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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
I couldn't look on D'Artagnan's behaviour towards both Milady and her servant Kitty as anything other than utterly despicable. Presumably we were supposed to think that Kitty didn't matter because she was, after all, only a servant, and that Milady was so evil that she deserved anything that might be done to her. It says a lot about the attitudes towards women at the time the book was written, rather than just the period in which it was set.
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This is something I wondered about--were the attitudes those of the mid-1800s or those of the mid-1600s?
Milady certainly wasn't admirable, but on the other hand, what choices did a woman on her own have? She was tough and a survivor.