A Comparison of Kate Chopin and Charlotte Gilman’s Works (2492 words, 3 pages)
In the last half of the nineteenth century, Victorian ideals still held sway in American society, at least among members of the middle and upper classes. Thus the cult of True Womanhood was still promoted which preached four cardinal virtues for women piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Women were considered ...
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