Complex sentence: A number of critics have treated the novel as a feminist text because it presents Sarah as a more liberated and independently willed woman as compared to the other model female characters such as Ernesta and her aunt.
Split into simpler sentences: A number of critics have treated the novel as a feminist text. The novel, has it's own self proclaimed feminist approach to women: it presents Sarah as a more liberated and independently willed woman as compared to the other model female characters such as Ernesta and her aunt.