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This 8 page paper explores the depiction of gender relations in the novels "Middlemarch" and "Erewhon." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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particularly pointed in their description of gender relations. This paper examines the implied attitudes toward those who do and do not conform to "proper" societal guidelines for gender behavior and
how people who transgress these guidelines are treated. It also examines the way in which such transgressions impact the marriages depicted in the texts. The paper argues that Ehewhon
The title of the book is of course an anagram for "Nowhere," our first hint that this is an unusual book. Indeed it is; Samuel Butlers work is a satire
in the same vein as Jonathan Swifts works. Butler uses a well-known technique, that of a narrator observing an unfamiliar civilization, to make comments about his own society. In this
case, the narrator (Higgs) finds himself in a society in which physical illness is a crime but moral offenses are not seen as presenting any difficulty: "This is what I
gathered. That in that country if a man falls into ill health, or catches any disorder, or fails bodily in any way before he is seventy years old, he
is tried before a jury of his countrymen, and if convicted is held up to public scorn and sentenced more or less severely as the case may be" (Butler, 2005).
People who contract serious illnesses are "punished very heavily," but those who develop some degree of blindness or deafness after age 65 are fined only-presumably because the people understand that
age often brings some degree of infirmity (Butler, 2005). However, what we would consider crimes-forgery, robbery, arson-are treated by hospitalizing the criminal and treating him for immorality (Butler, 2005). His
family and friends visit him to ask "how it all came about, what symptoms first showed themselves, and so forth" and he replies truthfully, "for bad conduct ...is nevertheless held
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