Gender Role Subversion in Charlotte Bronte's The Professor

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Gender Role Subversion in Bronte's The Professor" focuses female character, Henry Frances, who struggles hard for her identity, equality and rights as a human being in her society.The research argues women’s courage and emotional awakening of female to dismantle patriarchy construction of gender. It examines how women aredominated in the patriarchal mechanism and opposed through her action in the society. Frances Henri struggles for search of the self identity and how she gets successto make her own way into the patriarchal world is the central idea ofthis research. The research foundFrances as weak but resisted woman in each system of society thoughshe was interpreted differently by various persons. She shows hermasculine power being financially secured. Finally, William Crimsworth shows male chauvinists are defeated from theirown ego. Frances struggles hard against conventional and male dominated society and is able to discover a new world for her identity. She carves a role of her own in the traditional Victorian society. This research is based on different feminist mainly Kate Milletto emancipate the human by expressing aggressive feeling to convert into rules.

Kew words: Gender Role, Suppression, Identity, Patriarchy, Victorian Period