* In JaneAusten:
** In ''NorthangerAbbey'', when Isabella breaks her engagement with Catherine's brother to take up with Captain Tilney, it is taken as a matter of great gravity. Henry and Eleanor only manages to persuade Catherin to stay as their guest by assuring her that their brother would not dare bring her to their father's house.
** In ''SenseAndSensibility'', Lucy's breaking her engagement with Edward Ferrars for his brother is treated as shocking -- even though Edward no longer wants to marry her and maintains it out of pure duty.
* In Dante's ''TheDivineComedy'', the lowest sphere of {{Heaven}}, the Moon, holds the oathbreakers. Dante meets two women there who had taken vows in a convent and then been taken out to be married. He objects to Beatrice that they had been forced; Beatrice says that if you gave ThePromise and are forced not to fulfill it, it doesn't count as oathbreaking, but you are not forced if having been forced for a time, you don't even try to fulfill it as soon as the force is removed, you break the oath at that point.

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* In Creator/JaneAusten's novels:
** In ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'', when Isabella breaks her engagement with Catherine's brother to take up with Captain Tilney, it is taken as a matter of great gravity. Henry and Eleanor only manages to persuade Catherin to stay as their guest by assuring her that their brother would not dare bring her to their father's house.
** In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Lucy's breaking her engagement with Edward Ferrars for his brother is treated as shocking -- even though Edward no longer wants to marry her and maintains it out of pure duty.
* In Dante's ''Literature/DivineComedy'', the lowest sphere of {{Heaven}}, the Moon, holds the oathbreakers. Dante meets two women there who had taken vows in a convent and then been taken out to be married. He objects to Beatrice that they had been forced; Beatrice says that if you gave ThePromise and are forced not to fulfill it, it doesn't count as oathbreaking, but you are not forced if having been forced for a time, you don't even try to fulfill it as soon as the force is removed, you break the oath at that point.

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