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At the close of Chapter 15, Wells writes, "...these weird creatures—the females I mean—had in the earlier days of my stay an instinctive sense of their own repulsive clumsiness, and displayed, in consequence, a more than human regard for the decencies and decorum of external costume." This is supplemented by a lack of female characters throughout the story. How do you think the era in which the book takes place affects the portrayal (or lack thereof) of female characters?
Thus far, almost no female characters have been introduced. As the story was written in 1896, it can be deduced that the gender standards were much different and women's role in society was primarily...
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