The common themes that Romantic period, the victorian age, and the modern era is a theme about revolution and democracy. In the romantic period, characters have a romance like story but the revolt still circles in the storyline, it is same with the victorian age and modern era where the fight for democracy is being the center of the story.
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It means that even it everyone is doing something wrong, it is not right. It is referring to peer pressure, don't do something just because everyone else it doing it.
The sentence that shows that the speech is addressed to primarily female audience would be: We do not propose to petition the legislature to make our husbands just, generous, and courteous, to seat every man at the head of a cradle, and to clothe every woman in male attire.
I put a highlight on the phrase our husbands. The sentence basically created in order to put a sense of shared experience that every female audience could relate. This type of technique commonly used in order to make the audience feel a sense of unity from the shared experience.