Why I chose this Lens

While I read the book “Beloved” by Toni Morrison I will  be focusing on critical lenses. The critical lenses that I will be focusing is feminist/gender lens. Even though this lens say feminist it does not mean that the main focus of this lens is how women are portrayed  in society but it can be though, this  main focus of this lens is on how men and women  are portrayed in society both of the genders. The reason I choose this lens for this book Beloved is because I want to focus on how women and men were acting with them self and other people in the 1800’s. What I only know about this book is that the setting is taken place after the civil war happen so there was a lot of racism and social classes. I believed that all humans in this world should be treating each other with equality and that there should not be differences just because that person is from a different color or gender. I am hoping to understand the author on how both of genders were  portrayed  at that time so that I can make a connection between nowadays and the times of the 1800’s.