The Melancholy

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The melancholy hussar was set in the 19th century in 1801. This was a time were woman had no lives of there own and this show’s the character of Phyllis in ‘melancholy hussar’. Phyllis’s father treats her as an object. She is not free to do what ever she wants because she is a woman. Thomas hardy illustrates the role of woman in the ‘melancholy hussar’ (1801).

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Woman had no role in society and women were very unimportant.

Steinbeck had written his story during the American depression in the 1930. Life was very hard for men and woman because of migration, unemployment, rootlessness and instability. All these had made people very angry and this had caused racism. Crooks in ‘of mice and men’ also had a very hard life because he was black. Crooks wasn’t wanted near the white men, which had led to racism. On page ‘100’, crooks says to Lennie ‘I aint wanted in the bunkhouse and u aint wanted in my room’, Lennie ...

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