started to depict both the diversity of women and the diversity within each woman, rather than limiting the lives of women to one ideal. Modern literature emerges with a whole range of attitudes towards the imposition of tradition, some offering an analysis of the family structure and the caste system as the key elements of patriarchal social organization. Some works also reinterpret mythology by using new symbols and subverting the canonic versions pertaining to gender issues. In conclusion, modern
Shelley about a student of science named Victor Frankenstein , who make a monstrous but responsive being in an unconventional technical experiment. Shelley wrote it when her age was eighteen years old and the novel came when she was at the age of twenty. The first edition of her book was available in London and the second one in France. Frankenstein is basically filled with essentials of the Gothic novel and the Romantic Movement and is measured as one of the science fiction The aim of the study is
INTRODUCTION If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact
In her book especially chapter seven which is about “Feminist Manhood”, Bell indicated that many young women fear if they call themselves feminist, they will not be attracted to men anymore, but the truth that feminism does not hurt men. She proved her claim by explaining the women role in the society, and giving example in women who have jobs that
The feminist movement is the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. The issue of rights for women first became prominent during the French and American revolutions in the late 18th century. In Britain it was not until the emergence of the suffragette movement in the late 19th century that there was significant political change. A second wave of feminism arose in the 1960s, with an emphasis on unity and sisterhood; seminal figures include Betty Friedan and Germaine
Introduction The dystopian novels and movies have been rendered to more researches and analysis from the different angles by readers and spectators from its genesis. George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New world had enlightened the debates in all parts of the world. In the year 1984, many dystopian fictions, to be precise, novels have been written by different writers evaluating the current status of the democracy in the world politics and the depth of totalitarianism that shrouded
All in all, fictional works such as Kindred, Beloved and Who Fears Death are extremely important both socially and politically, as fiction in general has an educational function and the power to stimulate personal transformation and social change. The pieces illustrate “how science fiction can continuously stimulate the imagination, present nonstereotypical representations of black people, provide imagined futures and alternative realities, challenge oppression and push the boundaries of thinking
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. 57 When speaking about psychology in gothic literature, it is essential to mention Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) , the American innovative gothic writer of the nineteenth century. Poe’s contribution to the gothic genre is majestic. His internal analysis of the psychology of fear in his characters in The Fall of the House of Users (1839); The Black Cat (1843) and others narratives, opened out the gothic to the exploration of mental collapse . Poe was interested in madness, detective stories, and
The purpose of this research is to investigate the British novelist Hilary Mantel’s relation to the gothic tradition. Actually, Mantel’s novels, which are hard to categorize, ranging from historical fiction to autobiographical writing going through black comedies, can be read from a gothic perspective. Accordingly, Mantel’s writing can be seen as a contribution to the gothic aesthetic which has and continues to witness various developments from its appearance to the present time. The major novels