An Analysis of Female Images in Dubliners from the Perspective of the Other
Abstract
James Joyce, one of the most infl uential and innovative writers of the 20th century, is the author of the short story collection Dubliners that expresses the theme of Irish mental paralysis and shows more female characters than any other works of James Joyce. However, due to British colonization and the Catholic Church, Joyce inevitably presents Irish women as the Other. According to the theory of the Other put forward by existentialist feminist Simone de Beauvoir, which holds that women’s inferiority is caused not by biological differences but by culture, the paper analyzes the reasons why female is considered as the Other and presents female images in Dubliners.
Keywords
Dubliners; The Other; Female images
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i15.8775
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