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Declaration Of Independence

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The American Declaration of Independence tells the People that everyone is created equally, yet simply looking at a history book disproves that statement. American history in itself is redundant when an individual looks at the meaning of “freedom.” From allowing African-Americans to vote all the way to finally allowing women to, the United States of America has a thing or two to learn about equality. However, this is not simply just an American concept. In the Victorian era, there was a famous poet by the name of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Tennyson was a Victorian poet who was very well noted for his poetry in England. He replaced Wordsworth as the poet laureate of England. In this time of Victorian tradition, the patriarchy is still in solid position. This concept was derived from Aristotle and stems from the ways of ancient Greek thinking. The pyramid-looking hierarchy places a deity at the top, followed by men, and finally women. In a physical sense, it puts women as a gender below men. This mindset was accepted globally …show more content…

While the past was riddled with misogyny, the present is beginning to look a lot brighter. However, it is the future that Tennyson is encouraging the reader to look towards. Even though the Lady of Shalott died, her plight was not in vain. This sends a message to the readers of today very similar to that of the people of England in the nineteenth century. By having the woman escape her castle only to be destroyed by the curse, it suggests that even if there are sacrifices, the desire for Camelot is becoming a tangible option. When Tennyson sulkily writes, “Lying robed in snowy white....As the boathead wound along the willowy hills and fields among, they heard her singing her last song, The Lady of Shalott, (Page 967, lines 136, 141-144)” he suggests her song of freedom will not die with her. The ringing sounds of liberty and equality stay with the women fighting to break the

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