19th Century Heroines
‘The Nineteenth Century English Novel offers us strong, independent heroines, but ultimately has them conform to socially acceptable feminine roles’. Do you agree with this statement?
By definition, a heroine is a woman who would typically encompass the qualities of nobility, courage, independence and strength. Nineteenth century English women would have struggled to accomplish any of these particular acts of heroism within their social environment as ultimately, their roles within civilisation saw them becoming a good wives and mothers and before that, obliging and caring daughters. Within this ubiquitous discourse of separate spheres, Kathryn Gleadle suggests that women were ‘encouraged to see themselves as ‘relative creatures’, whose path in life was to nurture the family and to provide unstinting support for the head of the household’ In this respect, the nineteenth century British woman conforming to this ‘path’ would prove to be the heroine of that time as a......
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