Women in Tickets Please are More Assertive than Those in Tony Kyters, The Arch Deceiver

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Women in Tickets Please are More Assertive than Those in Tony Kyters, The Arch Deceiver

'Tickets Please' was written by D.H. Lawrence in the ending phase of

World War One a time when women were beginning to realise that they

were equal citizens to men and that they did not have to stay at the

houses cooking for a loving husband. The protagonists of this short

story are Annie a rather well build woman who has a way with the

opposite sex and also knows fully well that she is feared as the

ringleader of the pack of women that now haunt the tram tracks of the

Midlands, and there is also John Thomas a somewhat good-looking man

who - knowing that most men are off at helping in the war effort -

realises that he has all the women at his back and call. John Thomas

also enjoys his female attention and is really quiet a flirt. The

women in 'Tickets Please' are feared by men of a bigger stature than

themselves but why? This is because they have an aura around them that

creates a sense of masculinity that comes with there job.

On the other hand we have 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' written by

Thomas Hardy the women are totally the opposite to the women mentioned

above they bow low and are treated as second class citizens that are

lower in the rankings of society than the all dominant male. They

instantly follow Tony's commands to sit in the back of the wagon and

never argue back. They seem fragile and weak, and eager to settle down

and marry.

One of the reasons for this dramatic change in character development

is that both stories are set in different periods which significantly

effects the women in the stories sense of pride in there sex. The

girls in 'Tickets Please are 'fearless young hussies' compared to the

women in 'Tony Kytes, The Arch-Deceiver' who wouldn't dare answer back

to a male. 'Tony Kytes' women are portrayed as dainty, neat, fragile,

light hearted women who have no real reason to be on the face of the

earth apart from creating more males. The reason they is portrayed in

this way is due to the periods that they are set in. One as mentioned

above is in World war 1, and the other was in the early 18th Century.

These periods are totally different as one is in the face of total war

and the other is in the peaceful reign of queen Victoria. In World War

One women took on new responsibilities which meant that the had to

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