A new study comparing an Iranian author and Emily Brontë:
A Comparative Analysis of the Feminine Image in the Novels of Wuthering Heights and Suvashun Based on Schwalter Theory
Sayfollah Mollye Pashaye, Kheironnesa Mohammadpour
Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Research in Contemporary World Literature, Accepted for publication
DOI: 10.22059/JOR.2022.334055.2242
The current study examined two prominent novels of Iranian and British literature, i.e. Suvashun by [Simini] Daneshvar and Wuthering Heights by Brontë, through the cultural model of Elaine Showalter’s Anglo-American Literary gynocriticism, in order to investigate social and cultural thematic statement. The model is concerned with women as writers, the producer of gynotextual meaning, genres, and literary tradition. The findings show that despite the spatial, temporal, and cultural distance, there are common themes prominent in both novels: lovemaking, marriage and emotional conflict, education and striving for feminine identity, social role, and status. The female protagonists in both novels are created to meet society's expectations. Both novelists’ voices of protest against male domination and the discrimination against women were found cautious and conservative: executing the hero, In the novels of both authors, there are anxieties due to their individual position in dealing with people and being considered as the second sex. What is the common anxiety of women in the world.
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