Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ214232

Gender and Imposed Masculinity in The Novels of Earnest Hemingway

Authors(2) :-Dr. Anita Goswami, Balbir Kaur Bhasin

The God has created this beautiful world and in this beautiful, world he has sent some beautiful artists, known as Gender. There is a great controversy on Gender roles. Gender is nothing but a social construct. It is our society who decides certain norms for male and female performance in the society. Gender performance is based on our expressions and behavior. But sometimes Gender role becomes the hurdles in the growth of humanity when it is imposed by the society. Ernest Hemingway (1898–1961), is a most famous writer who has contributed greatly to the history of American literature or even world literature. He left the world with a series of vivid characters and a fresh wind of conciseness. Through a series of prominent novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, we can sense his profound thoughts against war and humanism. The suffering of his protagonists is just what Hemingway has suffered, such as the wounds from the wars, the insomnia, and strong frustrations. Psychoanalysis is one of the modern theories that are used in English literature. It is a theory that is regarded as a theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality that guides psychoanalysis. It is known that the closet connection between literature and psychoanalysis has always been deployed by the academic field of literary criticism or literary theory. Among the critical approaches to literature, the psychoanalysis has been one of the most controversial and for many readers the least appreciated. In spite of that it has been regarded one of the fascinating and rewarding approach in the application of interpretative analysis.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Anita Goswami
Assistant Professor of English, IEC University, Himachal Pradesh India.
Balbir Kaur Bhasin
Research Scholar, Department of English, IEC University, Himachal Pradesh , India.

Gender, psychoanalysis, Insomnia, Humanism, Unconscious, Subconscious.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 5 | September-October 2021
Date of Publication : 2021-09-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 28-33
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ214232
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Dr. Anita Goswami, Balbir Kaur Bhasin, "Gender and Imposed Masculinity in The Novels of Earnest Hemingway", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 4, Issue 5, pp.28-33, September-October.2021
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