I really liked this reading, because it lists all the practical and logical reasons why a women at that time wasn't able to write. Females weren't allowed to go to school. They were expected to marry earlier, have babies, and live their lives under their husband's rule. Back then knowledge in a female was appalling. Their opinion were ignored. Males didn't want their wives to be smarted than them. They didn't have any rights or freedoms that males did. They couldn't let their creativity free, they were oppressed into a life that revolved around males and only males. If I had to live in that life period, life would be unbearable. I love reading, but to have that hobby snatched away and replace with house hold chores that were expected of women to handle, would be depressing. If I couldn't go to school and learn or let my creativity free (your gift or skill)- I don't know what I would do.
Learning is one of the most... beautiful thing in the world. By learning, we get our knowledge of the world and form our opinions. We socialize and let our opinions be known. Its one way we establish our presence in the society. To have your thoughts acknowledge is a matter of knowing your life has made an impact on the world. And if I couldn't use me gift/skill/talent whether writing, drawing, dancing...etc. free-I would be denying who I was. So I kind of understand why the fictional sister of Shakespeare killed herself in the end-she couldn't write. It was her gift, her one passion in life- it was who she was and she was denied because of her gender. She was in a way murder by society, because of its gender role way of life. When her sex was found to be female, her life was already mapped out.
This is a good, thoughtful reaction to the reading.
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