Woman Between Oppression and Rebellion in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724), and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856).
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2022
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation is a comparison study the of women’s situation under oppression and their rebellion against patriarchal society through the works of Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress (1724) and Gustave Flaubert’s Madam Bovary (1856). This comparative study has been achieved by applying Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist theory developed in her book The SecondSex (1949). This theory allows us to study these two literary works in relation to oppression and rebellion. The two authors have portrayed the oppression practiced on women; they have depicted how women are dominated by men. They have described also how these women rebel and seek for independence. This research has been divided into two chapters. The first chapter is entitled women’s oppression, where we provided the reader with useful information about the idea of women's oppression and how it is shown through the different female characters of the two works. Then, in the second chapter we have studied the same female characters and the way they rebel against the oppression of men. Both novels depict women’s struggle to be independent in a society that aspires to leave them stranded. Finally, we come to conclude that women as a subject of oppression are always seeking for rebellion to reach equality with men, but they are always seen as the weak and inferior sex compared to men.
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37p. ; (+CD-Rom)
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oppression, feminism, patriarchy, resistance, women, rebellion
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Comparative Literature