Politics of Male Representation and Female Resistance in Burmese Days
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Abstract
This thesis deals with female resistance against male and patriarchal
domination in Orwell's Burmese Days.The novel also presentsdevasting picture of
both domestic corruption and British Colonial rule, where imperial forces dominate
the native people as interesting but inferior. But the focus of this thesis is on the
conflict between male and female characters and love-hate relations between them. I
have used politics of male representation and female resistance as critical tool to
analyze the text. Information has been collected through various resources including
published books, essays and article as well as website reviews.
This fiction displays many instances of dominating mentality of characters
who take females as weak, inferior, child-like and submissive characters. In the
fiction male characters U Po Kyin, Mr. Flory and Mr. Verrall are shown as blind
followers of patriarchal ideology who tend to dominate and confine women in one
way or the other. However they are counterattacked by female characters eventually.
So the love-hate relationship between males and females is well projected. The study
concludes that even as women are initially shown as completely servile and
subordinated towards the male, they ultimately resist and get victory over male
domination.