Victorian Women

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes, the readings, "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy, "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, and "The Odd Women" by George Gissing. Specifically, it shows how Victorian women were willing to struggle for emancipation, even if it meant dying for it. Victorian women had to live under many societal constraints, which kept them subservient and shackled to their relationships. When women struck out for independence and vitality, they were crushed by an unbending Victorian society whose mores did not encourage personal growth and transformation for women.

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"Each of these novels portray a different facet of Victorian women, however, ultimately the females in these three works all suffer from the constraints of Victorian society, and each one struggles for emancipation and equality in her own way. Each woman lives outside the "norm" of Victorian society and works to become self-actualized long before it was a recognized or accepted concept."

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