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The School Of Wives Play Analysis

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“The School of Wives” is a play written by Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin). This play is a brilliant comedy leveraging social humor. The play portrays the male gender to be a lot smarter compared to their counterparts and women as ignorant and tools that needs to be ordered around by men. The play uses humor to show us how we should take care of our servants. The same humor is still being used to show the right way of treating our wives. The play concentrates on jealous lovers, Horace and Arnolphes
“The Enchantment of Love”, written by Maria de Zayas, aims to change the way women and men think, mostly by highlighting how men talk about and treat women by focusing on experiences of women.
In both books women are viewed as inferior beings. …show more content…

Agnes has made up her mind on who to love as the influence of love changed her mind. This is because she was brought up in a convent. Chrysalde utters noble sentiments that are in favor of the cultivation of making a woman the intellectual equal of a man showing that he supports the contemporary feminist perspective.
There is the theme of brutal rape and violence against women in ‘The Enchantment of Love’. This is where the male character don Carlos seduces the beautiful Octavia and promised a marriage although he doesn’t have any intention of marrying. Her father arranges a marriage with someone else, and one day Don Juan breaks into the apartment and rapes her.
The two books portray women and men in two different situations. The women are believed to be the weaker party. In these texts, women believed everything that the men said they expected when it came to love. Men on the other hand are the decision makers. They dictate how the women will live their lives. There is a sharp contrast between the men and women in the stories. The women characters have originality; frankness and powerful style of making a person read the whole text. Men are portrayed as having moral flaws in their character in both the texts. They are shortsighted and have an ego. Most of them are portrayed as unfaithful. They treat women as their slaves and marry them even if the woman does not love the man. Jonathan and Linsey are like Zak and Stefancia, both the couples are angry at each other but they both love each

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