We can continue on for a longer period of time to get more in-depth on the origin of gender inequality in religion, but let us go onto the focus of the 19th century. British literature displays the opinion of marriage, and that opinion isn’t the highest of standards. Katherine Phillips shows such in her poem “Friendship”. Phillips begins by defining love, explaining how love is in nature and in the heavens, which flows off into the earth (Line 5-13). Then, she explains how love is a misconception on earth, due to her low opinion of marriage (Line 29-34), and that true love is shown through friendship. Love is misinterpreted into something that is not sincere since love is supposed to be the base of marriage. Friendship is held high in her
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Even in today’s society, it is a goal to fall in love and marry your best friend, someone who allows you to be yourself and can be more than just the title of “spouse”. That seems clearly impossible during the 19th century. Phillips has the great idea that friendship should be the basis of a marriage, but with gender inequality and the fact that men were seen to be so much more superior than the female species, that is close to impossible. Phillips writes another poem, “To the truly competent Judge of Honour”, that really goes in-depth of the trials and tribulations of the abuse of a women’s honor. It starts off by stating how honor differs from man to man, and it is common to misunderstand all good things (line 1-4). She goes on to say how to say how humans use symbolism for God, and women’s symbolism of God is their husbands, whether they are a beast or a bird (line 5-8). So “God”, or men, give out their laws, and the laws are those that are not even suitable to a man, but in a standard much bellows that. As a sacrifice, men make their women disguise their true self, and imprison the women to not even have an opinion (line 8-11). Men have the complete control to build a woman up, or to completely destroy
Even in today’s society, it is a goal to fall in love and marry your best friend, someone who allows you to be yourself and can be more than just the title of “spouse”. That seems clearly impossible during the 19th century. Phillips has the great idea that friendship should be the basis of a marriage, but with gender inequality and the fact that men were seen to be so much more superior than the female species, that is close to impossible. Phillips writes another poem, “To the truly competent Judge of Honour”, that really goes in-depth of the trials and tribulations of the abuse of a women’s honor. It starts off by stating how honor differs from man to man, and it is common to misunderstand all good things (line 1-4). She goes on to say how to say how humans use symbolism for God, and women’s symbolism of God is their husbands, whether they are a beast or a bird (line 5-8). So “God”, or men, give out their laws, and the laws are those that are not even suitable to a man, but in a standard much bellows that. As a sacrifice, men make their women disguise their true self, and imprison the women to not even have an opinion (line 8-11). Men have the complete control to build a woman up, or to completely destroy