Her tactical discursive performance effectively unsettles her ostensible performance of tender wifely conventions.
She is motivated, in other words, not simply by wifely devotion but also by a more impersonal and categorical imperative.
The opera ends with a choral tribute to wifely devotion.
Interestingly, this was revealed by the gender of witnesses, men used male witnesses to testify to wifely adultery, women suing for cruelty were supported mostly by other women.
Her husband was entitled to demand it from the owner of the factory or workshop if his wife did not hand it over to him with proper wifely obedience.
The income of the husband, being very much below, he returns his own income, and the wife—out of wifely affection—declines to give him any information with regard to her income.
She then decided to leave her family, which contradicted what was seen as her wifely duty.
Still, the women try to prepare her for her wifely duties.
