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Originally Posted by bfisher
Yes, the novel drips with misogyny. No women in this novel get any respect. Dumas basically equates women with servants, and says they must be beaten to be trained properly:
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That seems a penny for a pound to how Dumas treated most of his women. They were commodities - marriageable or otherwise. I realize that this is partially a product of the system that divested women of all their property and vested it into a husband at marriage, but it does not make it any less palatable.