I really like how this story deals with the different roles women were dealt with in that period of time. Women could only be daughters, wives or mothers. In the very brief period of time in their lives of being "just wives" they could be women. So when a daughter was born, she was a competition. Mothers would no longer be the star of the house but the daughters in order to secure a good deal when marrying them. Women owned nothing. They had no freedom other than the ones permitted by the man currently "in charge" of them. And so Ariadne was betrayed for not being secured to a man, whereas Isabella secured men with status as to have greater freedom. The stepmonster could only hold power as long as the cardinal uphold her as wife and Ippolito regarded her as mother. She lost that now she dies. Much like Ariadne losing Cesare's backing despite everything she did for him and being killed by Isabella to take over her place. Kind of poetic if you think about it. I also really like the details in the almost historically accurate dresses. So far is one of the few stories where there's attention to accuracy in costumes of the country and time where this story is supposed to take place
I really like how this story deals with the different roles women were dealt with in that period of time. Women could only be daughters, wives or mothers. In the very brief period of time in their lives of being "just wives" they could be women. So when a daughter was born, she was a competition. Mothers would no longer be the star of the house but the daughters in order to secure a good deal when marrying them. Women owned nothing. They had no freedom other than the ones permitted by the man currently "in charge" of them. And so Ariadne was betrayed for not being secured to a man, whereas Isabella secured men with status as to have greater freedom. The stepmonster could only hold power as long as the cardinal uphold her as wife and Ippolito regarded her as mother. She lost that now she dies. Much like Ariadne losing Cesare's backing despite everything she did for him and being killed by Isabella to take over her place. Kind of poetic if you think about it.
I also really like the details in the almost historically accurate dresses. So far is one of the few stories where there's attention to accuracy in costumes of the country and time where this story is supposed to take place