Male Dominance and Female Resistance in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (2016) and Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017)
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi –Ouzou
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The general purpose of this present work is to examine the domestic abuse from which women suffer in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us (2016) and Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife (2017). Our major interest in this dissertation is to depict the similarities that exist between the two novels. It also sheds light on the types of abuse that the main female characters suffer from, their reaction to it, and the reasons of the occurrence of violence in the household. For a better investigation, we have relied on Lenore E.A. Walker’s The Battered Woman Syndrome (1984). This dissertation has been divided into two major chapters. In the first chapter we have explored the three phases of the cycle of domestic violence which are “tension building”, “acute battering” and “loving contrition” as presented by Walker. We have also focused on the major reasons behind abuse. The second chapter has been devoted to dive into women’s reaction to violence. This study has revealed that domestic violence passes through three phases. It has also shown that men’s learned behavior and alcohol are the major reason behind domestic violence. Besides, it has revealed that women suffer from helplessness which prevents them from escaping the violent relationship which they finally manage to overcome and break the cycle of violence through support from family and relatives.
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63p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
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breaking the cycle of violence, cycle of violence, domestic, violence, helplessness, learned behavior
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Literature and Civilization