A new paper just accepted for publication:
Zhiying Zhang
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar argued that pen is a substitute for penis, suggesting the patriarchal control over literary production and cultural narratives. As a female novelist, Charlotte Brontë intentionally adopts a first-person narrator in most of her novels to endow her heroines with the power to narrate their own stories. Language in the narrative thus becomes not merely a medium of storytelling but a tool of resistance and self-articulation. Through this narrative strategy, Brontë offers her female protagonists a voice to articulate their inner journeys, express their suffering, and redefine male presence and the social structures surrounding them. This narrative empowerment allows her heroines to challenge the dominant ideologies of gender and power, providing a counter-discourse to the patriarchal silencing that would traditionally obscure or distort female experience.
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