Resistance to Capitalist and Patriarchal Ideologies in Charlotte Bronte'sTheProfessor

Abstract

This thesisentitled "Resistance to Capitalist and Patriarchal Ideologies in Charlotte Bronte'sThe Professor" is an analysis of the novelfrom the view point of Marxist Feminism. This work basically focuses on the domination of capitalists and patriarchs uponproletariatand females and resistance of proletariatandfemales to capitalists and patriarchal norms and values. The central characters William Crimsworth and Frances Henry are working as laborers under capitalist and patriarchalmode of society.Wherever they go they cannot be free from the claws of bourgeois and patriarchs that make their life deplorable and poverty. The whole situation ofhuman degradation has been portrayed as an inevitable consequence of private accumulation of capital.Edward, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Zoraide Reuter belong to the upper class. They present their cruel behavior towards the workers in their factory, private schools and so on. William becomes the victim of their cruel behavior. So, he moves from one job to another job for the hope of getting a respectable social economic status. Frances also becomes the victim of her master as well asher husband. She does not remain silent but rather resists to capitalist and patriarchal ideologies.