A Study of Discrimination and Domination in Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Abstract

This dissertation is a discussion about how the people, who are socially and economically inferior, are guided by the ideology of superior class people. There is the gap between superior and inferior class people. The inferior class people are victimized by the ideological perspective of the superior class people. They live under the umbrella of ideology created by the superior class people. They can’t escape from the ideological perspective boundary of superior class people. The ideology of superior class people create resistance on the way of inferior class people, therefore, their life becomes wretched. Persuasion shows how the inferior class people sustain their painful life reluctantly.