Compare the ways in which women are portrayed in 'Tony Kytes, the Arch- Deceiver' by Thomas Hardy (1894) and in 'Tickets, Please' by D. H. Lawrence (1922) GCSE A Grade

The short story was a popular genre in Victorian times. Often short stories would be printed in short, weekly chapters in magazines or newspapers, this made then quite popular. Reading these 'chapters' or stories was easy to get into and it was a good form of entertainment at the time. There were more and more people becoming literate at this time so there was a greater demand for short stories. I will be analysing two …

…heir eye on is more concerned about himself and could not return the woman's feeling to the extent they wanted him to. I think the writer's aim were to show how men were classed above women in society and had more power. I think they wanted to show how; even if a women tries to take control, a man can still have power over them, and I think they were successful in showing this.