women in war

I would certainly have to agree when it’s said that women during Elizabethan England didn’t have much control of their lives. Most of the women during such times were under control or live on other people's orders and the rules of community or country. They have no control of their lives as decisions are made mostly by the one that is from a higher rank or more powerful and even parents.

Let’s just take a look at the nurse who works for Viola’s family. I would have to say that the nurse doesn't actually have a life of her own. She didn’t have the choice to choose the career that she wants as she came from the lower class. She had no choice but to spent her life working as a nursemaid to serve and take good care of her master's daughter, Viola. She was given no chance to make a choice of her own but to obey every single word the master or even Viola said. What was worse was that the nurse also doesn't get to choose who to love. She couldn't marry an actor or politician ...