Projection of Feminist Elements in the Fictional World of Jane Austen and George Eliot: A Note
Dr. S. Chelliah
Professor , Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages
Madurai Kamaraj University,
Madurai – 21. (TN-IND)
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An Abstract
This article is nothing but a critical evaluation for renowned writers like Jane Austen and George Eliot and the Feminist elements highlighted in their works with their feminine and defiant tone of expression, they left their indelible imprint on the annals of English fiction. In the light of feminist critical theory, it can be the proved that both the writers explored the unexplored sense of agony and complex solitude of women character.
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Most feminists believe that the pernicious effect of socialization makes women suppress the greater part of their human potential feminism, as a philosophy of life, seeks to discover and change the more subtle and deep seated causes of women’s oppression. The feminist literary criticism has developed as a component of the women’s movement and its impact has brought about a revolution in literary studies. This new approach has profoundly altered several critical assumptions. It offers a new perspective on literature and emphasizes the need for a search of new paradigms. Elaine Showalter draws attention to this critical revolution in the following …show more content…
Her heroines are not self-conscious feminists, yet they are all exemplary of the first claim of Enlightenment feminism: that women share the same moral nature as men, ought to share the same moral status and exercise the same responsibility for their own conduct. Jane Austen’s adherence to the central convictions of Enlightment feminism becomes more marked and more forceful and the scope of her comedy is enlarged, not by taking in a wider social spectrum, but by widening and deepening the range of allusive irony. Indeed, Jane Austen’s novels can be read as the writer’s search for a national and amiable woman, Indeed, in Sense and Sensibility her endeavour is to give sense to sensibility in the character-study of Marianne Dashwood. In Elizabeth Bennet, she concentrates upon a