Escaping Victorian Society

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of what this society expected of women. These ladies are both of high social classes, headstrong, intelligent, and persistent, which made them the type of women men sought out to marry. Cecily Cardew, for instances, is raised in a country setting with her guardian Jack Worthing and Miss Prism, both of which pressures her to do activities she tries to avoid. As a result of her dull routine life, she engages in a romantic fantasy world where she is imagines being engaged to Jack's mischief causing brother, Ernest.
CECILY:....And this the box which I keep all your dear letters. [Kneels at table, opens box, and produces letters tied up with blue ribbon.]
ALGERNON: My letters! But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any
letters.
CECILY: You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. I remember only too well that I was forced to write your letters for you. I always wrote three times a week, and sometimes oftener.
ALGERNON: Oh, do let me read them, Cecily?
CECILY: Oh I ...

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