Question

In a room of one's own, woolf explains that many families in the late 1400s arranged marriages. she later tells a story about shakespeare's hypothetical sister who had his genius but whose family would not allow her to develop it. which best states the claim that this information helps to develop?

Answer 1

Historically, women have little control over how they live their lives

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer would be that in a society where men have ruled almost all  aspects of life, including literature, and where women have been idealized but in reality sumbmitted to the will of men, a woman who has the same ability as a man, especially for writing, would have no chance to develop her skills as she would be considered exclusively for the home and home tasks.

Explanation:

"A Room of One´s Own" is an essay written by Virginia Woolf, in 1929, based on lectures that she delivered at Newnham and Girton colleges, at Cambridge University. In it, Woolf exposes not just the situation of all women throughout history as downtrodden and mistreated people, who have not been allowed to develop their skills, even if they have them, but how they have always been at a disadvantage when compared to men, even if these women may have the same, or even better, abilities than men, and she uses the example of such characters as William Shakespeare, and an invented sister, Judith, who has the same skills as her brother, but who is never able to develop them because she is only deemed fit for housework. However, she also exposes the irony that despite having always been controlled by men, women have been given, especially in literature, a predominance and importance, that has seldom been seen in reality.