Resistance to Patriarchal Ideology in John Fowles’s The Collector

Abstract

This research explores the issue of women’s resistance to patriarchal norms and values in John Fowles’s The Collector. It focuses on the central character Miranda's relentless struggle from her imprisoned life to her death for establishing her free identity in patriarchal society. It is the hierarchy made between men and women by the patriarchal society that has marginalized women from enjoying the social position. For a long time, women could not develop themselves to raise voice for their rights. In the novel Miranda in order to emancipate herself questions discrimination and trying to stand on her own but sadly gets ill and dies. She has been kidnapped by `Clegg and imprisoned inside an isolated and lonely house. He tortures and abuses her cruelly in order to manipulate into submission to his proposal. She struggles with great effort to resist his moves for molesting and controlling her.