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cndy12
cndy12
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College - Freshman

To what extent did 19th Century French society impose limitations on Mathilde's opportunities to earn money and attain social standing?

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Posted by cndy12 on Tuesday December 2, 2008 at 12:39 PM and tagged with 19th century france, mathilde, setting, the necklace.

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  1. pmiranda2857
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    High School - 11th Grade

    It is logical to assume from the story that Madame Loisel worked at the only jobs that were available to her in order to assist her husband in earning enough money to pay back the loan that was taken to replace the necklace that she lost.

    Without being an aristocrat in this society, women would have very limited opportunities, probably little or no education, so yes the society would have limited her in her efforts to earn money. 

    "The political structure of nineteenth-century France also caused that nation's women's rights movement to lag behind Britain's and America's. The conservative Catholic monarchy of the Bourbon Restoration (1815-30) and Napoleon III's authoritarian Second Empire (1852-70), were less responsive to social innovation, fundamental reform, or the extension of individual rights than were republican America or liberal England. Even when the French finally created an enduring and democratic state, the Third Republic (1871-1940), French politics limited progress toward women's rights."

     

    Sources:
    http://www.enotes.com/feminism-literature/women-19th-cent...

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    Posted by pmiranda2857 on Tuesday December 2, 2008 at 3:00 PM