The era of Biedermeier was symbolic of a time that depicts values, philosophical, and political ideas. This is evident in Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience which spoke to the escalating concern of prostitution in a way that viewed it as unmoral or a mistake a person should never have been making. This is comparable Landseer’s Windsor Caste in the aspects of female subordinate, but starkly contrasts in the moral values of the women. While woman is a devoted mother and wife, the other is a ‘free spirit’. While the previous two focus on specifically the morality of women, Hunt’s The Hireling Shepard focuses on the Shepard in an allegorical sense in which the Shepard is representative of a priest who has selfishly turned his back on his flock. While
