Mistress Of The Art Of Death Essay

The Mistress of the Art of Death by: Ariana Franklin There were many takeaways from The Mistress of the Art of Death. The biggest takeaway from the novel was that women have always been struggling for equality, and even in medieval times women have been trying to break the hold of the title of being a women. In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Adelia. Adelia is the main protagonist in the novel and is not only a doctor but an expert in discovering the way of someone's death, where is happened and even who or what killed them. She was found on Mount Vesuvius and raised in Salerno. She goes through a lot of adversity in the book to just do her job and do it well just because she is a woman. In the beginning, when they have not …show more content…
It really showed that even when women were persecuted by men and religions they can do whatever they want. The book gives a strong sense of feminism through Adelia and can be very relatable at times to women now, she is a smart young lady who was sent to do a job that no one else could do but yet she was still persecuted for it by people in Britain who didn’t believe that women were smart. Adelia was a very strong main character to relate to, she lived in a time harder for women to live in than today and still managed to overcome the fact that she was a women in that time period. It isn’t just a book about a women overcoming adversity to do her job, The Mistress of the Art of Death was a thrilling mystery of the murder of children in Cambridge, England. She used the science of forensics to figure out who killed the children. This book demonstrates a clear picture as to why men should not underestimate women, even though they still do. The book doesn't just talk about how women were persecuted in medieval times but also how people of different religions were persecuted. The Jews were thought to be the ones doing the killing of the children in the beginning of the