The Ruined Maid

Question 1

Typicality

Answer 1

• women must be refined
• women having sex outside marriage- fallen women/ ruined + shunned by families/society
• women’s rights/opportunites limited so turned to prostitution- seen as a threat to morality
• women inferior to men, submissive, silent, chastity
• virtue and virginity synonymous (same thing)
• virtue located in hymen - hardy reverts by saying its in the soul