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Question: ‘In The Wife of Martin Guerre the main reason for everyone’s suffering is that Martin selfishly leaves his family.’ Discuss.
Answer: In Seventeen century France the women are viewed as the property of man. They are powerless in the male dominated society. The high feudal and strictly patriarchal society of which Janet Lewis’s novella ‘The Wife of Martin Guerre’ is set in shows that the women are bound to the man as goods and chattels. When Martin Guerre leaves his young wife Bertrande and his family to pursuit freedom, he has ‘deeply wounded’ her. Though he is the main reason for everyone’s suffering there are others who are also responsible in this tragic story....(short extract)
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Details: Mark: 69% | Subject: English Literature | Course: English Literature | Level: A-Level | Year: Not applicable | Document type: Essay* | Words: 785 | References: No | Date written: Not available | Date submitted: July 26, 2009 | Essay ID: 1924
