With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
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S M Mahfuzur RahmanLecturer, Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh,DhakaCrossings Volume 11 2020For millennia, women have been demonized and denigrated through the metanarrative of Eve’s collaboration with Satan in Paradise as proof of women’s inherent moral inferiority as the progenitors of the “Original Sin.” Grandstanding poets such as Milton with their grandiose epics such as Paradise Lost have perpetuated and propelled the myth of the “second sex.” Thus, one half of humanity has beencondemned and confined to their “place” indoors and reduced to the service of the “superior sex” – until the revolutionary age of the Romantics attacked all grand narratives. The two Brontë sisters, Charlotte and Emily, for instance, tried to upend the narrative of subjugation by championing the egalitarian struggle of Eve and Lucifer over the hierarchical order of Adam and God. The subversivestrategy of delegitimizing the metanarrative of the Original Sin frequents in Shirleyand haunts the gothic landscapes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, where thefemale central characters, Jane and Cathy respectively, undercut and underminetheir feminine performativity by bending the will of their male counterparts.Deconstructing the abovementioned novels, this paper aims to demonstrate howthe Brontë sisters actually attempted to unravel the metanarrative of the Fall fromwithin – to hail Eve as the genuine “hero” – and prove how the feminine intellectis at par, if not superior, to that of the masculine.
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