Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2023.

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主要作者: Tabassum, Sazerin
其他作者: Chowdhury, Rukhsana Rahim
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spelling 10361-237052024-08-01T21:02:00Z Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Tabassum, Sazerin Chowdhury, Rukhsana Rahim Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Women in literature 20th century Anita Brookner Virginia Woolf Womanism in literature Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway Feminism and literature--History--20th century Brookner, Anita, 1928-2016. Hotel du Lac This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2023. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-34). The late 19th and early 20th centuries in western society saw a fascinating change in the field of arts. Poets and authors shifted the attention to the newly emerging industrial world. This work will be an in-depth study of the effect of the choices made by the protagonists Clarissa Dalloway and Edith Hope in the novels Mrs. Dalloway and Hotel du Lac respectively. These two characters might seem to be similar with similar backgrounds, are close in age, and also belong to similar classes in society. However, the choices they had made in the past caught up with them. Both these women consider the circumstances of their condition in society and try to understand what could have happened if they had made different choices. The stream-of-consciousness narrative helps portray the isolation and despair. This study will take guidance from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, in the discussion regarding women facing the pressures of social expectations and having to behave in a specific manner. The two novels portray the struggles the protagonists face to create a place for themselves in their domestic and social spheres and ‘be a woman.’ This study is divided into four chapters, which will explain how the two authors portray similar concepts in completely different manners. Sazerin Tabassum M. in English 2024-08-01T04:15:32Z 2024-08-01T04:15:32Z ©2023 2023-01 Thesis ID 21363004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/23705 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 41 pages application/pdf Brac University
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topic Women in literature
20th century
Anita Brookner
Virginia Woolf
Womanism in literature
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway
Feminism and literature--History--20th century
Brookner, Anita, 1928-2016. Hotel du Lac
spellingShingle Women in literature
20th century
Anita Brookner
Virginia Woolf
Womanism in literature
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway
Feminism and literature--History--20th century
Brookner, Anita, 1928-2016. Hotel du Lac
Tabassum, Sazerin
Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
description This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English, 2023.
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Tabassum, Sazerin
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title Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
title_short Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
title_full Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
title_fullStr Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
title_full_unstemmed Portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through Edith and Clarissa in Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
title_sort portrayal of the 20th century woman as seen through edith and clarissa in anita brookner’s hotel du lac and virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway
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