourteen
when her father tells her she has to
marry Paris tomorrow. She doesnt love Paris, of course - she
loves Romeo. But she cant argue with her
father.
Such things really happened during Shakespeares life. A woman
had to obey her father, and shecould be married as young as twelve.
But usually, women only got married young if their parents told
them
to. Most women who had the choice didnt get married until they
were twenty- five or more. In fact, many
didnt get married at all. Women get married much more often now
than they did then.
So why didnt women want to get married in those days? One reason
was that wives had no
independence! When she got married, a woman had to promise to
obey her husband. She also had to give
him everything she owned. The law said that all a wifes property
belonged to her husband.
That law didnt change for centuries. Caroline Sheridan married
George Norton in 1827, when she
was nineteen. Nine years later, while she was visiting a friend,
her husband decided not to let her back into
their house. He kept everything - all her jewels, all her
clothes, all her furniture. She had nowhere to live. She
needed money, so she wrote some books and plays; they became
quite popular, and she got quite a lot of
money for them. But her husband decided to take that money away
from her as well. The law said he could
do that. He also took away their three young children, and didnt
let them see their mother. The law gave him
the right to do that, too. In fact, the law said a man could do
almost anything to his wife - except kill her. And
she couldnt divorce him.
Now, of course, the law has changed. Women can get married when
they want to. They can have
their own property, and they can get divorced. So its not
surprising that marriage is more popular than it
used to be, is it ?
Comprhension globale:
A) Quel est le titre qui conviendrait le mieux au texte?
qWhy Juliet had to marry
Parisq
Mr and Mrs Sheridan
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Why marriage didnt use to
be popularq
The invention of
divorce
3q
Hard life for men
B) Toutes ces phrases sont fausses. Rcrivez-les pour rtablir la
vrit en fonction du texte:
In
Shakespeares time,
girls often argued
with their fathers
about marriage.
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............................Husbands had to obey their
wives.
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4 George Norton tried to take all his wifes property away from
her.
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Marriage is not as popular as it used to be.
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Comprhension dtaille:
A) Cochez la bonne solution:
1. If they had the choice, women preferred...
qto get married young qnot to marry at all qnot to marry after
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2. Women who got married... qkept their own propertyq
gave their own property to their husbandsq
took their husbands property
3. Caroline Sheridan...qbecame a famous writer
qnever became famous
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divorced her husband when he became famous
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4. The law said a man...q
didnt have the right to kill his wife
qwas not allowed to take his wifes propertyq
couldnt take his wifes children
5. Caroline Sheridan...q
lived with her childrenq
took her children awayq
never saw her children again
B) Faites des phrases compltes partir des deux colonnes.
Utilisez le tableau pour vos
rponses:
1. Juliets father wanted his daughter A. everything they
owned.2. Even if they didnt like it, B. until the twentieth
century.
3. In those days, many women preferred C. as they have
today.
4. Women didnt have as much independence D. not to get married
at all.
5. Wives had to give their husbands E. to marry someone she
didnt love.
6. The only thing a man couldnt do F. than in Shakespeares
time.
7. Things didnt really change G. girls had to obey their
fathers.
8. Today, more women get married H. was to kill his wife.
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