1. Victorian literature
... within" and let the man do the fighting, she must support him and rule their minds rather than in physical way, the husband must do the fighting because it is in "their nature". The man prefers the wife to stay at home and be a good mother, to be "tender and delicate" (para 14). It is a safe haven for the man; an escape from the horrors of the world outside the home; greed and ... murder are some of the examples Ruskin gives. Ruskin's tone of voice ... of Solomon, 4:16, "Come, though south, and breathe upon my garden, that the spices of it may flow out". In paragraph 16 Ruskin keeps up...
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