Research Paper on:
Women Servants' Treatment in England During the 19th Century

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British serving class women found themselves under the control of societal dictates and prejudicial pecking order established solely by a patriarchal society. The psychoanalytic perspective of teaching women to  depend upon everyone else but themselves speaks to the fact that they did not possess the necessary and intrinsic qualities to maintain their own singular existence. History has demonstrated  that if it were not for the presence of the British man, the woman would hold no individual value; instead, she was to remain in association with male control in  order to have any semblance of significance. Messages like these that permeated throughout the minds of young and impressionable British girls served to form their thoughts and perceptions for  the future; with such lessons demonstrating how difficult life can be without appropriate patriarchal influence, young girls were spoon fed inaccurate and highly damaging information with regard to their own  self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. Within the realm of life exists inherent elements to ones  existence; paramount to that existence is the concept of natural rights. Philosophers have long postulated what, exactly, these rights consist of within the massive scope of mortality, with some  contending that natural rights are those that are without social infiltration, while others attest to the fact that natural rights are doled out only by social status. "Natural rights  are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes which violate natural rights, though they may have the color of  law, are not law but impostors" (Wheeler, 1996, p. S12). For nineteenth century British serving class women experiencing a changing role within their respective communities, the industrial revolution finally