One of the main themes of Wolf's text is how society does not provide equal opportunities for men and women, preventing talented women from exercising their skills by producing something valuable for humanity. To represent this theme, she states that if Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, she would never be able to write stories, as she could not learn to read and write and even if she did, people would not value what she would write because she was a woman, even if she writes better than her brother.
