Advantages And Disadvantages Of Judith

Another disadvantage Judith had to endure was the inability to make her own decisions, including but not limiting, rights to the money which she had collected, and the husband in which she would marry. Woolf expresses the weight of Judith’s opinion about her marriage, “Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighboring wool-stapler.”(47). Woolf explains what would happen if Judith were to refused the arranged marriage, “the daughter who refused to marry the gentleman of the parents’ choice was liable to be locked up, beaten and flung about the room, without any shock being inflicted on public opinion” (42). Not only was she repressed by her father and the law, but then the person she was forced