Contradiction Within The Rover: A Gestic Feminist Study

Abstract

This research analyzes gender and sexuality subverts patriarchal ideology. It would be to engage dialectically with the patriarchal Victorian Society. It has been chosen Gestic theory as a theoretical tool to examine how women have been victimized in the English society, it means a performance, that makes visible contradictory, interactions of the text, theatre apparatus and contemporary social struggles. It focuses on the dialects or contrast created by patriarchal society. Protagonist Hellena is forced to become a nun, but she is more interested in men than God. However, sister Florinda is interested love with the English Colenel Belvile. While their father wants, Hellena shall go to convent, but she wants experience of love and marriage before going to convent. Florinda shall marry a rich ancient Don Vinetio. The researcher mirrors the conflict between a patriarchal ordering of the world and the needs and desires of an individual woman, in an inversion of conventional women opposing the patriarchal system because they have been victimized in the structure of patriarchal society.