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I was watching "Lark Rise to Candleford" this evening and this was the last conversation between two characters, a man and a woman.
Man: "A man´s role is to conquer the world!"
Woman: "And what is a woman´s role?"
Man: "To love them for it." (woman falls off her bike!)
How much difference has a century made?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark_Rise_to_Candleford
taken from theabove link:
Because Thompson wrote her account some forty years after the events she describes she was able to identify the period as a pivotal point in rural history: the time when the quiet, close-knit and peaceful rural culture, governed by the seasons, began a transformation, through agricultural mechanisation, better communications and urban expansion, into the homogenised society of today.[1] The transformation is not explicitly described. It appears as allegory, for example in Laura’s first visit to Candleford without her parents: the journey from her tiny village to the sophisticated town representing the temporal changes that would affect her whole community.[1] Although the works are autobiographical, Thompson distances herself from her childhood persona by telling the tale in the third person; she appears in the book as “Laura”. This device allows Thompson to comment on the action, using the voice of “Laura” as the child she was and as the adult narrator, without imposing herself into the work.[1]
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