Question

"She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manage - a fat, loose-lipped man - guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting - no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress." - What comparison was Virginia Woolf making here, based on the time period in which she lived?
a) She was comparing male and female acting roles in the victorian era.
b) She was showing how men treated women terribly from one era to the next.
c) Women during Shakespeare's time period had similar limitations placed on them as women it in the victorian time period.
d) Women have been ridiculed in every time period.

Answer 1

I would say C due to the fact that in that time period it was unheard of for women to be actors. Men would play female parts in a play if necessary