Entry #1 Why I choose the feminist lens

For the book Beloved I choose to choose the feminist lens because of the time that it takes place. It takes place in the late 1800's and this is really important due to how woman were portrayed in those days. In those days women were in a way slaves in many ways often controlled by men there entire lives from there father to there husbands to the rest of their life. There was no way out of marriage until 1891 and usually were committed and with the same husband for the rest of their life. My personal belief is that women should never be controlled like in this time and we could learn a lot by actually studying women roles in this time period and seeing how we could learn from previous mistakes. I also considered doing the Marxist lens because of the giant social economic gaps in those times and the Marxist lens looks at it through social economic lens. I am hoping to get a better understanding of the late 1800's since I really never looked at that time period and learn how women were treated.