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The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Essay Topics
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination.
How do Mistress Ford and Mistress Page resist male authority, and how does their resistance reshape domestic and civic power in Windsor? Use textual support to explain your answer.
Compare the Ford and Page marriages. How do trust and jealousy produce different models of household governance? Use specific examples to justify your response.
Compare Slender, Doctor Caius, and Fenton as suitors. What forms of status do they represent, and which does the play endorse? Use textual support to explain your answer.
