Katherine Russell In Geoffrey Trease's Cue For Treaon

Throughout the history of the copious types of societies across our vast world, many cultures denounced women in comparison to their male counterparts. As views changed and continued to evolve over time, many areas around the world began to gradually adopt perspectives aligned more so with equality. In Geoffrey Trease's novel, Cue for Treason, one of the protagonists, Katherine Russell, whom in Elizabethan England, embarked on an adventurous and life-threatening journey as an advocate for equality. As a result of her odyssey, she repeatedly portrayed herself as a capable, daring and intelligent person, and therefore, a remarkable ambassador for equality.
In Elizabethan England, equality was constantly reinforced amongst the society: one exception to this prominent rule was for Russell. While it is illegal during the aforementioned time period for women to act, Katherine displays her daringness in one instant by taking on an appearance of a boy in order to portray a woman can act as skillfully as men. Moreover, during her experience, she encountered an instance where she required stitches; despite the agony that paralleled her experience, she displays her and females' …show more content…
Despite this reinforced law, this was far too minuscule to force Katherine to succumb to cultural norms. Not only did she successfully prove her daringness by externally appearing as a man to reinforce the strength of women, therefore, providing a case for how women and men are equal, but she also took a colossal risk in joining the Queen's Secret Service. Russell exhibits her audaciousness and intelligence by partaking in the service in order to spare the Queen's life; her daringness is further shown by furiously running from her guardian who treated her poorly. Ultimately, this provides for a strong case for equality, displaying the capabilities of women are comparable to that of