ホーソーンの男性主人公と父権制社会
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The male protagonists in Hawthorne's works-such as Giovanni, Owen, Reuben, Goodman Brown, Aylmer, Coverdale, Kenyon and so on-do not generally send deep roots into society and accomplish the role expected of men. The striking contrasts of physique, mentality and the sense of value between the protagonists and the antagonists indicate frailty, inferiority, and a lack of virility of the former. Their father-surrogates' great influences on them suggest that they have been, and will be, unable to rid themselves of paternal authority and domination. The relationships between the protagonists and the women betray the fact that they are frail, immature, and cannot fill the gender role. The protagonists, however, take sides with men who dominate and persecute women under the ideology of patriarchy. Such duality of the protagonists-their inferior phases and socially assigned superiority-reveals that, though men's superiority over women in a social stratum is open to criticism, the position and the role of men under the ideology of patriarchy is a hardship for men.
- 東海学園大学の論文
- 2003-03-31