Today's standards on how to treat human beings is drastically different than it had been in the past. Taking advantage of those who were seen as weaker happened regularly, especially those of the opposite gender to men. There are many examples of this while looking through history, but in this essay we will be focusing on a short story written by John Collier, “The Chaser”. This passage was written during the 1940s, which was not always pleasant for women. In the text it focuses on a gentlemen's attempt to seduce a woman who was not interested. The two characters in the story are a young man who goes by the name of Alan Austen, and an old man who’s name does not appear. Austen has had his eyes on a woman that he was extremely infatuated with,
