The Women Status in Patriarch Culture of Societies: A view of Nathanial Hawthorn in The Birth-Mark
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Gender differences, Mill’s Feminist Stylistics, the birthmark., Gender differences, Mill’s Feminist Stylistics, The birthmarkAbstract
Language stores changes in its system occur at the level of word, phrase, and discourse. It is a complete system and serves to transfer connotative and denotative meanings. There are different factors like social, cultural, and political those influence language. There is a link between power and language because it depends on who controls language. Furthermore, in modern times it shows the color of gender. There is prejudice in words and phrases. This study investigates this fact in the ‘The Birthmark by Hawthorn’ qualitatively under the theoretical framework of Mills (1995) Feminist Stylistics. The study aims to find out the semantic negative connotation against women and explores the diction used by the author at the word and phrase level. This is significant because it decodes the literary language. Similarly, the results based on the analysis show the words used for Aylmer by Hawthorn show masculinity, power, strength, skill, and experience like skillful, experience, scientist, spiritual, and my power. This shows men are logical and empirical and they have the brain to think and invent new things but the words and phrases used for women highlight her fragility, helplessness, and objectivity. The words used for women by the male author are beautiful, tears, love, deep, etc. these just show women are emotional and they are the object of beauty. They have no power. In a nutshell, there is sexism in the language system. Hence these are stored in the semantic bank of lexicons in the linguistic system in dormant form and get activated when coming into use. This reflects discrimination against women. The future researcher may explore this story from the angle of feminist discourse.
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