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FEMALE CHARACTERS IN LITERATURE
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
Main characters
Hester Prynne
Condemned for life to live as an outcast
Simbol of the sinner
New reputation for her charity
A for Able
Roger Chillingworth
Reverend Dimmesdale
Pearl
Themes
17th century Puritan New England
The moral and psychological effects of sin
Adultery
Red A sewn on the chest
Isolation
Society excludes people
She gains strength from this isolation
Women and Femininity
Despite being the weaker sex they are extremely strong
Protect the man she loves
Scarlet letter
Hester identity
Shame
Jane Eyre
C. Brontë, 1847
Main characters
Jane Eyre
strong
passionate
honest
isolated
The question of the role of women
ANTI-VICTORIAN HEROINE
respectable
domestic
submissive
pure
pious
Jane Eyre challenges the notion of appropriate female behaviour
GOVERNESS
Edward Rochester
St. Johns Rivers
Helen Burns
Mrs. Reed
Ulysses
James Joyce, 1920
Main characters
Hugh "Blazes" Boylan
Molly Bloom
impulsive
Penelope
unfaithful
self-centered
professional singer
Molly's monologue
18th chapter
1) Leopold's previous relationships
2) Comparison between her husband Leopold and her lover Boylan
3) Memory of her childhood in Gibraltar
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soliloquy
stream of consciousness technique
Leopold Bloom
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, 1925
Protagonist:
Clarissa Dalloway
London society lady of 51
wife of the politician Richard Dalloway
organizes a party
reflects on her past, her present and her relationships
Heroine of the novel
Apparently she seems superficial
Fine fashion
Parties
High society
Actually she is very intelligent and tries to be the perfect human being
she's concerned about the passage of time
aging
death
she doubts of her marriage
Richard Dalloway
she misses lost loves
Peter Walsh and Sally Seaton
feminist
fights for gender equality
