Fatherhood ought to be emphasized as much as motherhood. The idea that women are solely responsible for deciding whether or not to have babies leads on to the idea that they are also responsible for bringing the children up"
...e same responsibilities in their families. Last but not least, the physical reproductive organs in man and woman give the universe an illusion about the accountabilities . Anne is surrounded with typical women of nobility, and those who wish they were. Anne's sister, Mary, has become a hypochondriac to get the attention she thinks she deserves and does not receive. Elizabeth, Anne's other sister, has become obsessed with being the lady of Kellynch Hall. Lady Russell, though she tries to appear intelligent and self-reliant, is not as learned in life lessons as Anne. She also "had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them." These women are not a well-developed group of role models for women in modern terms. Though everyone has faults, these three women felt more a sense of duty to be what women had always been than to become people themselves, and live lives of their choosing. They all needed something or someone else to te...