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Women came to marriage with the expectation of enriching their husbands' lives and of bringing them happiness by their constant doting. The thought of the time was that men needed affectionate support from women because of their inconsistent character that lacked a solid foundation. Women, therefore, were to provide men with love, perhaps the kind a mother would give to her child, to remove all of the harmful obstacles that stood in their path and to give men full rein to good instincts. But there were anomalies
to this. "While society regarded women as its moral "If there is one thing that nature teaches us beyond any doubt, it is that woman is made to be protected, to live with her mother while still a girl and as a wife under the protection and authority of her husband…Women are made to hide their lives" (Perrot, 253). |
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