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Titill: 
  • Titill er á ensku The Cracked Mirror: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Reflections on Gender Inequality in "The Lady of Shalott"
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  • Bakkalár
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    Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shallot” contains an enigmatic tale which can be interpreted as very relevant to society, most specifically for women who have been subordinated to patriarchy. The poem conveys in an elusive way the imbalanced gender ideology of Victorian Britain, using a metaphor entailing social and cultural contexts. Furthermore, it highly emphasizes the representations of both genders as either belonging to public and private spheres, or who are domineering and submissive, respectively. Like the Lady of Shalott, women were victims of social marginalisation, no matter how vital their roles were in a community. In his poem, Tennyson delineates gender roles and conditions from previous periods in British history, such as the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Victorian eras, in which women were considered less by society because of the limitation of their bodies. Likewise, it also presents their subjection as “redundancy”, in which a woman was bound only to marriage and to whatever her husband would provide.
    One of the activities that Victorian women were comfortable with was needlecraft, and this is Tennyson’s inspiration behind the Lady’s creativity in weaving. This also serves as their defence mechanism, or self-suppression, as to how they could control the thoughts of their oppressive circumstances, which are surfacing in their consciousness, by diverting their frustrations into something valuable while they build their aspirations on fulfilling their potential in society. Feminism has evolved because of women meeting to engage in needlework behind closed doors. The professions such as that of governess, nurse and midwife were entitled for women because these occupations are what they normally do in their private sphere. However, they were finally given recognition for these professions because they are truly essential to society. Likewise, the Lady of Shalott only achieves recognition from the public sphere of Camelot when she flees from her isolation amidst hardship and even in sorrow.

Samþykkt: 
  • 18.1.2016
URI: 
  • http://hdl.handle.net/1946/23592


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