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VOL. 6, ISSUE 2 (2020)
Gender discrimination in virginia woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
Authors
Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa
Abstract
This paper examines Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf, a novel from feminist perspective. It analyses how the novelist has developed innovative literary techniques to reveal woman’s experience and to provide an alternative to male dominated view of reality. The novel explores such feminist issues as the necessity or even desirability of marriage for woman and the theme of isolation. The pattern of this novel is woven with extreme delicacy, and the various elements from Mrs. Dalloway’s past brought into the present through a variety of persuasive devices. The prose itself is carefully cadenced and at times almost poetic, though never rhetorical. The highly individual sense of significance which provides the basis for the plot pattern is conveyed through style and imagery, through the suggestiveness and cunning of the language. The novel emphasizes a new identity for women. It begins departing them from their determined biological sex role to a role representing who they are as an individual person. The new identity allows women the power of thinking and standing up for their rightful place in society. By using female resistance spirit, Woolf starts to tear down the stereotypical view that all women must subject themselves to the supremacy of men.
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Pages:41-44
How to cite this article:
Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa "Gender discrimination in virginia woolf's<em> Mrs. Dalloway</em>". International Journal of English Research, Vol 6, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 41-44
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