Social Roles And Stereotypes In Anne Of Green Gables

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Introduction:
If there is anything that shaped my childhood the most is the cartoons that I could not forgive myself if I mess one of their episodes. Like most of my peers I consumed blindly whatever the television labeled as children program, but unlike them I enjoyed the stories that were adapted from real works of literature. One of the common experience that I used to come across repeatedly in these stories is orphanhood.
Undoubtedly, losing one of the parents or both of them could be nothing but a devastating chock for a child. Perhaps this is why many writers, during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, deployed orphan characters as a didactic medium to convince the young readers to leave their mothers' lap and to journey in this wide world alone. However, though this goal may sound promising, the messages, the values and the social roles included in this category of literature may burry any possible didactic discourse and foreground just stereotypes.
Anne of Green Gables is a part of this literary legacy. Written by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), the novel tells the story of an orphan female that her fate mistakenly took her to a house in the country side owned by a brother and a sister. Marilla demanded from the orphanage to send them a boy to help the old Matthew in his farming works. First, she could not bear the idea of raising a useless girl, but her brother, astonished by the girl personality, found no harm in giving her a room under their roof.
When I read this novel last year I passed the scene of Marilia nagging about adopting a girl at a glance . However, after spending few months in women's and gender studies master program, this scene was one of th...

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...s mental disorder.
When Anne Arrived the first time to Green Gables she renamed most of the places that attracted her and sometimes she could not find the perfect words to describe some of them. This imaginary authority of renaming what is beautiful, can be read as an unconscious act which reflects a deep rejection and a challenge to the dominant thoughts that the daily language enhances.
The concept of a good girl is almost indefinable since the elements that intervene to formulate it vary between what is behavioral, physical and mental and the girl find herself obliged to make a balance between them even though they may contradict each others.

Conclusion
In this paper I tried to illustrate the relation between orphanhood, gender and socialization in light of the novel Anne of Green Gables.
Experience category and a process

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