How Does The Book Daughter Of Venice Relate To Life Today?

What you probably know if you look back in time and compare it with today’s life you will notice that life isn’t like old times anymore. If you were to look between the Renaissances time and today you will see that there are a lot of things that are different. Like now a days we have vehicles, our own shops/ business, electronics and machines e.t.c. A big difference today and then is also how women were treated and their rights. Our world has made some big and small changes, which has made the whole world become a better place.

Life today for all women is having more freedom and being able to take care of your self and do what you like to do. Women can also work, get education and move around freely and have more or less the same rights as men have. Since the book was taking place during the Renaissance noble women were not allowed to have their own business. They were the people who had to look after home, help their husband with his business. Their lives were very simple, because they only had to rely on the men. Rich girls in the other hand were forbidden to go outside the house alone, so they could not play like poor kids and boys. They could not even go crabbing or meet other kids. “ I don’t know the name of that canal. I’ve never been down it. And there it is, opening to my eyes, then disappearing behind the buildings.” (Pg. 34) However the poor people were allowed to do these things; like choose who to marry, go outside, but they had disadvantages too, for example they had to work super hard because the whole city relied on the work they did. Another thing that was a rule was that normally one noble girl was allowed to marry, when one of their brothers were going to marry and get kids one of the sisters had to take care of his kids. The rest of the girls had to go to convent. . It was quite strict to follow this rules it was almost like freedom wasn’t an option for noble girls. “Girls go into the convents voluntarily, for the good of the family. Voluntarily? I stare. Who would volunteer for such a life? The convent has it’s advantages. What advantages? I demand. Women are protected there. Protected? Mother, they’re trapped. They have no freedom.” (Pg. 56)

There are so many different countries and cultures. Today most people respect each individual human for who they are and what their culture is, and the good thing with people today is that no matter what skin color, culture or believes a person has, most people get treated equally. People take note of that you have other rules in your culture and that you are not like that specific person or like everyone else. You are you, and you have as much rights as everyone else even if you are from Burma, India, Iran, Holland and America e.t.c. At the Renaissance time it wasn’t like that people didn’t really respect your culture or clothes you wore or even how you looked and spoke as much as today. In Venice the Catholics started to take control over other people in Venice like the Jews. They started to tell them where they could live and what to do. “Don’t you know about the decree back in 1516? All the Jews of Venice were ordered to move to the Ghetto. So the buildings have to be built tall enough, with enough floors, to hold us all. How sad that they had to leave their ancestral homes.” (Pg. 89)

Today the world has become a better place to live on. People are more equal. Men and women have more of the same rights now than before. More people have access to work and education, which has made us learn so many more new things and develop ideas. The world has also become more tolerant and different religions and culture can live side by side. However we still have to continue to work on these issues. There are still inequalities between men and women and there re still conflicts between religions that need to be solved.