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4/10/1764

Equality Between Classes 

Hello editor,
My name is Eliot and I want to talk about things that concern me, like the inequality between classes, and the fact that women do not have the right to speak and express their feelings in public.

First, I think that the "myth" that men are better than women and deserve better rights and more respect, is just wrong. 
 Women deserve exactly the same rights and respect that men deserve.

Second, it is very humiliating to force someone to pretend to be a guy, just beacuse she wants to be a poet. I believe that I can be a successful poet, but I want the world to know me as a woman and not a man.

To conclude, I think that the thinking of the population must change, beacuse women deserved to be respected by men.
women should get the rights to express themself on public without changing thier's names and hide their's real personality.

count that day lost - Bridging

George Eliot was born in 1819 in Warwickshire, in Victorian England.  The Victorian age was characterized by huge gaps between the classes. Eliot was one of the leading writers of that age, who tried to minimize the gap between the classes.

That information completely changed my understanding of the poem. First, I thought that the poem was modern. I thought that by saying:  "brought the sunshine to one face" the writer meant  minor actions, like helping your brother clean the room or helping your mother cook dinner.

Now that I know the poem is very old and was written at a different era, I know that the poet didint relate too small actions. she meant that every day you need to help to improve the society and help the lower classes, who lived in extreme poverty at that time.

To conclude, the information changed my whole perspective about the poem, and helped me undrerstand that the poet meant different things than I thought she meant.

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Daphna