KOCAELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI ANABİLİM DALI İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BİLİM DALI AN ANALYSIS OF JANE AUSTEN’SEMMA, GEORGE ELIOT’STHE MILL ON THE FLOSS AND VIRGINIA WOOLF’STO THE LIGHTHOUSE IN THE LIGHT OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’S A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN YÜKSEK LİSANS TEZİ ENİSE KOCAKAYA KOCAELİ, 2019
T.C. KOCAELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATIANABİLİM DALI İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BİLİM DALI AN ANALYSIS OF JANE AUSTEN’SEMMA, GEORGE ELIOT’STHE MILL ON THE FLOSS AND VIRGINIA WOOLF’STO THE LIGHTHOUSE IN THE LIGHT OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’S A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN YÜKSEK LİSANS TEZİ ENİSE KOCAKAYA DANIŞMAN: Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BERNA KÖSEOĞLU KOCAELİ, 2019
TABLE OF CONTENTS ÖZET........................................................................................................................................................i ABSTRACT.............................................................................................................................................ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS....................................................................................................................iv INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................1 CHAPTER I 1. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT...........................................................................................................6 1.1. THE BIOGRAPHY OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.................................................................6 1.2. LITERARY WORKS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT............................................................10 1.3.A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.......................................................................15 1.3.1. Women’s Problems of Education............................................................................................15 1.3.2. Women’s Ignorance of Their Own Potential and Strength.....................................................17 1.3.3. Women: Symbol of Sexual Objects and Beauty.....................................................................19 1.3.4. Marriage: A Restriction in Women’s Lives............................................................................21 1.3.5. Roles of Women as Wives and Mothers.................................................................................21 1.3.6. Polygamy.................................................................................................................................23 1.3.7. Prostitution: Seduced and Abused Women.............................................................................24 1.3.8. Women’s Confinement Due to Their Secondary Roles in Marriage.......................................25 1.3.9. The Importance of Education Based on Reason......................................................................27 1.3.10.The Importance of Intellectuality for Women......................................................................29 1.3.11. The Importance of Communication Between Parents and Children.....................................30 CHAPTER II 2. AN ANALYSIS OFEMMABY JANE AUSTEN IN THE LIGHT OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’SA VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.....................................32 2.1. THE BIOGRAPHY OF JANE AUSTEN......................................................................................32 2.2. JANE AUSTEN’SEMMA.............................................................................................................36 2.2.1. Jane Austen’s Struggle as a Female Writer.............................................................................36 2.2.2. The Protagonist, Emma and Her Position As a Woman in Her Society..................................38 2.2.2.1. The Impact of Emma’s Financial Independence and Social Class Upon Her Freedom.......39 2.2.2.2. Emma As a Matchmaker......................................................................................................41 2.2.2.3. Emma’s Perspective Towards Marriage...............................................................................42
2.2.3. The Spread of Arranged Marriage in Austen’sPeriod............................................................45 2.2.4. The Function of Arranged Marriage in the Novel: A Success or a Failure?...........................46 2.2.5. The Reflection of English Patriarchal Society in the Novel....................................................46 2.2.6. Conflicts Between Female and Male Characters in the Novel................................................47 CHAPTER III 3.AN ANALYSIS OFTHE MILL ON THE FLOSSBY GEORGE ELIOT IN THE LIGHT OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’SA VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN........................49 3.1. THE BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE ELIOT....................................................................................49 3.2. GEORGE ELIOT’S THE MILL ON THE FLOSS........................................................................53 3.2.1. George Eliot’s Position as a Female Novelist.........................................................................54 3.2.2. Gender Roles in Victorian Society..........................................................................................55 3.2.2.1. Gender Roles in Victorian Families.....................................................................................55 3.2.2.2. Discrimination Betweeen the Sister and the Brother (Maggie and Tom)............................57 3.2.2.3. Discrimination Between the Beloved and the Lover............................................................58 3.2.2.4. Comparison and Contrast between Maggie and Lucy in terms of Gender Roles.................60 3.2.3. Educational Problems in Victorian Society.............................................................................61 3.2.3.1. Problems of Education in the Novel.....................................................................................62 3.2.4. Destructive Results of the Stereotyped Gender Roles in the Novel........................................63 CHAPTER IV 4. AN ANALYSIS OFTO THE LIGHTHOUSE
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