If we have a look at the morality of the nineteenth century in England, we can observe how the differences between men and women became even more defined. Wives, daughters and sisters were left at home all day to manage the domestic duties. In a society absorbed and caught in the morality imposed by Queen Victoria, the two sexes lived in “separate spheres” where women and men lived their own lives. Women were considered weaker to men, so they were sent to take care of the domestic “sphere”. They used the fact that women had such a big amount of work at home as an argument against women’s right to vote.
We see all these Victorian ideologies in “The woman in white”. For instance, Sir Percival treats her wife, Laura, as an object on several occasions. He uses her as a fast way of earning money and he treats her as a weak and inferior person, with
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Collins’ advice to other writers was: “Make them laugh, make them cry. Make them wait”. (them: the readers). How Collins does this in The Woman in White, look through the book to find examples.
Collins made us (the readers) laugh, cry and wait throughout The Woman in White.
Maybe in the adaptation we had to read, these feelings (happiness, sadness and making us wait) weren’t as clear as in his novel, but we can say that Wilkie Collins definitely made the readers wait. We see it through all the adaptation, for example, when Collins tries his harder to make the love between Walter and Laura impossible till the end.
In “The Woman in White”, Collins made us feel sad and frustrated a few times, for instance, when the love between Walter and Laura can’t be possible, or when we discover that Sir Percival confined Laura into an asylum by pretending that she was Anne.
In my opinion, this adaptation didn’t make the readers laugh, but indeed made us happy with a satisfying ending, when Walter and Laura get married and they have a child that inherits Limmeridge House.
4. Imagine another ending for the book and write it