The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a very interesting play. This was the first play that kept me captivated the whole time. Previous plays that I had watched were very boring, and I wouldn't pay attention to them, but this play was great overall. The casts' acting was very on point, and really helped make the story seem realistic. On the other hand, I thought the story was pretty typical. Helen, who fell in love with a man who on the inside was not as good of a person that he portrayed on the outside. She ended up being abused her whole marriage, and ran away from him, and met another man who had interest in her, but was skeptical of accepting him because of her trauma from her marriage. But the husband eventually dies and Helen opens up to Gilbert and they start an official romantic relationship. I thought Helen was a very powerful female icon, because of the way she took charge of her life, which was very unusual for a woman to do in that time. Helen was the first to stand up for herself and take control of her own life, instead of letting a man do it. What she did seemed very atrocious to everyone around her since it was a male-dominant society; but as we look around today there are many girls that are like Helen today. I feel that Helen is what we would call a feminist; someone who believes in equal rights for women.