“Subversion of Gender Roles in Victorian Gothic Literature: A Feminist Reading of Bram Stoker's ,Dracula and Charlotte Brontë's ,Jane Eyre”
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol64.Iss1.4597کلمات کلیدی:
Victorian Gothic, gender roles, feminism, Dracula, Jane Eyre, subversionچکیده
Through a feminist perspective, this paper analyses the subversion of gender roles in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) and Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (CB-JE) (1847). By examining the characters, narrative structures, and social and cultural contexts in both Victorian Gothic texts, this study shows how these texts destabilise patriarchal norms and paint a different picture of certain anomalies in patriarchal patriarchy. Jane Eyre critiques gender oppression through Jane's independence and Bertha Mason's iconic defiance, while Dracula destabilises Victorian norms through Mina Harker's intellectual agency and female vampires who embody domineering and overbearing femininity with violence. This paper uses textual analysis and feminist theory to argue that one of the novel, Jane Eyre, reinforces hegemonic gender role while the second one, Dracula, undermine it. Recommendations call for intersectional research and further study of Gothic adaptations.
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