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I think that in Tennyson’s poems, ‘The lady of Shalott’ and ‘Mariana’, the central female characters are presented to us in the way that Tennyson views women and their roles in society. There
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"Tennyson had great sympathy for women and the ways in which their lives were restricted." Write the ways in which Tennyson presents the lives of women in some poems you have read. I think that in Tennyson's poems, 'The lady of Shalott' and 'Mariana', the central female characters are presented to us in the way that Tennyson views women and their roles in society. There are many similarities and differences in both poems with how the female behave and live. In 'The lady of Shalott' the female lives in a tower, trapped and cursed, until she hears Lancelot coming. The lady is spinning tapestry and not looking out of the window at the outside world, yet towards the end of the poem she gets distracted and wants to see Lancelot for herself. The tapestry is an important symbol in the poem; it's the only world that the lady lives in and this is...
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