Another recent B.A. thesis:
by Kwabena Bediako,
2025, Master of Arts in English, Cleveland State University, College of Arts and Sciences.
Critics have investigated English heroines and othering English heroines in British courtships plots. This investigation is of an English heroine and two non-British heroines from Jane Eyre, The Woman of Colour and Wide Sargasso Sea. Although the heroines of all the three novels navigate the British marriage markets; Jane Eyre is the heroine who attains and sustains the ideal British marriage based on love and mutual respects due to her British identity. The two non-British heroines are not able to attain and sustain an ideal British marriage based on love and mutual respect due to non- Britishness. The non-Britishness heroines' marriage to English men was based on transactional wealth transfer but not based on love. The non- English heroines' anomalies make it difficult to attain the ideal British marriage resulting in resistance from the non- English heroines. Furthermore, the investigation through Said's Orientalism shows the relationship between Britain and her colonies in nineteenth and twentieth- century novels.
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