During Middle Ages, the society was dominated by the church and the state. In the film, “The name of the Rose,” by Jean-Jacques Annaud, the church used to blame women due to the belief that women were chosen by the devil to harm men. For instances, in the movie, Brother Williams states, "women are more bitter than death and they can control man's souls." This shows how, women were treated like nothing. Many of them have to work harder than men through cooking, washing clothes and continued farming to help their husbands. Women who were not married ended up in prostitution as a way to support themselves financially due to the absence of a husband; women who were widowed didn’t inherent from their husband, only the children conceived during the marriage had the right to inherited.
