Motherly Affection and the Question of Poverty: A Comparative Study of ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ and ‘Someone Else’s Child’
This article considers Jalal Al-Ahmad and Elizabeth Braddon as writers whose fictions voiced attitudes towards poverty and motherhood. Two women, to get rid of poverty, have to get rid of their children in order to remarry. These two women consider remarriage as their only way to happiness and ea...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Lasting Impressions Press
2017-07-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.eltsjournal.org/archive/value5%20issue3/2-5-3-17.pdf |
| Summary: | This article considers Jalal Al-Ahmad and Elizabeth Braddon as writers whose fictions voiced
attitudes towards poverty and motherhood. Two women, to get rid of poverty, have to get rid of their
children in order to remarry. These two women consider remarriage as their only way to happiness
and each one deems her child as an obstacle and gives up her motherly affection for her child. The
study of this common subject in two different cultures is justifiable from the theory of comparative
literature. Thus, aim of this paper is to examine these two English and Persian works from the theory
of confluence so as to show the differences and similarities. The method of this paper is based on
comparative literature ofَ American School which regards confluence as point of investigation and
does not deem direct influence of one author on another as a point of departure. That the two authors
have used one similar subject is a condition for their study and comparison in this school. |
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| ISSN: | 2308-5460 2308-5460 |