Personification Of Miss Wade

Historically, social normalities have been governed by notions of the separate sex dichotomy. Assorted into two spheres of the man and the woman, these divisions permeated through Western culture and developed a template for human behavior. Women during the early Victorian era modeled domestic and pure attributes and seemingly had non-existent sexualities. Passive characterization supported common thought of child bearing as the female destiny and molded their identities into subordinate ones. At the turn of the 20th century in Great Britain, women began to partake in the capitalist sphere and diverged from traditional gender roles, completely redefining them post-World War 1. Seen in exemplary literary texts written during the Victorian and
Her deviant character was isolated from the others by the dark cloud of mystery which enveloped her. The only character to question her was Mr. Meagles, a family man constantly boasting about his generosity while ill-treating the women around him. He brags about adopting Harriet, an orphan, who simply served his daughter Pet, and took place of her dead twin. By re-naming her Tattycoram, the Meagles family stripped her of identity and forced her into a domesticated life. In the quarantine scene, Tattycoram threw a violent and raging tantrum in response to the Meagles’ oppressive orders, described by “battling with all the force of her youth and fulness of life, until her passionate exclamations trailed off, she sank into a chair, drawing the coverlet with her, half to hide her shamed head and half to embrace it, rather than have nothing to take to her repentant breast.” (Dickens, 26). Remarks of passion and defiance arose from her tantrum, diminishing as soon as she realized her radical behavior. By cocooning herself in her blanket and lowering her head in embarrassment, she extinguished her explosive vocals and reclined back into a Victorian