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    Gender Role in Victorian Literature :

    Comparative Study between Dickens’


    Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane
    Eyre

    ENG 416

    Seminar Paper (Presentation) and Viva Voce

    Rezwana Haque
    2018236003
    (2019-2020)
     INTRODUCTION
     Exploring the ways in which both of these influential works depict gender
    roles and identify commonalities and contrasts. As a whole , it delves into the
    contrasting ways male and female roles are constructed and challenged,
    offering insight into the broader social expectations of the Victorian era.

     Gendered Power Dynamics and Relationships


     Exploring Conformity to Societal expectations through
    Gender Role Theory & Gender Trouble Theory
     A comparative Analysis
     Gendered Power Dynamics and
    Relationships
    “The rigid enforcement of gender norms perpetuate inequality and
    restricts the agency of individuals, shaping their identities and
    experiences within the confines of patriarchal structures”(Walkowitz
    127).

    The division between genders presents a nuanced exploration of


    themes like independence, ambition, and equality in both personal
    and social contexts.
    Consequences of
    societal
    repression

    Concept of Resilience on
    separate spheres personal
    autonomy
     Gender Role Theory & Gender
    Trouble Theory
    Gender Role Theory
    According to Gilbert Herdt, “Gender roles arise from correspondent inference, meaning that general
    labor division extends to gender roles”(Herdt 133). Herdt suggests that gender roles are not biologically
    determined but are instead socially constructed through cultural practices and expectations.

    Gender Trouble Theory

    According to Butler's notion, “Gender is performative, it's not inherent but rather constructed through
    repeated actions and behaviors” (Butler 213).
     A Comparative Analysis

    While both novels engage with themes of identity, class, and


    gender, they do so through distinct narrative lenses.

    Great Expectations explores the intricacies of ambition and social status,


    as its protagonist Pip navigates societal expectations. Conversely, Jane
    Eyre revolves about the protagonist's path towards self-awareness and
    independence.

    Great Expectations interrogates the impact of societal expectations on


    individual growth and fulfillment while Jane's assertion of her
    independence and refusal to conform to societal expectations exemplify
    the novel's exploration of personal autonomy and moral integrity
    Asserting independence and agency in
    a male-dominated world.

    Defying the Intersectionality


    passive female
    archetype
    Conclusion of gender and
    other societal
    prevalent in constructs such
    Victorian as religion and
    literature. morality.

    Bronte writes, “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human


    Works Cited
    Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006.
    Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of
    Identity. Routledge, 1990.
    Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2003.
    Davidoff, Leonore, and Catherine Hall. Family Fortunes: Men and
    Women of the English Middle Class. New York Vintage Books, 1780-
    1850. Revised ed., Routledge, 2002.
    Herdt, Gilbert. Human Sexuality. Routledge, 2001.
    Hughes, Kathryn. The Victorian Governess. Hambledon Continuum,
    1993.

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