Literature has changed drastically over the years.
Now, we see a lot of strong and dominant female characters such as Katniss Everdeen.
Somebody said to me a couple of days ago how they were working on a piece of writing which had a strong female character because of how female characters are often portrayed as submissive, specifically in classic literature.
Take A Scandal In Bohemia for example by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Irene Adler was possibly not your every female of that time but she still was far from being dominant over Sherlock Holmes. She still had that air of submission to a man.
Irene Adler is supposed to be as intelligent as Sherlock therefore posing a challenge for him but the way she is portrayed is still not as dominant as her potential shows.
Other novels with characters similar are Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and quite the majority of classic literature.
Elements of Literature such as this don't bother me as much as they do a lot of other people but I can see why. It can be very frustrating when a female character isn't as developed as they could be because they have to be somewhat inferior to their male counterparts.
I do think it's nice and refreshing to see strong dominant characters but that can't happen in every book because some people just aren't like that at all.
What do you think?
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