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92 Gerhart Hauptmann
what I feel very often. ... It s as clear as daylight
that she is right. We are really and truly a despised and
ill-used sex. Only think that there is still a law so
she told me yesterday which allows the husband to
inflict a moderate amount of corporal punishment on his
wife.
And yet, corporal punishment is not half as
terrible as the punishment society inflicts on the
Kittys by rearing them as dependent and useless
beings, as hot-house flowers, ornaments for a fine
house, but of no substance to the husband and cer
tainly of less to her children.
And Mother Fockerat, without any viciousness,
instills poison into the innocent soul of Kitty and
embitters the life of her loved son. Ignorantly,
Mother Fockerat meddles, interferes, and tram
ples upon the most sacred feelings, the innocent
joys of true comradeship.
And all the time John and Anna are quite
unaware of the pain and tragedy they are the
cause of: they are far removed from the com
monplace, petty world about them. They walk
and discuss, read and argue about the wonders of
life, the needs of humanity, the beauty of the
ideal. They have both been famished so long:
John for spiritual communion, Anna for warmth
of home that she had known so little before, and
which in her simplicity she has accepted at the
hand of Mother Fockerat and Kitty, oblivious of
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