Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems.

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Compare and contrast how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems.

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In my course work I will be comparing and contrasting how gender roles are represented in a variety of love poems.

Gender roles love, marriage and sex have changed since the 1800's.Now people have sex and get married because they want to make love to each other and have a nice family, wanting to spend their life with the perfect partner, together making a commitment to each other. Where as in the 1800's people only got married because they wanted to raise their status and to have children to help them work and earn financial income, when they would be old they could take over their business. In the 1800's it was much different from now because then if you was a woman you wouldn't be able to get a job that you wanted to get, the only jobs which were available where to be a teacher or a domestic servant. Whereas now, if you're a woman you could get any job you want, having the equivalent pay and respect as a male worker, there are no differences between