In the story of Arcangela Tarabotti, Paternal Tyranny, Tarabotti’s complaint against convents begins with the fact that woman have only three choices in life which are: marry, join a convent, or become a prostitute. Tarabotti states that those women who join the convent have no choice but to live as a prisoner for the rest of her life. Tarabotti is not against women who choose the calling to join the convent since those women are making a choice. Tarabotti states that the sufferings of women who are forced into a convent is the same as putting them in Hell and states, “Over the gate of Hell…are inscribed the words…Abandon every hope, who enter here,” accordingly, she states that, “The same could be inscribed over the portals of convents.”