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Seneca waterfall. This topic in my opinion closely relates to Anne Brontes The inhabit of Wildfell Hall. In 1848, around the same while this novel was published the Seneca Falls womens reclaims convention took place in the United States. They fought for the charrs right to vote and overall equality. It was like men and women lived in different worlds they had to pursue different rules and standards. Men basically had little rule, while women were very oppressed. They couldnt make decisions and own property. Bronte certainly flipped the script with this novel showing the sceptered female through her protagonist Helen Graham.Helen Graham is a young woman who changes her identity when she flees from her alcoholic husband whos been leading a life of corruption. She enters this nosy town who finds her new face to be quite interesting. Her new neighbor, sarin Markham, is terribly fascinated with Helen. At one point I felt that he could be deemed a stalker because she would not giv e him the time of day and he still persisted. Eventually Helen gives him her diary which pours out the confessions of her previously disastrous life and gives way to hope for a new future(a) and helps both Gilbert and the reader understand the pain of this troubled woman.Helen turbulently challenging ideas such as the extreme sheltering of girls, and the extreme exposure of boys, to the pitilessness of the world. We especially see this when Gilbert Markham argues with Helen over the differential treatment of boys and girls and the implied outcomes. Helens antifertility treatment of her son Arthur sparks reaction in Gilbert. Gilberts response to this is to say that and by such means ... you will never render him virtuous. His view is that based on the society in order to prepare boys to be men it is necessary for them to be exposed to the dangers of the world as a means of developing a strong moral character. It is a recur standard for females by the view that girls and women must be protected from the approximative realities of the world in order to protect them from moral distress or tainting. It is this contradiction that Helen addresses, challenging the importance of exposure to use as a strengthening of moral character, and the value of keeping girls in complete ignorance of the worlds viciousness to prevent their corruption.