Contradiction Within The Rover: A Gestic Feminist Study
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2012-10
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Faculty of Art English
Abstract
This research analyzes gender and sexuality subverts patriarchal ideology. It
would be to engage dialectically with the patriarchal Victorian Society. It has been
chosen Gestic theory as a theoretical tool to examine how women have been
victimized in the English society, it means a performance, that makes visible
contradictory, interactions of the text, theatre apparatus and contemporary social
struggles. It focuses on the dialects or contrast created by patriarchal society.
Protagonist Hellena is forced to become a nun, but she is more interested in men than
God. However, sister Florinda is interested love with the English Colenel Belvile.
While their father wants, Hellena shall go to convent, but she wants experience of
love and marriage before going to convent. Florinda shall marry a rich ancient Don
Vinetio. The researcher mirrors the conflict between a patriarchal ordering of the
world and the needs and desires of an individual woman, in an inversion of
conventional women opposing the patriarchal system because they have been
victimized in the structure of patriarchal society.
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sexuality subverts patriarchal ideology, English society, Gestic Feminism, The Rover