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2.4. The Concept of Common Victorian Women
In 19
th
century, the image of ideal women had been fixed in the society. First, a woman was considered to be normal if they got married and they did
expect to do it. She wished to settle down with her husband and made a home together. She decorated the house and cared for the children a woman surely
was expected to give birth children. Gorsky 1992 gives information that a man wanted his woman pure, charming, sympathetic, domestic, self-sacrificing,
subservient or gives much respect, to be an Angel of the House. Men really appreciated and praised obedient, submissive, helpless and innocent women.
Even in facing the facet of sick and dying, the women at that time took responsibility for nursing with little medicine and no training. They faced the
death with sentimental, domestic and religious feeling. In this paper, I use the concept of the common Victorian women in order
to show the different characters that Miss Pross and Madame Defarge have in Charles Dickens’ A Talc of Two Cities. Their different characters, which are
different from the general women at that time, may explain that Miss Pross and Madame Defarge actually step ahead of their time. It seems that these two female
characters break the old norms bravely and dare to improve themselves as human being who have the same position and right with men.
2.5. The Definition of Love and Hate
Because of the complexity of these two strong feelings in human life, love and hate have several definitions. In 1956, Fromm explains that love is a kind of
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action and a practical human power, which can only exist in the freedom of human life. He also stated that only a productive person who can experience love,
since giving is the highest expression of the potentiality inside of her self. For Fromm, by giving, this woman also feels that she has richness to give to others
and therefore, she feels the happiness in her life. Meanwhile, according to Albin 1983, hate is a kind of emotion that becomes the opposite of love. Smedes
19S4 also states that hate can happen because of the condition in which certain people hurt her and therefore, she feels that she has the right to hate them. Many
people experience an aggressive hatred, which Smedes 1984 confirms as a kind of hatred that motivates us to harm the people whom we hate.
Indra Ismayudi Tanjung : A Comparison Between Miss Pross And Madame Defarge In Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of
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3. A COMPARISON BETWEEN MISS PROSS AND MADAME DEFARGE IN CHARLES DICKENS’ A TALE OF TWO CITIES
