In Freudberg's title, main character Martin Muntor made it a goal early in life to excel, not in the psychotic driven way of a man who... [Read more...] (goodereader.com)
Many contemporary readers see here the arbitrary institution of patriarchy: a sexist text, written by males to justify the domineering ways of man toward woman, shamelessly invokes the divine will to support the male prerogative, held to be legitimate because it was womanly weakness that cost man immortal bliss. (firstthings.com)