Texts across time have portrayed women in terms of a dichotomy between "good" and "bad", but to what extent are the composers of the texts you have studied ambivalent towards their female characters?

Composers throughout the ages have often used dichotomy as a tool to depict the rift between "good" and "bad" women, but their exact intentions are often unclear. Examples of this ambiguity may be found in "Vanity Fair", a BBC television mini-series set in nineteenth century England, Fay Weldon's eighties novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and Chocolat, a single mother's integration into a rural French community, by Joanne Harris. No true saints or villains exist in the three texts; their female characters are neither wholly good nor evil, but an ambiguous mixture of both, which is…