The predicament of woman : a feminist reading in selected Victorian poetry

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This paper highlights the plight and the predicament of woman during the Victorian age.

The thematic concern of this study casts light on the predicament of women in form of discrimination, segregation and oppression.

The feminist theory is applied in analyzing the texts that are selected for the study.

The study is limited to two major poets of the Victorian age namely Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.

The poems are My Last Duchess, The Lady of Shallot and Mariana.

The paper shows how woman are dehumanized and reduced to inferior entity and a kind like salves who whenever wants to cross the borders of the gender roles to get the penalty that reaches to extermination.