『ルース』と『緋文字』の比較から探る「女性の言語」の存在(人文・社会科学編)

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In the present wave of feminist activity, women have debated the presence of the "woman's language", searching for a literary language that would fit the female experience. Obviously, feminists do not consider language a luxury, but an essential part of the struggle for liberation. This idea enables us to raise important questions about gendered representation of writing. This paper deals with Ruth and The Scarlet Letter, the novels concerned with a problem-that of the unmarried mother in mid-nineteenth century society. Both novels are sensitive to the messages that words convey, in order to change the images which the fallen woman offered to the public. Hawthorne uses symbolic language to show the false and destructive illusions of the human mind. On the other hand, Gaskell inherits the idea that language is used by the powerful to oppress and silence their subordinates. Two writers try to liberate a woman from feeling a victim or a dependent. Nothing about words or their arrangement is innately gendered, for two writers challenge to male-dominated language by altering or subverting male discourse. However, Ruth takes more strongly the view that a woman is identified in terms of the men she relates to. In short, a man is defined in the serious world by what he does, a woman by her sexuality, that is, in terms of one particular aspect of her relationship to men. Consequently, Gaskell shows Ruth's exclusion from language-her silence. In this point, Hawthorne and Gaskell are different. This essay points out that the presence of the "woman's language" can be seen from this difference.
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『ルース』と『緋文字』の比較から探る「女性の言語」の存在(人文・社会科学編)

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