The ministering and flying status of angel: Analysis of the image of Mrs.Klima in The Farewell Waltz
- DOI
- 10.2991/icesame-17.2017.22How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Male Gaze, Female Consciousness, The Farewell Waltz
- Abstract
The text utilized feminism gaze theory in analysising Mrs. Klima, whose image reflected sleeping and awaking of female's self-consciousness under the oppression of patriarchy, vividly demonstrated Milan Kundera's ambivalent attitude toward women.The Farewell Waltz is one of the major works of Milan Kundera, it has won Italian Award for Best Foreign Literary. The novel took Soviet invasion of Prague as political background, through telling complicated stories of eight characters, philosophically disscussed complicated problems of life. Among these characters, Mrs.Klima is definitely an impressive one. Through the image of Kamila, Milan Kundera deeply described the sleeping and awaking process of female's self-consciousness under the oppression of patriarchy.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Zhuo Liu PY - 2017/06 DA - 2017/06 TI - The ministering and flying status of angel: Analysis of the image of Mrs.Klima in The Farewell Waltz BT - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Education, Sports, Arts and Management Engineering (ICESAME 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 95 EP - 98 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icesame-17.2017.22 DO - 10.2991/icesame-17.2017.22 ID - Liu2017/06 ER -