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Defiance can be viewed as a state of grace in a world that still, for the main, objects to non-conformity, the ability to be other than what a portion of society demands, craves as if hooked on an ideal that does not make sense, that is beyond any reason in today’s society. It is almost as we have clung on to the insanity that pervades the dogmatic Victorian era, a timespan etched into the annals of history, but which was truly a patriarchy hiding in plain sight of imagined petticoats and stern sour-faced mourning.