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Comparing Women In Jacobean England And Victorian England

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Shakespeare, Duffy and Browning present women as being powerful, resentful and determined to an extent through their voices, but you would not interpret this from skim reading. Women were often considered to be subservient in society and, due to the patriarchal society they lived in, they found it difficult to exceed in life. Women in Jacobean England and Victorian England lived in a social system (patriarchal society) in which males held power, predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, and social privilege and control of property. Examples would include women not being permitted to own property after marriage; in the domain of the family, fathers or father-figures held authority over women and children. Shakespeare’s
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