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• Click on Close Header and Footer

                                                                                            Thornton 1

Mary Thornton

Professor Robert Brown

English 160

21 October 2005

   Paternalism and Middle-Class Charity in The Moonstone 

IIn Wilke Collins' novel, The Moonstone, class structure and gender role definition are two interconnected and

fundamental issues within the text. Nineteenth-century British protest and reform movements were undermining

traditional principles and circumstances of employment, criminal justice, law, religion and education. In this

environment, women of the upper and middle-classes were presented with new and conflicting roles in both the public

and private spheres. Upper-class women, traditionally aligned with paternalism, watched over their domestic servants

and used their wealth to do philanthropic work. Middle-class women, an increasing segment of the population, used

their growing influence to try to improve the conditions of the poor. These two groups ...