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Despite Tatiana Blackthorn being shown to have become a vile and horrible person, I really appreciated her as a character. 

Because this was a girl shaped in a very strongly patriarchal environment. She was raised to never be her own person. She was raised to always be the supporting character to another person. Someone’s daughter, wife or mother. Never her own woman. This left her vulnerable, dependent on the men around her. And as that patriarchal system fell apart around her, her father and husband being slaughtered and her son withered away, she was nothing. She was no longer a daughter, wife or mother. She was left on her own, with no idea of how to be on her own. She no longer had anything to define her by. And in her case, that turned her revengeful and bloodthirsty to destroy those who reduced her to the nothingness she was. 

Tatiana Blackthorn was a victim of a patriarchal society, was both molded and broken by the system that raised her, and if that is not an analogy to the female struggles during the Victorian era, I don’t know what would be.