2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels
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| spelling | 15973 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15973 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Languages & Communication English application/pdf 1.5 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) Copyright©PWB2025 274 OPPRESSION AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE OF THE PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY IN GEORGE ORWELL’S NOVELS (PHD_2022).pdf 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels Rania Khelifa Chelihi 2022-05-19 Patriarchy in literature George Orwell and gender Patriarchy in Orwell’s novels Gender-based violence in literature George Orwell has been widely glorified for his decency, based on his political view of democratic socialism. However, this vision can be confirmed, only if his preoccupation with masculinity power, traditional gender roles, and consistently stigmatizing depiction of women is decisively ignored. Orwell is accused of being an anti-feminist author, and the majority of the existing literature on his works focus on violence against women. Moreover, it entirely ignores violence against men, although it is one of the key features of patriarchy. Thus, the first objective of this study is to understand the oppression of women in patriarchal societies in the light of hegemonic patriarchal discourse of typical female stereotypes and women inferiority in the selected novels: Burmese Days (1934), Animal Farm (1949), and Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). The second objective is to examine how women are seen as sexual objects. The third objective is to explore patriarchy as a system in which men are oppressed and show how these men are considered as women if they depart from traditional stereotypes. Textual analysis is used to analyze the selected novels: Burmese Days (1934), Animal Farm (1949), and Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). To understand women’s oppression as a foundation to understand men's oppression within the patriarchal system, a combination of de Beauvoir's feminist theory, Walby theorizing patriarchy, and hooks' conception of "feminism is for everybody" is used. This analysis is conducted through examining the main female and male characters' persecution under the patriarchal system. The aforementioned theories are also used to investigate the claim that men are considered feminine under certain circumstances. To accomplish these aims, the concepts of traditional female stereotypes, traditional male stereotypes and gender-based violence were extracted, studied, analysed and classified according to the concepts of patriarchy. The findings revealed that the relationships in the novel’s patriarchal societies are unequal, whereby male characters are oppressors and female characters are oppressed. The selected novels depicted all females as unintelligent and uninteresting. This is a stereotypic ideology which holds extremely damaging effects on women in both literature and society. Moreover, all the female characters in the selected novels were exploited by men and were regarded as second-class citizens, regardless of their colour, race and social status. To the contrary, women are not only the sole victims of the patriarchal system. Historically, men's domination over women was extended to other men, installing a hierarchy among men that is more or less the same as the hierarchy between men and women. Hence, it was revealed that women's oppression is directly correlated to men's oppression. In other words, the existence of women's oppression in the society leads to men's oppression. The research concludes that men are responsible for establishing their own oppression. Although Orwell mistreats and degrades women and gives inconsequential roles to them, women are not the only victims of patriarchy. The research has successfully addressed men’s concern, as an oppressed subject. This study paved the way for other researchers in the area of feminism, gender studies and patriarchy to address men issues within patriarchal societies. Also, it contributed to the previous studies by analyzing twentieth-century literature from an original perspective of patriarchy so that it will widen the horizon of academic research. Dissertations, Academic Thesis |
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| summary | George Orwell has been widely glorified for his decency, based on his political view of democratic socialism. However, this vision can be confirmed, only if his preoccupation with masculinity power, traditional gender roles, and consistently stigmatizing depiction of women is decisively ignored. Orwell is accused of being an anti-feminist author, and the majority of the existing literature on his works focus on violence against women. Moreover, it entirely ignores violence against men, although it is one of the key features of patriarchy. Thus, the first objective of this study is to understand the oppression of women in patriarchal societies in the light of hegemonic patriarchal discourse of typical female stereotypes and women inferiority in the selected novels: Burmese Days (1934), Animal Farm (1949), and Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). The second objective is to examine how women are seen as sexual objects. The third objective is to explore patriarchy as a system in which men are oppressed and show how these men are considered as women if they depart from traditional stereotypes. Textual analysis is used to analyze the selected novels: Burmese Days (1934), Animal Farm (1949), and Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1984). To understand women’s oppression as a foundation to understand men's oppression within the patriarchal system, a combination of de Beauvoir's feminist theory, Walby theorizing patriarchy, and hooks' conception of "feminism is for everybody" is used. This analysis is conducted through examining the main female and male characters' persecution under the patriarchal system. The aforementioned theories are also used to investigate the claim that men are considered feminine under certain circumstances. To accomplish these aims, the concepts of traditional female stereotypes, traditional male stereotypes and gender-based violence were extracted, studied, analysed and classified according to the concepts of patriarchy. The findings revealed that the relationships in the novel’s patriarchal societies are unequal, whereby male characters are oppressors and female characters are oppressed. The selected novels depicted all females as unintelligent and uninteresting. This is a stereotypic ideology which holds extremely damaging effects on women in both literature and society. Moreover, all the female characters in the selected novels were exploited by men and were regarded as second-class citizens, regardless of their colour, race and social status. To the contrary, women are not only the sole victims of the patriarchal system. Historically, men's domination over women was extended to other men, installing a hierarchy among men that is more or less the same as the hierarchy between men and women. Hence, it was revealed that women's oppression is directly correlated to men's oppression. In other words, the existence of women's oppression in the society leads to men's oppression. The research concludes that men are responsible for establishing their own oppression. Although Orwell mistreats and degrades women and gives inconsequential roles to them, women are not the only victims of patriarchy. The research has successfully addressed men’s concern, as an oppressed subject. This study paved the way for other researchers in the area of feminism, gender studies and patriarchy to address men issues within patriarchal societies. Also, it contributed to the previous studies by analyzing twentieth-century literature from an original perspective of patriarchy so that it will widen the horizon of academic research. |
| title | 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels |
| title_full | 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels |
| title_fullStr | 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels |
| title_short | 2022_Oppression and Gender-Based Violence of the Patriarchal Society in George Orwell’s Novels |
| title_sort | 2022_oppression and gender-based violence of the patriarchal society in george orwell’s novels |