Je Dou, School of International Studies, Shandong Youth University of Political Science
Journal of Innovation and Social Science Research, Volume 9, Issue 4, p. 129 (2022)
Abstract: Underpinned by certain Female Gothic elements, Emily Brontë, the maverick female writer in the 19th century, unmasked in her novel Wuthering Heights the increasingly intense alienation in spaces of intimacy as a result of the male-dominated social structure and its ruthless constraints on women, which deprived the fair sex of sense of safety and comfort in the domestic spheres and even provoked their desire for escaping. Her portrait of the three Gothic female characters and the crafting of a Female Gothic ending indicated possible ways to wrestle against the alienation together with the gender-biased hierarchy and led to a reexamination of marriage.
Wang Xin, School of Foreign Studies Nanjing University
Asia-Pacific Journal of
Humanities and Social Sciences
In Charlotte Brontë's novel Villette the protagonist Lucy Snowe is characteristic of double personalities explicitly exhibited in three pairs-sexual desire against self-repression imagination against reason and split self of Ginevra Fanshawe against the other-self Paulina Marry. The paper probes into how Brontë uses the contradictory metaphor of flame and frost to represent Lucys double personalities and analyzes how she eventually integrates dualities. Her experience manifests Brontë's double bind as a female writer. A feminist perspective is adopted to discuss the writer's inner conflicts between the will to write and female conformity based on her portrayal of Lucy's double personalities and realistic experiences. It suggests that Charlotte Brontë strives to seek a moderate and compromising integration between social and private identities male and female lines as a possible solution to deal with the dilemma of "double bind" .
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