Feminine Style in Jane Austin’s Works
Keywords:
Feminism, Jane Austen, masculine, gender relations, equality, protagonistAbstract
This work will analyze literary works of Jane Austin, concerning with the feminism, women problems and issues, relationships between men and women portrayed in these works. The article outlines how Austen used her literary works to represent the society in which she lived and how that society placed a sense of duty on women in terms of family, education and marriage. Along with the representation of that duty, the research work concentrates on the approach of the writer in using her protagonists in an effort to question those standards and provide for her readers examples of women whom they could relate to and learn from as well.
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