Week Four

This week, the work I found most interesting was Tennyson's "The Woman's Cause is Man's." It shows the beginnings of feminism budding in the Victorian Era, showing the progressive nature of society in that time. It is especially nice to see a man who is an advocate for women, using his influence to change other men's views about woman's role.

I will say that this poem is not very feminist by today's standards. The poem suggests that marriage is the only good option for men and women and that woman's sole use is as a wife and mother. However, in the Victorian period, career women were not commonplace, and saying that women should be independent would have scared them away, most women included.