George Eliot'ın Middlemarch ve Thomas Hardy'nin yuvaya dönüş ve Tess romanlarında 19. yüzyıl kadınının yeri

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2011

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Çiçek Sünbül

Danışman: NURSEL İÇÖZ

Özet:

This thesis proposes to demonstrate the representation of women in the 19th-century fiction through an analysis of the characters in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. The study starts with an outline of the intellectual and industrial transformations shaping women’s position in the 19th century in addition to the already existing prejudices about men’s and women’s roles in the society. The decision of marriage and its consequences are placed earlier in these novels, which helps to lay bare the women’s predicaments and the authors’ treatment of the female characters better. Therefore, because of marriage’s centrality to the novels as a theme, the analysis focuses on the female subordination with its educational, vocational and social extensions, the women’s expectations from marriage, their disappointments, and their differing responses respectively. Finally, the analogous and different aspects of the attitudes of the two writers are discussed as regards their portrayal of the characters and the endings they create for the women in their novels.