THE PATRIARCHAL BURDEN IN DAISY MILLER, A STUDY, AND TO ROOM NINETEEN
OSTRACISM, MADNESS AND DEATH
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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2764-4251.2025.n1.73083Keywords:
Female Empowerment, English Literature, Henry James, Doris LessingAbstract
In this qualitative approach, basic nature and exploratory objective study, we present how the gradual loss of self-esteem of naturally empowered women can be motivated by sexist intervention applied to the social roles they play in a given context, which added to the emotional charge they bring, can culminate in social ostracism, madness and suicide for those subjects portrayed here by the characters Daisy Miller, from the novella Daisy Miller, a Study, by Henry James, and Susan Rawlings, from the novella To Room Nineteen, by Doris Lessing. We base our research on theorists such as Fogel (1990), Hoxie (1946), Randall III, (1965), Quawas (2007) and Zhao (2012), among others. We conclude that if the characters in question had been treated differently by their surroundings, without the yoke of the phallocentric morality typical of patriarchy, their autolytic acts could have been avoided, since empowered as those women were, they would possibly have no other reason to commit them.
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