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The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
Historically, we have had some very strong and brave women who have tried to change the world. We have come a long way. We find that women are in every field of expertise. Forward countries like USA, Italy, Japan, China, and Russia haven’t had a single woman president. In this modern era, we still find women being abused both physically and sexually, uneducated, and not being given enough opportunities. Chastity and virginity are clauses applicable only to women not to men? We, humans, the so-called evolved species cannot behave like animals. We should all be feminists and change the outlook of everybody (both men and women), to bring out the best in every woman.
A point that I noted was the house of mirth was published in 1905 and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was published in 1813, almost a hundred-year difference but still women’s only aim in life was to get married and I find it rather depressing. Though the women’s suffrage movement started around the mid of 19th century, New Zealand was the first country to give women voting rights in 1893.
The house of mirth is a story about an extremely beautiful Miss Lily Bart. A rich young lady, who cannot leave her wealthy habits even after she is rendered penniless and who wishes to marry a rich guy. I found Lily to be like Marie Antoinette. When women aren’t exposed to the outside world and they have been brought up in a closed community and are uneducated, they cannot be expected to have foresight or worldly wisdom. Though Lily moves in glamorous party circles and socialites, what goes through the mind of Lily Bart amidst all this is depressing. A young girl who has nobody to guide her, who has been brought up with wealthy materialistic habits cannot suddenly change her ways of life and her outlook (and outfits!). The society of that era looked at women as marriable objects who would later bear children. Moreover, women are easily labelled, blamed, accused, and ostracised. In the current era women, if educated, can get some jobs. But in that era when women didn’t even go to schools and weren’t allowed to work the scene is deplorable
I recommend this book to one and all as one needs to be aware of women's life, historically, be it rich or poor.
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!
A point that I noted was the house of mirth was published in 1905 and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was published in 1813, almost a hundred-year difference but still women’s only aim in life was to get married and I find it rather depressing. Though the women’s suffrage movement started around the mid of 19th century, New Zealand was the first country to give women voting rights in 1893.
The house of mirth is a story about an extremely beautiful Miss Lily Bart. A rich young lady, who cannot leave her wealthy habits even after she is rendered penniless and who wishes to marry a rich guy. I found Lily to be like Marie Antoinette. When women aren’t exposed to the outside world and they have been brought up in a closed community and are uneducated, they cannot be expected to have foresight or worldly wisdom. Though Lily moves in glamorous party circles and socialites, what goes through the mind of Lily Bart amidst all this is depressing. A young girl who has nobody to guide her, who has been brought up with wealthy materialistic habits cannot suddenly change her ways of life and her outlook (and outfits!). The society of that era looked at women as marriable objects who would later bear children. Moreover, women are easily labelled, blamed, accused, and ostracised. In the current era women, if educated, can get some jobs. But in that era when women didn’t even go to schools and weren’t allowed to work the scene is deplorable
I recommend this book to one and all as one needs to be aware of women's life, historically, be it rich or poor.
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY!!