The Corruption Of Women During The Victorian Era

During class, the topic of women has been discussed. In the Victorian Time period, women were not thought highly of. For example, people believed that men were lusty beasts and as a result women only had sex with their husbands to satisfy their lust. Women were seen as good for only two things, reproduction, stimulate the sexual desire of a man, maintain the household and care for the children. Women were predominately covered up all of the time and were never supposed to be completely naked as it was seen as a bad thing. In addition, people in the Victorian time period were not educated because they were believed to be fundamentally stupid and unable to be educated. Mill is against the subjection of women and stands up for women’s rights. When Mill met Harriet Taylor in a philosophy discussion group, he saw how intelligent she was. Immediately he was attracted to her and they began a lifetime partnership revolving around intellectual collaboration since Mill was amazed by her intelligence. I think Harriet Taylor played a part in …show more content…
He believes humans are self interested and by being self interested corruption will be more likely to occur. Mill believes you must watch humans like a hawk if you would like to avoid corruption. He believes we are able to minimize corruption by holding elections frequently. Mill also believes that corruption can be minimized by paying our leaders and decision makers well enough so that they are able to live life comfortably, therefore, eliminating the need to accept bribes. As discussed earlier, Mill believes that people are self absorbed, therefore leading to his belief that we must watch officials closely to ensure they are doing what is best for the people and not themselves. He also believes that if an official is found participating in corrupt behavior, they should be severely punished which will deter other officials from doing the