Feministic Perspective in English Fiction

Abstract

Feminism is about women having political economic and social rights equal to those of men, if we deny them to women; we have denied the rights of half the people in all over the world. In the archaic society women often enjoyed vantage to their society of so- called civilized society they existed as more independent entities in their own established customs and attitudes because the economic structure of their society was simpler. But with the advancement of the civilization simplicity got destroyed and a complicated form took birth and the frame work of society underwent a rapid transformation and the position of women kept changing along with it. Woman got thus reduced to the status of a reproductive machine and while man’s sphere kept amplifying, her space kept abbreviating. In short she became the private property of man and he applied all the methods such as social, religious, ethical commands to establish is dominance over woman. This paper, thus, attempts to look at various issues and aspects concerning woman subjugation and woman emancipation widely dealt in English fiction.