Resistance to Capitalist and Patriarchal Ideologies in Charlotte Bronte'sTheProfessor
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2012
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Central Department of English
Abstract
This thesisentitled "Resistance to Capitalist and Patriarchal Ideologies in
Charlotte Bronte'sThe Professor" is an analysis of the novelfrom the view point of
Marxist Feminism. This work basically focuses on the domination of capitalists and
patriarchs uponproletariatand females and resistance of proletariatandfemales to
capitalists and patriarchal norms and values. The central characters William
Crimsworth and Frances Henry are working as laborers under capitalist and
patriarchalmode of society.Wherever they go they cannot be free from the claws of
bourgeois and patriarchs that make their life deplorable and poverty. The whole
situation ofhuman degradation has been portrayed as an inevitable consequence of
private accumulation of capital.Edward, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Zoraide Reuter
belong to the upper class. They present their cruel behavior towards the workers in
their factory, private schools and so on. William becomes the victim of their cruel
behavior. So, he moves from one job to another job for the hope of getting a
respectable social economic status. Frances also becomes the victim of her master as
well asher husband. She does not remain silent but rather resists to capitalist and
patriarchal ideologies.
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Patriarchal Ideologies, Social Reality