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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn Wilkie Collins' mystery novel, The Woman in
White, he depicts the nineteenth century's realities
which place and treat women unfairly. The two main
female characters in the story, Laura Fairlie and
Marian Halcombe, abide in this unfavorable era as two
different Victorian women. Laura is the ideal
Victorian woman who has feminine qualities. She is
unjustly and cruelly treated by the male characters
but she is incapable to fight or to defend herself.
Meanwhile, Marian, with her strong qualities is there
to always provide Laura with help and protection for
she believes in the equality of rights between men and
women. Through the use of a related theory of
femininity and feminism in the nineteenth century as
well as theories of characterization and conflict, the
writer would reveal their different character traits
and different ways in dealing with the problems in
Victorian society to find the idea of femininity in
Laura and the idea of feminism in Marian.