Thursday, March 5, 2015

How are Vivie and her mother alike and how are they different in Mrs. Warren's Profession?

Both Vivie and her mother are successful career women who
take practical steps to make their ways in the world. Mrs. SWarren flouts Victorian
convention in running a brothel. She is unconventional both in her activity and her
authority. Vivie, in studying math at Cambridge and planning to run her own business
remains true to her maternal inheritance of independence. Both women, however, are
hampered in their relationships with each other by residual conventionalities of
thought, Vivie in her shock at the brother and Mrs. Warren in her conventional
understanding of family. For Shaw, the similarities in limitations of both women are a
dramatization of the way the "new woman" requires not just the legal freedom to own and
run a business, but a full transformation of familial and societal structures to achieve
her potential.

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