A Man's Requirements

By Elizabeth Barret Browning

"Thus,if thou wilt prove me, Dear, Woman's love no fable.
I will love thee-half a year- As a man is able"

Women in Victorian times were considered as inferior if they are compared to men. They did not have the chance to give their opinios or ideas, even telling their likes and dislikes. In this poem, women are shown as an object that can be sold to men, for women have to fullfill all the requirements to get married. When men choose a wife, they not only have to look pretty to be selected by them but also be perfect as men want them to be. I believe that due to the fact the author is a woman, she criticizes in a sacarstic manner, the way women were treated in this period.