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Critical Analysis Of Maugham's Treatment Of Women

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Some critics think his misogyny is projected by his real life incidents such as his troubled marriage and homosexuality. As in many stories he has projected the theme of troubled marriage but it cannot be counted as a sufficient reason to call him a misogynist. He lived a messy relationship with Syrie but his conflict with her was because of his homosexuality. He tried his best to live a normal life like heterosexual man, to love women but he simply could not. As for his homosexuality, his consciousness about this subject never allowed him to write it in his fictional works. His conscious attitude makes his homosexuality least responsible for such accusation. To set free the writer from this accusation the keen analysis of his treatment to female character is given. Maugham has portrayed women as mere victim rather than tyrant. He has not told who is victim and who is victimizer rather shown through plots. The analysis systematically works from gender discrimination to women as victimizer.
INTERSECTION OF GENDER BINARY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Women in Maugham’s work usually analyzed as culprit of every sin and crime while setting men free from the blame. Maugham treatment of women does not consist on the simple concept of women being a persecutor. The hypothesis of the research revolves around the fact that there is various oppressive institutions work to victimize women in the Maugham’s world of fiction. The dilemma is that women in stories bullied emotionally and physically

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