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Abstract
This study, entitled “Stylistic Markers of Gender Sensitivity in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s tale: A Comparative Study”, aims at analyzing how women’s representation in literature has evolved over time, through analyzing and comparing the common stylistic features used by both a male and a female feminist writer, who belong to two different yet successive ages, to represent women characters in their works: Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood. The study also aims at investigating to what extent do cultural and social characteristics of the age affect Thomas Hardy’s and Margaret Atwood’s diction and usage of stylistic indicators in referring to or presenting female characters in their works, as well as the significance of the context of the dialogues in the novels and the authors’ intentionality in defining Hardy’s and Atwood’s style.
This study is a qualitative one in which a descriptive and analytical research design is adopted. Excerpts from the two novels are analyzed separately using Dell Hymes’s model ”SPEAKING”, to analyze the stylistic markers of gender sensitivity, other linguistic approaches, which are relevant to the components of the adopted model, are employed to the data to highlight the extent to which the model operates linguistically and stylistically. The analysis highlights that although Hardy and Atwood both discuss feminism, there are differences between their works in terms of historical setting, narrative approach, focus on certain issues, and cultural reception. These differences contribute to distinctive feminist narrative strategies that reflect the issues and viewpoints of their separate times. While both authors address feminism, they do so in different historical, social, and literary settings. As a consequence, their investigations into gender, sexuality, marriage, and societal power systems take various forms. Overall, by questioning patriarchal standards, delving into sexuality and reproductive rights, and developing unique female characters that connect with readers, both works have influenced feminist fiction. They have emphasized the continuous fight for gender equality and the necessity for women’s voices to be heard. They have inspired significant conversations and influenced feminist discourse.