![]() ![]() Most often in a broad sense, the representation of women in literature is comprised largely of variations upon the stereotypical images of the virgin and whore, wicked witch and child-like innocent, Eve and Magdalene, wife, mother and mistress. In particular, feminist critics have altered us to the way in which women are often constructed as ‘other’ to a male norm.” Instead of being perceived as identities in their own right, women characters tend to function as locations for male desires, fears and anxieties about the female. ![]() To Pam Morris, “feminist critical reading of canonical texts reveals a pervasive misinterpretation of women within the literary tradition. ![]() While analyzing Turgenev’s representation of various women characters in Fathers and Sons, one important underlying question would be how ‘true’ or ‘authentic’ this representation would be. Turgenev’s women are frequently seen as prototypes of this tradition and Russian readers are as familiar with their names and personalities as real life acquaintances. In Russian literature, it is the pre-dominantly male authored Russian realist novel which has produced some of the most remarkable and complex female characters in the whole of the novel genre in the absence of Russian counterparts of female realist novelists such as Jane Austen, the Brontes or George Elliot. Discuss the representation of the women characters in Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons”. ![]()
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