Women in Ancient Art Women are the foundations of life. For centuries, they have been worshipped, adored, treasured and admired. Women are the birth givers, the nurturers, and the teachers. They are wives, mothers, doctors, writers, artists, inventors, leaders, business owners, laborers, and sold...
While reading this novel, the reader can encounter some features of it which are typical of Victorian novels: the plot is quite realistic, the characters belong to the middle class, and some of them can be described as typical Victorian characters (for instance, Tom's and Maggie's aunts). On the oth...
Imagine wanting to go to school. Getting an education and a job was a dream or having a family was the best thing possible; imagine knowing that one of these things is not attainable because of gender. What sex someone is cannot be controlled or decided before birth, yet in the Victorian time period, a person's life was altered based on their reproductive organs. Not only were unrealistic goals forced on people due to their gender but also because of the social class they were born into. These uncontrollable factors were in the Victorian time period inhibited people from reaching their fu...
