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WOMEN IN SOCIETY ( Beloved VS Wuthering Heights ) : - Coggle Diagram
WOMEN IN SOCIETY
( Beloved VS Wuthering Heights ) :
SUBVERSION
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B. MARRIAGE LAWS -
"a married woman in England has no legal existence: her being is absorbed by her husband"
. An english wife has no night to any property, even of her own. An english wife may not leave her husbands house ( as isabella does) and such an offense is punishable by the law. entering the state of marriage is to
"pass from freedom into the condition of a slave"
A. INHERITANCE LAWS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND - property passed down
only
down the male line unless no male heirs in which case it is
divided
among the daughters.
BELOVED
MOTHERHOOD
BELOVED
Slavery as the root cause of the scattering of black family and slave trade and other slavery practices as the primary source of damage to the black family institution
slavery limited baby sugg's ( mother of 8 to 8 fathers) self conception by shattering her family and rejecting her oppurtunity to being a true wife and loving mother
sethe murders her child unwilling to relinguish her daughter to the physical and emotional trauma of slavery.
sugg's and sethes experience as a woman slaves is passed onto their decendants
motherhood pushes sethe further into psychological instability. while her children are her motivation, they are also the crux that leads her to her decline into dissociation.she worries about her children more than she does about herself, forcing her to veiw herself as worthless.
the lack of a bond with her own mother perverts her understandong of maternal affection.
A pattern of female aggresion as a version of love accompanies the cycle of violence
. paraxodical combinations of violence and love are expemplified in sethes expressions of passionate devotion.
in sethes only distincet interaction with her mother, she is slapped, to protect her. sethe adopts a similar combination of violence and love
re pictures black womanhood through sethes story. appeals to the universality of maternal instincts
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identity
psychoanalytical
FEMINIST THEORY
branches of feminist criticism
French Feminists
- language is phallocentric and depends on binary logic of the masculine VS the feminine wherin the feminine attributes are associated with the negative binary and the masculine vice versa. women as sexual beings
masciuline desire dominates speech and posits woman as an idealized fantasy filfullment for the incurable emotional
American feminists
- exposing the implicit ideolodies of patriarchy and the
"systematic masculine dominance inscribed in our literary tradition"
. does feminism weaken or empower itself by emphasizing seperateness?
British feminists
- emphasis on historical detail. importance of political context in the representation of women in literary tradition
Intersectionality
- idea that socieconomic position in addition to gender affect an individuals representation. while all women are female,
black women are
"caught between two identities, tangled, confused. Sexism and Racism melt together, coming at them all at once."
. forced to place women in an
isolated territory from both white and man
slavery as the nucleus of racism and sexism, entagled by social classes that should be faced by black women is like a linkage chain from generation to generation.
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When catherine goes against the submissive domestic role she is attacked as a figure of conflict who threatens to destabalise the patriarchal order.
The domestic setting traps and destroys the women within it and the patriarchal figures bring them down for fear of losing their dominance
She causes conflict, but does so because of how she attempts to challenge the male rule of the two houses.
She is never tied to one patriarch, and her refusal to have an identity cemented by a man is what creates so much conflict and gains her so much criticism.
central male dependence of HC on catherine Sr that transcends life itself. she has power over the men but she is punished for it
female figures are branded devious traitors and their attempts to be treated well are portrayed as acts of conflict, highlighting the bias against female figures.
nelley plays the role of the submissive woman who accepts her place in patriarchy and thrives in it whilst catherine sr is the woman who fights the established order, eventually being destroyed for this rebellion.
these two gothic figures struggle for dominance due to the position they are placed in by the partriarch
nellys influcene rests on her acceptance of the patriarchy. she reinforces patriarchal ideals of male dominance by portraying catherine as the source of both the families miseries
nellys character could possibly be inspired by
Tabitha Akoyd
the servant of the bronte household. most probably emilys source of the stories of the locality.
she appears to have been a "
twin sister to nelley dean
"
BELOVED