scholarly journals The Overshadowing Presence of Toxic Masculinity and a Call for Reducing Sexism in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Women's Oppression ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Healthy Relationship

The nexus among toxic masculinity, sexism, and patriarchy; and women’s oppression as an upshot of these have been potential issues stirring the interest of the researchers for centuries. The researches done on Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns are not exceptional than those works. As the novel blatantly exposes the plight of womenfolk amid an excessive masculine setting, Hosseini’s covert signal towards the male characters’ poignant situation due to their toxic masculinity has been an unaddressed issue. This article aims at studying the detrimental consequences of toxic masculinity in the characters’ personal, familial, and social life showing the utter helplessness of male characters who have to comply with the stereotyped notion of gender roles of real men. Because of the male characters’ vague notion of masculinity, the relationship with their partners becomes toxic; Jalil does not get forgiveness from his daughter Mariam when he asks for and Rasheed’s life ends horribly. Demonstrating the poignant aftermaths of toxicity, the researcher calls for reducing sexism for establishing a healthy relationship where partners will have love, respect, and trust between or among themselves.

scholarly journals MORAL VALUE IN NOVEL TASAWUF LOVE KARYA M. HILMI AS'AD

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulandari Ramadania
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
Social Messages ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method

ABSTRACTThe moral value conveyed by the author to the reader through works of fiction especially novels is useful and useful to the reader. This study aims to describe the moral values associated with social messages and expose the moral values associated with the religious message contained in the novel Tasawuf Cinta by M. Hilmi As'ad. The method used in this research is analytic descriptive method. The results of this study indicate the moral values associated with social messages are: (1) social in social life; (2) relations between human beings of religion, and (3) association between the opposite sex. The moral values associated with the religious message are: (1) the relationship of man and God; (2) human nature and conscience; (3) the personal freedom that man possesses; And (4) the dignity and dignity of each individual.Keywords: moral value, novel                                                

scholarly journals Atwood's Men Meet the Screen

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Joe Montenegro Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Television Version ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
And Gender

Margaret Atwood’s famous work, The Handmaid’s Tale, offers innovative and intriguing perspectives on gender and gender roles, as they are dramatized and problematized in the context of a dystopian society that in many ways is a projection of our own. Particularly interesting in the novel are the roles on men, represented by the principal male characters: the Commander, Nick, and Luke. As Atwood employs these personae to describe at least three different manifestations of masculinity —all with their own conflicts and possibilities—, the first season of the television version of the novel, created by Bruce Miller and resealed in 2017, explores, expands, and exploits various visions of manhood that help understand not only the protagonist’s but also the reader’s/viewer’s world. This paper is an attempt to establish a dialogue of sorts between Atwood’s and Miller’s viewpoints on masculinity through their portrayals of these three characters and their interactions with their protagonist and their context.

The Powerful and Disturbing Touch

Philotheos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-339
Author(s):  
Đurđina Šijaković Maidanik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Stage I ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This paper proposes a reading of two episodes of Hecuba's supplication in Euripides' drama Hecuba. I am hoping to show that the female protagonist Hecuba, when begging for mercy, uses the ritual potential of the supplication act, while the two male characters secularize the primarily ritual act, with the result of escaping from it. The dramatized rite of supplication can serve for examination of normative engagements in the sphere of religious issues and gender roles, and the relationship between speech and gesture on stage. I am examining some aspects of the supplication rite and analysing chosen sections of the dramatic text, with the goal of mapping them within the coordinates of ritual/secularized, gestures/words, female/male.

scholarly journals Oscar Wilde’s Multiple Appeals Revealed in the Male Characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Ye-Ping Lian ◽  
Jing-Dong Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Dorian Gray ◽  
The Relationship

Concerning Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the previous studies have mainly been conducted on the writer’s aesthetic thoughts and moral senses reflected in this novel, while the relationship between his literary creation and his psychological appeals needs to be further explored, for possibly these appeals are essentially related to his multiple personalities and complex psychology. Focusing on the three male characters, this paper attempts to examine Wilde’s psychological appeals for the recognition of his aestheticism and the acceptance of his non-aesthetic appeals, and how they are revealed in the novel. According to A. H. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, human needs include the physiological need, the safety need, the belongingness and love need, the esteem need, and the need for self-actualization and so on. Through close text analysis, this study has had the following findings: (1) As an artist, Wilde’s pursuit of art is the expression of his appeal for self-actualization. The interpretation of aestheticism by Basil and Henry denotes this need of Wilde; (2) As an aristocrat, Wilde also wants to be respected by the society, which is reflected in Dorian, while as an ordinary man his love need and physiological need are reflected in Basil’s feelings for Dorian and Henry’s admiration for hedonism. Hopefully, this study might help readers better understand Wilde and his works, and achieve a deeper understanding of the artist’s complicated personality and psychology, the complexity and difficulty of the artistic creation, and various forms of artistic expressions.

scholarly journals The Play of Gender Roles in Sheeba Shah’s Facing My Phantoms

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Asmita Bista
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Maoist Movement ◽  
Human Attributes

Setting the novel in different time-periods (Rana regime, Panchayat System and Maoist movement), Sheeba Shah’s Facing my Phantoms has depicted the condition of Nepali males and is considered a historical document. This article aims to examine the factors that constrain the male characters to traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. It also studies the consequences faced by the characters while performing and defying gender stereotypes. To address this objective, Butler’s and Connell’s ideas have been used as they have claimed that masculinity and femininity like any other human attributes are fluid; in fact, it is constantly reconstructed in response to socio-political changes under the pressure of social norms. According to Butler, gender is something that is not a corporeal thing, but it is reproducing, changing, and moving. The significance of this article is to find insights in understanding the condition of males in the Nepali society. It concludes that the male characters of Shah’s novel oscillate between traditional and anti-traditional gender roles. Under the social pressure, they perform the roles of an assertive and authoritative father, aggressive and ruthless lover/husband, and rational and responsible son. Likewise, when they get influenced by socio-political changes, they fail to stick to stereotypical gender roles. Consequently, they appear in the emotional, docile, dependent, confused, and unassertive roles.

جماليـات القريـة في الروايـة الفلسطينيـة قريــة (بيـت حانـون) أنموذجـاً

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
The People ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Shed Light

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى مقاربة صورة قرية بيت حانون كما جسّدها عدد من كُتّاب الرواية الفلسطينية؛ للوقوف على هذه الصورة، وإبراز مكانتها ودورها، إذ عمد الروائيون الفلسطينيون إلى تسليط الضوء على جوانب الحياة المتعددة في هذه القرية الفلسطينية. وتناولت هذه الدراسة حول أربعة محاور هي: عتبة العنوان، والفضاء الجغرافي لبيت حانون، وصور من نضال أبناء القرية ومقاومته، وملامح من الحياة الاجتماعية في القرية. وسعت أيضاً للكشف عن وسائل التشكيل الفني التي وظفها الكُتّاب في بناء رواياتهم من: رصد للأحداث، ورسم للشخصيات الروائية، وتناول لعناصر اللغة والسرد مثل: توظيف تيار الوعي، وتداعي الأفكار، والاسترجاع، والحوار الدرامي بنوعيه: الداخلي والخارجي، وتوظيف للتراث، وقد أسهمت تلك التقانات مجتمعة في نقل تجارب الروائيين. ومن أهم النتائج التي توصلت إليها الدراسة الحالية أن الأعمال الروائية التي تناولت بيت حانون قد صورتها بكل أبعادها وفئاتها، وكشفت عن علاقة أهل القرية بالأرض، وعشقهم لها، وتعلقهم بها، ووُفق الروائيون في تحديد الإطار الزماني والمكاني لأحداث رواياتهم؛ الأمر الذي أسهم في بناء الأحداث ورسم الشخصيات، وصياغة السرد والحوار، وزاوج الروائيون في رواياتهم بين أسلوب السرد المباشر القائم على التصوير والتحليل وأسلوب تيار الوعي الذي يعبر عن المضمون من خلال وعي الشخصية، وامتازت اللغة الروائية بالفصاحة والبساطة والوضوح، بعيداً عن الإغراق في استعمال اللهجة الشعبية المحلية، مع الميل –أحياناً- إلى توظيف اللغة الشعرية الموحية؛ مما أسهم في تطوير الأحداث، وبعث الحيوية في المواقف المتميزة، بشكل حقق معه تصوراً متكاملاً لظواهر الواقع المعيشي. Abstract This study aimed to investigate the image of Beith Hanoun village as embodied by various Palestinian novelists in order to understand this image and to shed light on its significance and role. This is because various Palestinians novelists intended to highlight multiple aspects of life in this Palestinian village. This study revolve around four key domains: the title, the geographical space of Beith Hanoun , various models of the struggle of the people of the village and its resistance , and the features of social life in the village. Also, the study sought to disclose the means of artistic formation employed by the writers to build their stories such as : monitoring the events , persona of the novel , the elements of language and narrative such as: employment of consciousness , the association of ideas , and recall , and the two types of dramatic dialogue, both internal and external, and the use of heritage. These techniques, in congregation, contributed to convey the experiences of novelists as well as to embody their humanistic visions. The study concluded that the various novels that tackled Beith Hanon depicted all its dimensions and categories. They also revealed the relationship between the people of Beith Hanon and their land; their love and affection to it. The novelists were successful in determining the settings of their novels in ways which contributed to the building of events, persona, narrative, and dialogue. The novelists combined direct narrative which is based on portraying and analysis with the awareness stream which expresses the content through conscious persona. The language of the novels was characterized with plainness, simplicity, and clarity, and it bypassed extensive use of local and humble language with an occasional tendency to employ indicative poetic language in ways that developed events and revived distinctive situations to depict a holistic picture of living reality.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL ‘THE RAINBOW'

AKTUELNOSTI ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Đurović
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The Relationship

The Rainbow, 1915 is a saga about the three generations of Brangwen family. Each generation on its own way explore their moral and physical relationships shown through specific ways of acting on each other and maturing of female and male characters fitted in specific social frames.

scholarly journals Ramifications of Racial Identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 430-438
Author(s):  
Dr.S. Mahadevan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tragic Mulatto ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
African American Identity ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to bring out the racial identity in Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills. It presents the struggle for African-American identity; the idea of feminist consciousness is brought forward. There is a fight against racism. Women are found to be dominated, humiliated, and harassed by the male characters. The theme of tragic mulatto is introduced in the novel, reinforcing the importance of racial roots. Linden Hills portrays a sarcastic examination of the uncertain struggle for African-American identity in the nineteenth century and twentieth century. The relationship between personal identity and cultural history is the main theme in this novel. Naylor focuses on a community of heartless people who have become detached from their cultural past in the action of ascending the corporate ladder towards a promising monetary future. In this quest of upward mobility, the occupants of Linden Hills have even turned away from the sense of their racial identity.

scholarly journals Exploration of Masculinity in Sanjeev Upreti's Hansa

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Indira Acharya Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Traditional Masculinity ◽  
Male Gender Roles ◽  
Social Constructivist Approach

 Can a man be rigid, strong and decisive all the time? How do people know about their normative gender roles? Who formulates the rules about love, sex, marriage, and men and women relations? These are some of the issues raised in Sanjeev Upreti's latest novel Hansa [Duck] (2019). The novel artistically and sensitively traces the limits of patriarchal gender roles and suggests that masculinity is contextual and undergoes a continuous process of change. The major male characters of the novel, despite their inclination towards heterosexuality, and despite their effort to perform traditional masculinity, fail. Though they have embraced hegemonic masculinity as an ideal form of masculinity, and try to practice it, they are weak and vulnerable. This article explores why these characters fail to perform their gender roles as par their expectations. To analyze male gender roles and masculinity in the novel, theories of masculinity are drawn basically from Raewyn Connell and Judith Butler‟s social constructivist approach to gender studies. Analyzing the novel through the lens of masculinity helps the reader understand the constraints of hegemonic masculinity and provides insight to alternative ways of understanding male gender roles and masculinity. The article has found that the male characters of the novel suffer because they stick to the traditional masculinity and fail to adapt to their changed roles.

Mummified Fragments: Characters and Themes in Hariharan’s Novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-835
Author(s):  
R. Ramakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Characters

Hariharan’s versatility as an author with a mission to subvert the entire tradition can be recognized in every work of fiction she has created. For this purpose in her second novel, The Ghosts of Vasu Master she experiments with a male protagonist and a host of other male characters. Vasu is the protagonist of the novel. He is a retired school teacher from P.G. Boys’ school, Ellipettai. He leads a lonely widower’s life with two of his sons employed and settled away from home. This article scrutinizes the life of an idower is all aspects.

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