Female Pawns of Society

So maybe its the feminist in me that sees the female characters as manipulated pawns of men in society... but its pretty obvious. All of the women are given negative titles because of social expectations in society. Winnifred is automatically a whore because of her relations with Clarington who is all too eager to rid himself of responsibility for her. Clarington pays Frank Thorney to marry her... Thorney, assuming the child is his, leaps at an opportunity to marry a woman he loves and make some money while he's at it, so essentially, Winnifred is being sold like a cow on a auction block. Then there's poor Susan... I honestly felt the worst for her in this play. Her marriage was arranged to Frank Thorney who eventually murdered her. It amazed me that before he murdered her, Frank insulted her and called her a whore... AND SHE AGREED WITH HIM!! Now, maybe its just me, but if a man was about to take my life, I would not allow him to take my dignity as well. Susan was just a poor victim caught in the crossfire of the plotting and scheming of men. Then there's the witch. I felt bad for the poor old woman. Society placed a black mark next to her name because of her title of widow, her elderly status, and sharp tongue. Because she went against the grain and was impoverished, she was deemed a witch. Society told her she was a witch, and so she accepted this sentence. She was eventually executed for her "crime" and became yet another female victim of society's manipulation.