Lady Windermere's Resistance in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan
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This dissertation examines the anguish and shocks experienced by the
protagonist, Lady Windermere in Oscar Wilde’s play Lady Windermere’s Fan. It
reflects not only the suppression of this Lady in her traditional society butalso the
emancipation of her in male-governed society. Lady Windermere, who realizes the
humiliation to be a female and finds physical and mental torture upon her life, fails to
find equal status with her husband. She is fed up with her conventional husband, and
the systems set in the traditional Victorian society are not acceptable to her as an
intellectual woman. The anguish and pain experienced by the protagonist awakens the
senses of her precarious existence. However, this Lady is able to find her own self by
resisting the patterns set by traditional Victorian society. This is the sublime-
perception of her oneself in her society. There is a journey made by the protagonist in
her society which is plotted by Oscar Wilde very cleverly. She starts her life from
subjugation and ends with emancipation. This emancipation also reflects the
emancipation of the entire world of women.