You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating.
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In A.S. Byatt's "The Children's Book," the complexities of betrayal and the struggle for identity are explored. The speaker acknowledges that being betrayed in a conventional way is more tolerable than experiencing the humiliation of being kept uninformed. This lack of transparency can lead to feelings of helplessness and dependency, which are profoundly degrading. Moreover, being reduced solely to the role of a wife or dependent figure is depicted as an...
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