Shakespeare et le genre
Aphra Behn was born around 1640 and died in 1689, thus living in a period called the Modern Age when people focused on going back to the roots of Christianism hence considered both religion and social life. The rise of public fear and domestic fear was the result of a huge backlash both social and economical for women. Joan Kelly, a prominent historian who wrote Did women have a Renaissance? tackled the rise of conduct books for women, sermons and local justice as the reason why women's cultural role was on the decline. While marriage was seen as a career, Aphra Behn only stayed married for a few years and decided to become a spy after her husband died of the plague. After spending some time in prison, she decided …show more content…
They can beat, murder, and rape -just like anyone else. Feminists need to acknowledge these points and still support them to have equal rights and opportunities as men. In her works, Aphra Behn speaks about women's rights demanding for them to speak their minds. They must use their wit in order to have what they want. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) in her poem Eve's Apology in Defence of Women published in 1611 uses her rhetoric in order to prove the innocence of the person blamed for the Original Sin. In this poem Lanyer uses theological arguments to defend the first sinner, denouncing the misogynistic views of the Church towards …show more content…
This highly fictionalized novel illustrates the violence of slave trade and the corruption of primitive peoples by hypocritical Christian colonisers. It shows violence and cruelty, and it defends the savage, instead of showing the English as superior. Thus, not only is she ahead of her time regarding her feminist views, but she is also regarding her anticolonialist
Aphra Behn was born around 1640 and died in 1689, thus living in a period called the Modern Age when people focused on going back to the roots of Christianism hence considered both religion and social life. The rise of public fear and domestic fear was the result of a huge backlash both social and economical for women. Joan Kelly, a prominent historian who wrote Did women have a Renaissance? tackled the rise of conduct books for women, sermons and local justice as the reason why women's cultural role was on the decline. While marriage was seen as a career, Aphra Behn only stayed married for a few years and decided to become a spy after her husband died of the plague. After spending some time in prison, she decided …show more content…
They can beat, murder, and rape -just like anyone else. Feminists need to acknowledge these points and still support them to have equal rights and opportunities as men. In her works, Aphra Behn speaks about women's rights demanding for them to speak their minds. They must use their wit in order to have what they want. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) in her poem Eve's Apology in Defence of Women published in 1611 uses her rhetoric in order to prove the innocence of the person blamed for the Original Sin. In this poem Lanyer uses theological arguments to defend the first sinner, denouncing the misogynistic views of the Church towards …show more content…
This highly fictionalized novel illustrates the violence of slave trade and the corruption of primitive peoples by hypocritical Christian colonisers. It shows violence and cruelty, and it defends the savage, instead of showing the English as superior. Thus, not only is she ahead of her time regarding her feminist views, but she is also regarding her anticolonialist