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The Mal Mariée (French for "badly married") is a young woman unhappily married to a much older man. Not just a year or two—there is a significant age difference. She is almost always innocent and beautiful, and was likely married against her will. He is probably ugly, probably cruel, and definitely obsessively jealous; he often keeps her imprisoned (most iconically, in a tower) to avoid her interacting with other men. This never works. The more he tries to keep her for his own, the less she wants to do with him — and sooner or later, some handsome young knight, poet, student, or fairy will find a way to romance her. The implication is typically that he can't satisfy her because, at his age, he can't get it up — after all, Old People are Nonsexual. But he's probably too ugly for her, in any case. The older spouse is highly protective and tends to be aggressive towards any other character who even so much as hints at interest in their spouse. He is also often harsh and cruel towards his young wife because he constantly thinks she's cheating. If she's not cheating, she very often will eventually because he suspects her anyway and his jealousy is disgusting. Or he can be absolutely clueless. The story may end with the young wife outsmarting her husband and being happy with her lover, but it can also end in long suffering or tragedy. Sub-Trope of Sympathetic Adulterer. Frequently this trope follows from an Arranged Marriage or a Marriage of Convenience. Contrast Age-Gap Romance and May–December Romance, which is for couples with a major age difference who form a functional, loving relationship. Compare Unwanted Spouse, where age may factor in but can be either or both spouses hating the marriage. See also Old Man Marrying a Child. All Women Are Lustful (a more common trope in the medieval era) also plays into this. Very common in medieval literature, particularly in troubadour and trouvere poetry and the lais of Marie de France. A Forgotten Trope now, though it may get nods in stories with medieval or medieval-inspired settings. The trope is however subconsciously recognized by the audience who feel uncomfortable with predatory old men who romantically pursue and exploit very young women. |
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In Violet Evergarden, the arranged marriage of Isabella York to Duke Neville. While the Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll movie only hints at the dysfunction, with Isabella being unhappy after the timeskip, it is full-on confirmed in the novels. Their marriage having been done purely for the convenience of their families remains unconsummated, as Neville is significantly older than Isabella and already has another woman as a lover, and Isabella is a lesbian too. The short story Amy Bartlett and the Spring Sunlight Through the Leaves even shows she was contemplating suicide until Benedict Blue delivered a letter from her adoptive sister Taylor Bartlett, which gave her the will to live on. | |
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Tristan and Iseult: A young and beautiful Irish princess named Iseult is engaged to an old Cornish king named Mark. Love Potion is prepared for Iseult and Mark to make their Arranged Marriage work out. Tristan, King Mark's young nephew, drinks it with Iseult by mistake. They fall madly in love and sleep together, and they continue to commit adultery after Iseult and Mark's wedding. | |
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Brother Cadfael: In "The Rose Rent", the wife of a wealthy and aged wool merchant takes lovers while her oblivious husband is away on business. But when one of said lovers tries to use her as an alibi (he's innocent of that particular crime, but was engaging in other illegal activity nearby), she laughs in his face and makes it clear she has no intention of giving up the position and money her marriage gives her for him. | |
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In The Scarlet Letter Hester is young and beautiful, while her husband was several years older and deformed, and she didn’t love him in the slightest. Her husband forgives her since he has come to see that marrying her was foolish, and adultery with a young man was a foregone conclusion. However, his wrath is all employed in psychologically torturing her lover... | |
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In Poldark, teenage Morwenna is forcibly married to much older vicar Osbourne Whitworth. He repeatedly rapes her and threatens to hit her. | |
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Vikings: Earl Haraldson's young daughter Thyri is married off to an old man, Earl Bjarni. Both Thyri and her mother Siggy are dissatisfied with this decision. Earl Bjarni tells Thyri about their wedding, the sons he expects from her, and promises her gifts but she is visibly repulsed. During their wedding night, the fat, old and drunk earl passes out before he can consummate the marriage. In "Burial of the Dead", he complains about Thyri's lack of enthusiasm in bed and threatens to beat her for disobeying. Later, after Haraldson is defeated by Ragnar Lothbrok, Thyri is saved from her horrible marriage by her mother Siggy who kills Earl Bjarni in front of everyone. Thyri looks beyond grateful. | |
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Bordertown: Somehow, young, curvy Marie got married to Charlie, an amiable but dimwitted fat guy who's 20 years older than her. It's not explained how this happened, but however it happened, she clearly loathes him and she's sexually frustrated. She sets her sights on Johnny, the virile manager of Charlie's casino, and when chance brings her an opportunity, she murders her husband. | |
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All My Children's Adam and Gloria actually started out Happily Married until he was paralyzed in a car accident. His Ailment-Induced Cruelty promptly turned their relationship into this, with him rebuffing her because of his newfound impotency and ultimately driving her into another's man's arms. Not for sexual satisfaction, but he was simply so much nicer to her. | |
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In the story of Paolo and Francesca in canto V of the The Divine Comedy's Inferno, Francesca was wedded for political reason to Giovanni Malatesta (also called Gianciotto or "Giovanni the Lame"). While in Rimini, she fell in love with Giovanni's younger and handsome brother, Paolo, who was married as well. They managed to carry on an affair for some ten years, until Giovanni ultimately surprised them in Francesca's bedroom, killing them both. | |
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Attack on Titan Through flashbacks we learn Ymir Fritz was the first Titan shifter and used her powers to expand the Eldian tribe. As a teenager, her "reward" was to bear children for King Fritz, a man easily old enough to be her grandfather. Ymir was Queen in name, as Fritz treated her more like an object than an equal, but due to her slave programming, Ymir sheepishly obeyed him despite having the means to leave him or defend herself. She spent the last years of her short life bearing three daughters and furthering his campaigns until she was assassinated by a spear meant for Fritz, who orders her to get up and work and forces their daughters to devour her body to claim her Titan shifting abilities. | |
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The Canterbury Tales: In "The Miller's Tale", Alisoun is young, attractive, amorous and lustful, and a reputed beauty. John the carpenter is Alisoun's much older husband and he's constantly afraid that she'll cheat on him. The narrator says he's extremely jealous and very protective of her, but he's also very stupid and doesn't act like the obsessed, jealous spouse. He willingly takes young male boarders like Nicholas into his home, and he seems very devoted to his wife and concerned for her safety. Young Nicholas becomes Alisoun's lover and she is also courted by a parish clerk named Absolom. When John hears Absolon serenading Alisoun outside their window in the middle of the night, he only asks if she hears it, too. Poor stupid John ends up cheated on, tricked by his wife, and humiliated in front of the entire town. It doesn't turn out that well for the other men involved either; Nicholas does get to have sex with Alisoun, but also gets a red hot bar of iron in the backside, and Absolom unwittingly kisses Alisoun's "nether eye" (and gets farted on). Alisoun is really the only person who comes out of it a clear winner. "The Merchant's Tale": Old Januarie is deceived by his young wife May and her lover Damyan after Januarie suddenly goes blind. Januarie is over sixty and May not yet twenty. Both names are very symbolic: Januarie is as bare and unfruitful as the winter monthnote and was originally the second-to-last month on the Roman calendar before being moved to the beginning, which Chaucer doubtless knew having the education of an author, and May is youthful and fresh and associated with springnote and, related to the prior note, the first month of the Roman year even before the addition of January and February. Januarie marries May largely out of lust. It is not known why May accepts his offer; however, he is a rich man and above her social class. Damyan, a squire of Januarie's court, falls in love with May and she reciprocates. Januarie loses his sight, and his blindness increases his possessiveness and jealousy toward his young wife May. The lovers manage to sneak up to the branches of a pear tree in May's garden and begin to make love right above her husband's head. An enraged god Pluto restores Januarie's sight, but goddess Proserpina allows May to outwit him by explaining that she was merely struggling with Damyan in the tree because she had been told that it would magically restore Januarie's sight. The fooled Januarie and May continue to live together, and quite happily. May tells Januarie that he may be mistaken on more occasions, indicating her infidelity will go on. |
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The Handmaid's Tale: Eden is a 15-year-old girl forcibly assigned to marry Nick Blaine, an Eye of Gilead serving at Commander Waterford's household. Nick is in love with June, who serves as a Handmaid for Waterford and his Wife. Both Nick and June are in their thirties. Eden tries to make the marriage work, but Nick's not interested in her, which she takes hard. She soon falls in love with guardian Isaac who is about her age. In a twist, she's exasperated that Nick is not jealous at all and angry that he doesn't even care she kissed another man. After chatting with June, who advises her to grab whatever chance at happiness she has in their crapsack world, Eden and Isaac run away. They are caught and executed—Eden for infidelity, Isaac for desertion. | |
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Effi Briest: Zig-Zagged Trope. Effie Briest, a 17-year-old girl, is married off to a 40-year-old guy who was once romantically interested in her mother, Baron von Instetten. She feels neglected by her constantly busy husband and frowned upon by the local gentry; and worse, the unsettling house where they live is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a Chinese man, and not even the birth of a daughter improves her spirit. Her husband is never downright abusive and feels in his own way fond of her. She starts having an affair with Major Crampas, but she can't stand that she has to lie. She's relieved when her husband is transferred to Berlin, giving her a chance to break off the affair. Six years later she seems to be finally happy with her family but her affair with Crampas is discovered by Instetten who, despite still loving her and not being angry with Crampas, feels obliged to respect the codes of society: he divorces her and prevents her from seeing their daughter and kills Crampas in a duel. Effi lives her final years alone and gravely ill until her death. | |
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Codex Alera: Caria is married off to Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera in a politically arranged marriage. She is fifty years younger than her husband and they have a loveless, Sexless Marriage. Her husband doesn't treat her well and ignores her, so this trope lacks the jealousy part. In the spirit of the trope, she ends up having an affair with a charismatic and handsome man -Attis - who is manipulating her. It's revealed Caria has been poisoning her husband for years, using her medical knowledge from the Academy. | |
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Middlemarch: Dorothea marries the elderly Reverend Casaubon after falling in love with his scholarly works, only to realize that he's boring, jealous, and actively discouraging of intellectual pursuits for women. Luckily for her, Casaubon dies shortly after she falls in mutual love with his kind, adventurous nephew Will. Unluckily, Casaubon was bitter enough to write in his will that Will and Dorothea would have to give up all of his inherited fortune if they ever married, thus setting up the main Star-Crossed Lovers plot of the novel. | |
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One Life to Live's Asa Buchanan essentially blackmails Blair Daimler—young enough to be his granddaughter—into marrying him, threatening to turn in her in to the police for taking her mother out of the mental hospital where she was being mistreated (Blair had no legal right to do so, so she technically committed kidnapping). He sweetens the deal by promising to pay for private care for her mother as well as shower her with jewels and fine clothes, in exchange for her being a broodmare. Things turns even worse almost immediately, with Asa enacting the Marital Rape License, outright demanding that she give him a son or he'll throw her and her mother out. Blair resorts to a Fake Pregnancy to stop the abuse and is in the midst of planning to fake a miscarriage as well when she takes a Staircase Tumble and her lie is discovered. | |
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Hound: Young, beautiful Emer is unhappy about being engaged to King Connor, whom she has never met and who is older than her own father. She quickly falls in love with Cú Cullan on his mission to escort her to marry his uncle. | |
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The Punisher MAX: The Barracuda arc has Harry's Trophy Wife who gleefully sleeps with her Corrupt Corporate Executive husband's Number Two. Oddly enough, the husband is apparently impotent so he forgives her (although the jealousy manifests when he has her one-night-stands murdered), he's completely oblivious to her latest affair, and actually commits suicide when he finds out. The wife and her lover are eaten by sharks. | |
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The Eagles song "Lyin' Eyes" has a modern spin on this trope as part of the story. Young city girls marry rich old guys to have an easier life... but they pay an ugly price. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries, "Marked Twain": A solution to the murder case of the week lies in this trope. A rich old guy has a pretty young wife who cheats on him with a bartender from his club. The bartender is about her age and the husband kills him out of jealousy. | |
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Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford's friend Mrs Fraser (her maiden name is Janet Ross) married an old man for money and status, and Edmund writes in a letter to Fanny that she places her disappointment [in her marriage] not to faults of judgement, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being less affluent than many of her acquaintance. | |
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Chevalier (2022): Marie-Joséphine, an intelligent and vivacious young singer unhappily married to the significantly older, stiff-upper-lipped, unartistic Marquis de Montalembert, unsurprisingly begins an affair with her handsome peer Saint-Georges. | |
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Spectre: Assassin widow Lucia Sciarra to her late husband Marco, as she absolutely despised him, and after his death only grieves for her own sake due to being a loose end to be cleaned up by Spectre, before being rescued by Bond. | |
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Wagons West: Cathy Van Ayl's bad situation in Independence!, except in a frontier setting instead of a medieval one. Otto, her husband, is old, miserly, and incapable of sex | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Lady Lysa Tully is married off to elderly Lord Jon Arryn, a man decades older than her. Their marriage forges a useful alliance during the war and Lord Arryn needs a young woman to give him an heir. They have a loveless marriage because Lord Arryn is distant, Lysa has had many failed pregnancies and stillbirths, and she has never stopped loving her first love Petyr Baelish who was her father's ward. Later at court, Lysa and Petyr begin a secret affair (though he doesn't love her back) and Petyr even convinces her to poison her husband. Interestingly, Lord Arryn is portrayed sympathetically, while Lysa and Petyr are framed as villains. | |
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Neverwinter Nights: Part of Sharwyn's backstory, ultimately Defied: when her mother found herself in misery after inheriting a mountain of debts from her deceased husband, she tried to force Sharwyn into marrying Lord Farthingdon, described as a lustful and possessive individual, only for his wealth. Meanwhile, Sharwyn fell in love with Dennan, an apprentice bard in the service of Lord Farthingdon. She tried to maintain a secret relationship with him while pretending to be interested in the wedding. Her mother however eventually found out about her infidelity, leading Sharwyn to finally make a decision: forfeit the marriage and run away with Dennan, leaving behind her mother and Lord Farthingdon before the wedding day, who tried to have the two captured and executed. | |
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Catherine Called Birdy (2022): Catherine describes Berenice (age 25) as a noted hater of her husband Gideon (age 81), and indeed they're arguing in every scene they're in. According to Berenice's stepdaughter Aelis, Gideon banished the castle baker because he and Berenice were exchanging "wistful glances". | |
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The English folk ballad "Matty Groves"/"Little Musgrave" (famously covered under the former title by Fairport Convention) tells the tale of a wealthy lord's wife who seeks out companionship with the eponymous Matty. When the wealthy lord catches them in bed and kills Matty, his wife defiantly declares she'd "rather a kiss from dead Matty's lips than you or your finery" and is subsequently killed as well. | |
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The Red Tent: After Laban's first wife Adah passes away, and having Jacob around working for him is starting to pay off, Laban takes some gold coins and gets himself a new wife named Ruti, who is barely older than his daughters (so around 13 or 14 years old). At first, things aren't so bad, especially after Ruti bears him the sons he was hoping for (but was never able to have with Adah or with his concubines). But as time goes on, he starts treating her worse and worse (and their sons follow his example). It gets to a point where Laban gambles Ruti away to slave traders, and Leah and Jacob have to scramble to buy her back. After that, Laban's horrible treatment of Ruti gets even worse. One day, she finds out she's pregnant, and asks Rachel to concoct an abortifacient for her, threatening to kill the child anyway after it's born; Rachel agrees. (All of the women in the camp understand Ruti's choice, on the grounds that they don't much care for Laban, or the way he treats her, either.) Eventually, however, it gets to a point where Ruti can't take it anymore (and because of the way their society works, she can't get a divorce...and even if she could, she'd be at a huge disadvantage, with no education or marketable skills, little chance of remarriage, no alimony or child support, and no family she could go back to.) She slits her wrists by a dry riverbed. | |
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Sugawara Akitada: Count Tanibata's wife is much younger than him (he's in his sixties, she isn't even twenty) and it's heavily implied that he's only capable of acting like an overprotective fatherly figure. This eventually leads to his demise at the hands of his wife or his wife's lover. | |
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In The Phantom of the Opera, the opera company puts on Il Muto, a Show Within a Show that features this as a plot point: a married woman has an affair with a young man while mocking her old, feeble, and generally emasculated husband. She even sings a song about it: "Poor fool, he makes me laugh, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!" | |
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