Gender Roles

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Jane Eyre (from Jane Eyre), Natalya Petrovna (from Three Days in the Country), and Rosalind Franklin (from Photograph 51) all played the female lead in each of their respective plays. Despite this similarity, there are many differences between these roles. The list of difference would include the following: their individual personality, influence from the male lead, and the time period of when the play took place. All of these key differences have made a contributing factor to not only the progress of their respective plays, but it is also what makes each of these characters unique to their roles. Based on these three plays, an argument could be made where the character’s upbringing in some sense influence how these roles came to be. In Jane …show more content…
In all three plays, the key catalyst to cause a spark in these female leads was the fact that all three of these plays take place in a male dominant society. In Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester became one of the prominent role in the play due to the romantic relationship that he develops with Eyre. At first, Eyre resisted this relationship due to the employer-employee relationship that they had, but eventually, she accepted this love. In Three Days in the Country, there was a love triangle formed between Petrovna, and two male characters, the tutor and the family friend. In this triangle, Petrovna becomes “an object of desire” because two men are fighting for the same women, but eventually, Petrovna’s husband eventually comes in to tell the two men to leave with Petrovna having very little say in what could have been done. Lastly, in Photograph 51, Dr. Wilkins was Franklin’s colleague and he wanted to collaborate with her, but his offer was always rejected. This is mainly because Franklin knows that she is working in a male dominant field and in order to show her worth, Franklin attempts to outperform her male