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>19th century novel
>woman has a fit of hysterics

>> No.15273165
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>>15273129
>21st century novel
>woman is a figment of the author’s imagination

>> No.15273185

>>15273165
Name two

>> No.15273240

Well, this was the realist movement after all.

>> No.15273245

>>15273129
Women have hysterics all the time. Except now we call them "bipolar" or "manic depressive". These are largely female conditions.

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>2020 real life
>every fucking day
>woman has a fit of hysterics

>> No.15273274

>>15273245
bipolar has the same rate in both sexes. It's Borderline that is something like 3x as prevalent in women.

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>pre 20th century novel
>character gets stressed and dies from a fever afterwards

>> No.15273296

>>15273274
You're right, I confused the BPD acronym with bipolar.

>> No.15273299

>>15273185
Steppen and Wolf

>> No.15273308

>19th century
>female dies of sadness

>> No.15273396

*swoons*

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>>15273308
>21st century
>female dies of sadness

>> No.15273463

>>15273129
>Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre

>> No.15273475

>real life
>woman has a fit of hysterics

>> No.15273489

>ancient Greek tragedy
>gifted with prophecy
>become a sex slave

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>19ty century novel
>Man pines for rural life

>> No.15273497

>Novel from any century
>Woman is a worthless whore
Just like real life

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>>15273129
>>15273396
>19th century romance
>Woman swoons
>Has to be carried to safety by male rescuer

Why doesn't modern fiction do this? It's a great way to make female characters look vulnerable, especially if they seemed unattainable or emotionally unflappable beforehand. It also helps show that male characters have heroic qualities.

When a women faints, her life is entirely in your hands. Instead of taking advantage of her unconsciousness, you take her to safety like a gentleman. When she recovers, she will be grateful to have a strong man to catch her when she falls and fall in love with you on her own accord.

Why does modern fiction always portray women as competant professionals? When's the last time you read about a women fainting or going into hysterics in a work of modern literature?

>> No.15273653

Their periods make them intrinsically unstable, and menopause can really screw them up emotionally. That is why women are urually poor executives or leaders.

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15274045

>Russian novel
>man beats peasant to death

>> No.15274096

>>15273262
no sweaty that's normal behavior now. and if you don't like the resting bitchface you need to man up and look at your own choices.

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>>15273245
No, they're trying to withdraw diagnosis that pathologize neuroticism as today those who err to colorful expressive tendencies serve an anti-revolutionary function.

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>>15273129
>20th century novel
>atleast 1 character has tuberculosis

>> No.15275283

>>15273185
my autobiography