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Central Idea Evidence Tracking Tool ("A Room of One's Own",…
Central Idea Evidence Tracking Tool
"A Room of One's Own"
"... She found herself with child by that gentleman and so - who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - killed herself one winter's night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibuses now stop outside the Elephant and Castle." (Page 50)
This shows that if a woman were to have a child out of wedlock, she would have been shamed. Since there weren't any real ways to abort a baby, women usually killed themselves.
"... for chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons - but were none the less inevitable. Chastity had then, it has even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest." (Page 51)
This shows how important it was for women to be chaste/virgins if they weren't married during Shakespeare's time and even Woolf's time. Women weren't brave enough to express their sexuality openly.
"Soon, however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be betrothed to the son of a neighbouring woolstapler. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was severely beaten by her father." (page 49)
Women had arranged marriages when they were still young without their consent. If they weren't submissive/obedient, they faced severe consequences.
"But she was not sent to school. She had no chance of learning grammar and logic... but then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew and not moon about with books and papers." (Page 49)
Women were not able to pursue their education. This meant that gifted/genius women were not able to develop their talent. This led to genius women becoming mentally unstable.
"My Last Duchess"
"Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without much the same smile? This grew, I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together. " (44-46)
This shows the role of men thinking they had to have power and control in their relationships/marriage.
"She had a heart-how shall I say?-too easily impressed; she liked whate'er she looked on, her looks went everywhere." (Browning Lines 22-24)
"Even had you skill in speech-(which I have not)-to make your will" (Browning Line 35-36)
"If she let herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse,-e'en then would be some stooping; and I choose never to stoop." (Browning Line 39-42)
Hamlet
'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature,
Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father.
[…] but to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief.
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschooled:
(1.2.90-92; 96-101)
It was a male gender role to be "manly" and emotionally and mentally strong if someone close to them died.
HAMLET
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murdered,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A stallion!
(2.2.611-616)
Hamlet was fueled by revenge and his emotional/mental weakness in becoming insane.