Victimization of the females in Golding's free fall

Abstract

The present study attempts to analyze the different modes of female exploitation and their suppression perpetuated economically, mentally and socially by the males from within and outside the family. Marxist Feminism has been chosen as a theoretical tool to examine how women have been exploited socio-economically, sexually and politically for ages. Marxist Feminists focus much on how woman are the victims of differences created by patriarchal socio-economic environment. The unpaid wage in domestic work, low wages in industry and their economic dependence on the males have made all female characters such as Ma, Beatrice, Taffy and Miss Pringle in the novel, Free Falllive with alienation, repression, domestic, sexual and mental violence. They are in a sense sacrificed for the desire, pleasure and satisfaction of male members such as father, Mountjoy and Watts-Watt. They can not oppose the males because they have already been trapped in the structure of capitalist patriarchal society.