Add to ORKGConstrained for submissiveness, Victorian women were supposed to be silent and not to express their opinions, except on command. The Piano (1993), written and directed by Jane Campion, is set in the mid-nineteenth century, describing a mute Scottish woman (Ada McGrath), who uses silence to claim her voice and self-assertion. If in the patriarchal Victorian society, women and wives are supposed to be submissive, obedient, and silent, Ada chooses to subversively follow the norm to the extreme: by stopping speaking forever. Ironically, while voice acts as empowerment and subjectivity, Ada’s silence lets her escape the patriarchal oppression and gain some power and freedom to reach her subjectivity. Keywords: silence; Victorian morality; patria...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Any examination of female silence and speech has to consider the context in which such images were c...
Speech is, and always has been, at the heart of folkloristic research, from the traditional focus ...
There is a scene two-thirds of the way through The Piano in which the film's heroine, Ada, lies stre...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the...
Silence is a concept both praised and criticised when put to practice. The latest trends in society ...
Women of every culture face a similar problem: loss of voice. Their lives are permeated with silence...
Silence, voice and power are the main themes in this essay. The purpose is to analyze how the silenc...
The exploration of the theme and narration of silence in Virginia Woolf\u27s novels in this disserta...
In this paper I explore the power of the female protagonist of the cinematic narrative The Piano, wr...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
Wilkie Collins is a major sensation author of the Victorian period, known for introducing the form o...
The paper examines the patriarchal bent of society in which Jaya lives and how this male oriented sy...
My dissertation argues that silence provides a lens through which we can trace the development of th...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Any examination of female silence and speech has to consider the context in which such images were c...
Speech is, and always has been, at the heart of folkloristic research, from the traditional focus ...
There is a scene two-thirds of the way through The Piano in which the film's heroine, Ada, lies stre...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define the silence as the...
Silence is a concept both praised and criticised when put to practice. The latest trends in society ...
Women of every culture face a similar problem: loss of voice. Their lives are permeated with silence...
Silence, voice and power are the main themes in this essay. The purpose is to analyze how the silenc...
The exploration of the theme and narration of silence in Virginia Woolf\u27s novels in this disserta...
In this paper I explore the power of the female protagonist of the cinematic narrative The Piano, wr...
This dissertation responds to and intends to subvert binary interpretations of silence, particularly...
Wilkie Collins is a major sensation author of the Victorian period, known for introducing the form o...
The paper examines the patriarchal bent of society in which Jaya lives and how this male oriented sy...
My dissertation argues that silence provides a lens through which we can trace the development of th...
In this dissertation, I close read four turn-of-the-century American novels by Henry James, Kate ...
Studies have tended to focus on implied, not indicated, silences and/or to define silence as the opp...
Any examination of female silence and speech has to consider the context in which such images were c...
Speech is, and always has been, at the heart of folkloristic research, from the traditional focus ...