Subversion of Gender Roles in Carter’sThe Passion of New Eve

Abstract

This paper analyzes Angela Carter’sThePassion of New Eve.It examines the subversive concepts of gender role concerning sex, death, body and gender where the single body experiences the different genders, feelings, and emotions. Providing stereotypical characteristics to character, Carter depicts the state of contemporary society, which has picked fall image, addressing the lost part of one’s double sexual construction and performance. Projecting gender as a place of political debate, Carter attemptsto visualize gender relation that has been imagined and practised through power constructed by society. To analyze the concept of the subversive notion of gender role, this paper engages the idea of Judith Butler’s “Gender Trouble”, standing on the ground of Simon de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex”. This paper contend sissues of subversive gender roles and human relations with the relation of own alien body and self. The perceive meanings of these themes vary according to the context, and setting of this fiction which has shown the subversive gender role, projecting through at the gender transformation. The central theme of this novel is the change concerning gender anxiety and identity crisis. The narrative comes out with the cultural and social myth, which limits and controls modern-day society by subverting and examining the social formation of gender roles. In this way, this paper opens new avenues examining a particular theme with special attention to contextual relations. Key Words: gender, sex, gender subversion, gender transform.