The Virtuous and Vixenish Dichotomy in Literature - How the composers of Vanity Fair, The Taming of the Shrew and Sense and Sensibility felt about the dichotomy between good and bad women

- Although texts across time have portrayed women in terms of a dichotomy between "good" and "bad", it is frequently unclear exactly how composers feel about that dichotomy. To what extent are the composers of the texts you have studied ambivalent towards their female characters? - Many texts across time have portrayed their women in terms of a dichotomy between "good" and "bad", or "virtuous" and "vixenish". However, it is frequently unclear how the composers feel …

…of the texts explored are all ambivalent towards their female characters, showing their readers that "good" can be seen as "bad" and vice versa, depending on whose point of view we're looking at the women from. There is no strict guidelines for the virtuous and vixenish dichotomy; instead, there is more of a fine line, where the good and the bad can easily overlap, making it hard to distinguish between the virtuous and the vixenish.