A Feminist Approach to Explore Sarah’s ImageIn the French Lieutenant’s Woman

DOI

10.2991/isss-18.2018.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Image, Feminist, Patriarchy, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

Abstract

John Fowls is a very outstanding figure in English literature studies, his famous work the French Lieutenant gained high fame, and the heroin Sarah is the representative of feminist who attempts to overturn the Victorian decadent social system. This paper manages to explore the images of female protagonist Sarah in the French Lieutenant’s Woman with the help of feminist criticism theory. With exploring excessive social system, Patriarchal and ethical standards of Victorian age, the author gives the further exploration of Sarah’s rebellious sprit, including her independence, her lonely and free figures; and through dissecting her mysteriousness, loneliness and free characters, the author explores the main heroin Sarah’s rebellion sprit, her everlasting pursuing of selfhood, equal right and freedom, overthrown the traditional patriarchy ideology of Victorian age by her dissolute behaviors

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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