Theme
Lessing's work of course comprises an attack against the nobility and its powers. Lessing depicts aristocrats as having unfair powers in society and as ruining the happiness of the emerging middle class. With that play Lessing directed criticism to the tyranny of the reigning class.
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“... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.”
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