How The Sexist Society In Mansfield Park And Jane Austen's Persuasion?

It proves its genuine precocity to allow the reader to know about the heroine’s ordeals, feelings of frustration as well as about her victimization within the oppressive patriarchal society. It displays women’s struggles to conceal the politics of gender roles of their epoch and to protest against the Law of the Father. In her discussion of Gothic tropes, Anne Williams reveals that Female Gothic falls under the rubric of a marginalised genre while identifying the critical reception of the gothic in the pre-romantic era with the categorization of women as peripherized subjects, admitting that this literary form has been “congenial” to them and pleasantly suited to their lower social position (Fleenor The Female Gothic 8).

ane Austen’s historical background was the most relevant and helpful aspect added within her literary works since she provided typical features of her epoch (the Regency Period) in them through characters, events, social customs, and so on, as it is seen in Pride and Prejudice. Due to historical factors, Austen’s point of view in her works was ‘biased’, that is to say, she had her own opinion on different matters, and as it is known, she was a proud feminist who expressed her beliefs when she wrote. The Regency Period was a time of social instability in England: from the ‘madness’ of King George III, to the passivity and excessive life of his son, who was to be King George IV. Obviously, the judicial power did not favour every single person

The study is designed to understand the different social issues related to different characters in the novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. It focuses on the Victorian and Modern marriages and highlights how the female characters are different from one another. Similarly, there are a lot of religious doubt, degrading women, and an unclear vision in the novel by one of the characters. However, there are deaths in the novel too. Similarly, it will focus on the two central women in the story.

Although Eliot contested feminism in her time, claiming to be “a daughter of the fathers” (Mitchell 14), her novels nonetheless strive to give a realistic depiction of social outsiders and small town persecution .Rather than creating “silly novels by lady novelists [who] rarely introduce us into any other than very lofty and fashionable society” (Eliot 1856), Eliot challenges the representations of dark women in traditional English society, much like a late Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea, detailing their hardships and unpleasant endings. Therefore, in analysing what Philip terms as Maggie’s “long suicide” (Eliot 429), I aim to uncover the years of societal abuse dark women endured in European society,

Hall says that “Key to all feminist methodologies is the belief that patriarchal oppression of women through history has been profound and multifaceted” (Hall 202). Two of the most diverse novels Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" (1868) and Robert Louis Stephenson's "Treasure Island" (1881), developed in this period. Both novels are written in different areas with different characters, however the writers have highlighted the great connection between the American and British literary tradition related to the 19th century. (Elaine, n.d.)

Abstract This research paper aims at analyzing the heroine of Jane Austen`s novel Emma and to show the position of women in her society and how this reflects the suffering of women in a global context both in her time and now. The research paper argues that the author has used various tools including parody and irony to reveal the position of women in the society at her time. The novel Emma was written by Jane Austen in the tear 1816.

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre the main character is Jane Eyre. She tries to explore the various depths at which women may act in a society, such as the English society, and finds her own boundaries in Victorian England. The notions of feminism are often being followed by the subjects of class

Beginning with Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre is one of the most iconic works in Victorian literature that highlights the struggle of women in a patriarchal society – something which can be considered ahead of Brontë’s time. Jane’s character is the embodiment of the enlightened female consciousness, and represents women’s desires and ambitions for emancipation. With the novel being written in a time when the patriarchy served as the dominant power, the themes that were portrayed through the text were concerned with women’s social position, society’s regard for physical beauty, and gender inequality. Brontë also expressed women’s desires for education, economic independence, liberation, and equality.

Awakening is a novel written by Kate Chopin in 1899. As in many of Chopin’s writing, this novel concerns itself with morality and identity. The restrictions and expectations imposed on the protagonist, Edna Pontellier in the Awakening are based on gender and societal norms in the nineteenth century. In the Victorian Era, society deemed that the role of the woman was purely to be a wife and mother, but Edna had other ambitions, which included sexual freedom.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the writer, Harriet Jacobs, expresses her purposes behind composing her life account. Like all other slaves, her life story was story was horrific and shocking enough that she would have rather kept it private, however she felt that making it open may help the abolitionist development and will probably make others aware that what all of them went through. An introduction by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child puts forth a comparative defense for the book and she thus keeps the story of Jacobs’ in front of the world. In the book, Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl, the author as by the pen name of Linda Brent tells her story of twenty years spent in slavery with her master Dr. Flint, and her

Pride and prejudice, weathering Heights and the scarlet letter each show in different ways the evolving democratic values of the 19th century. Each novel highlights a different subject one just as important as the last. All representing in their own unique way what it is to be an American. Pride and prejudice reflects the equality of women and the rising of the women 's movement, weathering Heights symbolizes social class distinction and the scarlet letter was used to express the core beliefs of liberty.

She told her story to Pheoby and at the end she says, “Still and all, she’s he own woman. She oughta know by now whut she she wants tuh do. ”(Hurston p 156)

Firstly, it is not always easy to separate private from public meanings in Victorian texts, even when distinctions seem clear on the surface. Furthermore on this concept, Harman also claims that the public realm for women is associated not just with political action, but with self-manifestation and self-display. She later concludes this thought by writing that Gaskell’s solution for balancing the public and private spheres is an unstable and ambiguous one. I will agree with this, but I will disagree that this happens because of the women in the novel. The conclusion of Gaskell’s work in my opinion is more about the ambiguous circumstances surrounding the differences between the working class and leisure class rather than the expectations of women in a public