Kristen Santiago

English

6 January, 04:30

She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother's, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager-a fat, loose-lipped man-guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting-no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. He hinted-you can imagine what. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even seek her dinner in a tavern or roam the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women. - A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf What is the central idea of this passage about Shakespeare's imaginary sister, Judith? Women were treated with disrespect by men most of the time. Women were treated equally and their intellect was acknowledged. Women did not have the same privileges and opportunities as men. Women could become whatever they wanted, including playwrights.