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The last book that I read was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I did not realize it, but the entire time I was reading it through a feminist lens. I was thinking about how Jane and Mr. Rochester interact with each other. Reading the book through that lens made me enjoy the book even more. Based off that, I decided that I was going to read Beloved by Toni Morrison through a Feminist/Gender Lens. I will be looking at how gender impacts the way characters interact with each other and how a character's gender affects them. I think that gender plays a huge role in a book, whether it is a female or male protagonist. I considered looking reading Beloved through a Post-Colonial lens because I enjoyed learning about the colonizing period in the Worlds history. After a lot of thinking and reflecting on how I have read books in the past, I realized that most of the time, I am reading books through a Gender Lens. I look forward I will find a lot of characters and instances in the book that make me passionate, so you all can read about it. I am ecstatic to be able to write down my opinions and thoughts about how gender affects the book and how the character reflects society, whether it is comparing it to modern times or the time that the book is taking place.
Reading through a feminist lens is truly a fun and interesting view to read. You may also find that while reading there are many ways how the other lenses such as post-colonial lens and feminist lens blend together in some ways like how men try to take a controlling position over females as one population controlling another and suppressing a revulsion so that they can keep their power. You can go far more into depth if you read this way and you get to have the best of both worlds so have fun.
ReplyDeleteI really like your blog! I agree with you that gender roles affects people.
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