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Using 3 poems to date, comment on what you have learnt about women on society at the time.
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Using 3 poems to date, comment on what you have learnt about women on society at the time. I have chosen the poems Cousin Kate, Sister Maude and Maude Clare to help me on this topic because of the central relationship which each three have in common, the female/female relationship. But besides the female/female relationship we are also given an arch, the male, a desirable commodity in the age where marriage is mandatory, specially to the higher class ladies. The focus of this essay are about women in Victorian times. Those three poems mentioned above may not be prime examples, because of their bitter and dramatised contents, but they do give an inclination of these qualities. To start off, from additional background information it is clear that Victorian women are judged according to a blueprint. Every woman in this society have to abide to this unspoken laws, even lady-birds and mistresses....
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