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Deconstructing The Stereotypical Images Of Victorian Women In Anne Bronte’S The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Nouh Ibrahim Saleh Alguzo

Journal of the Faculty of Arts (JFA)

This paper aims at deconstructing the stereotypical images about Victorian women as submissive, silent and unintellectual. The common belief about women in the Victorian age is that women were likely to comply with the Victorian patriarchal norms that expected women to stay at home and take care of their husbands and children. However, Anne Bronte in her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the norms of her society by introducing her female characters as autonomous and rebellious. Bronte presents the heroine Helen as a powerful woman who frees herself of the restrictions of her patriarchal society both financially and …