Papers by Chayma Bouzenag
MA dissertation , 2020
Theocratic communities often provide an atmosphere for injustice against individuals, es... more Theocratic communities often provide an atmosphere for injustice against individuals, especially women. This dissertation examines the relationship between dogmatic theocracies, and oppressed women in two distinct theocratic settings; 17 and 19 th th century Puritan New England, century Afghan Taliban. For this purpose, the selected case stud protagonists, Hester and Mariam, of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ies are the female The Scarlet Letter , and Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns respectively. Case studies were studied according to a set of agency and passivity devices based on textual evid ence. In particular, feminist stylistics was the key theory in such study that utilized both quantitative and qualitative data analyses. A nalyses obtained from the inspection of authors’ syntactic choices have shown that female protagonists were primarily silenced and deprived from their power by passivity devices, albeit the use of certain agency devices. Thus, these grammatical choices served to confirm the existence of a link between women’s passivized existence and their lives in extremist theocratic societies.
Keywords: The Scarlet Letter, A Thousand Splendid Suns theocracy. , passivity, feminist stylistics,
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Papers by Chayma Bouzenag
Keywords: The Scarlet Letter, A Thousand Splendid Suns theocracy. , passivity, feminist stylistics,
Keywords: The Scarlet Letter, A Thousand Splendid Suns theocracy. , passivity, feminist stylistics,