What is it about?
The article takes us into discussing patriarchal authority in the political thought of the early modern time in France and that of the Victorian England.The “Bluebeard” fairytale changes in the domain of gender as a response to certain historical and psychological changes are analyzed. A wide range of writings is investigated to reveal the contribution made by the French and English authors in the field of literature. The analysis implies that certain feministic ideas which grew out of social changes in the society of France and England have provoked some archetypal alterations in the texts of French and English modernists.
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Why is it important?
The article provides a comparative study of the first Bluebeard fairytale and its modern variant, giving us possibilities to estimate a gradual character of alterations, taking place in the main gender archetypes of the tale.
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This scientific research gives opportunities to understand the very essence of a fairytale phenomenon and unveils the consequences of its functioning in the modern literary process. I hope this article will help the reader understand the specifics of the eternal archetype functioning in the mentalities of different centuries.
Valery Dmitrieva
I.I.Mechnikov Odessa National University
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This page is a summary of: Gender Alterations in English and French Modernist “Bluebeard” Fairytale, English Language and Literature Studies, August 2016, Canadian Center of Science and Education,
DOI: 10.5539/ells.v6n3p16.
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