Molly Nashan Mr. Hartley CA IV 21 September 2016 Unit 2 Essay Before the introduction of Christianity, the Anglo-Saxon society was a cold, dark place. Like in the early years of America, women were treated more as property then actual humans. InThe Wife’s Lament the speaker grieving because her husband died and she left her home, she’s almost hopeless, but when she gets a second husband, things change. When the speaker stated Very often we boasted that none but death alone would drive us apart! she was hopeful that this is where is would get her so-called happy ending. However that was not the case because her husband got tired of her and she was soon exiled from her second home into a grove of wood under an oak tree in an earth
