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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

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The proceedings of a recent conference including a Brontë-related paper:
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 586 
Atlantis Press
Editors:  C. Kahl and  N. Fatima
ISBN: 978-94-6239-440-7

Wang Xinyue

From the perspective of Feminism and Gothic Studies, this paper discusses two novels by famous female writers, Brontë family’s Wuthering Heights (1847) and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938), focus on the two novels in which Catherine and Rebecca two female characters. The traditional Gothic literature presents the female characters in the form of polarization, covering them with the veil of stereotype, which is a great obstacle to discover and convey the true thoughts and feelings of the female characters. However, Catherine used her distinct personality and complex experience to blur the lines drawn by traditional patriarchal culture. Rebecca’s tragedy is not due to her Bohemian, but due to the whole Patriarchal Society’s heavy restrictions and constraints under the female alienation. The two female characters’deviance is a kind of criticism and Innuendo to the reality, revealing the women’s sadness of being bound by marriage and the helplessness of being unable to break away from the control of Patriarchy. They may all be “crazy” women in the secular sense, but their “crazy” is a powerful spiritual strength when they break the shackles placed on women by Patriarchy, which is the best proof of their resistance and struggle.

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