![]() Men preferred to marry safer, calmer women. ![]() Nora Johnson thought that men might regard travel as fast. As Hillary (the 18-year-old older sister) and Ria the 16-year-old main character interact and discuss the need to balance appearances with a certain sense of sensual attraction, the message of their mother Nora Johnson pervades the work. present and appearance of innocence while at the same time getting away with as much sexual behavior as you dared, barring making yourself unmarriageable. ![]() As with most young women the idea was to have a double goal, i.e. The interplay of repressed but somehow ever present sexuality is a theme that pervades Mauve Binchy's Tara Road, from the very beginning. ![]() Though the work is not that simple in its expression of the sexuality of women the culture itself still dictates decorum, secrecy and intrigue, when it comes to how women express their sexuality. Yet, the trick is on the main character as Ria looses her good husband, purportedly because she is no comparison to the other woman, when it comes to desire. ![]() Sexuality is this undercurrent of social concern, with traditional old values stressing the need to remain virtuous to win a good mate, and even keep him. One of the most conflicting and interesting social phenomena found in the work Tara Road by Mauve Binchy is female sexuality. ![]()
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