Women's Role In Society Depending on a womans role or class in society, she could be restricted or praised by her words and actions. As in almost any civilization, money brings certain advantages, the greatest one of the Renaissance times being education. The upper class women were taught that silence towards and obligation to their husbands was considered proper. Eloquence was equivalent to silence in the male frame of mind. Keeping with the theme of male dominance, it has been said that "Womans attempt to rule is an act of treason." (2) Any act of liberation was seen as a violation against God, otherwise the people they called "men"(2). The speech of a woman has been compared to "the naked of her limbs" (4)inferring the spoken thought of a woman with any basis in intellect would be shameful, embarrassing or something even to look down upon. Therefore,because any outward act of in....

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