Sanam Shahedali
Professor Ms. Firouzeh Ameri, PhD
Short Story – English Literature MA (95)
26 January 2017
One can cry out
With a voice quite false, quite remote
‘I love…’
(Forough Farrokhzad, Clockwork Doll)
This essay will provide a comparative
analysis between Alice Munro’s Short Story “Amundsen” (2012) and Charlotte Brontë’s
novel Jane Eyre (1847) in order to achieve a view of conflicting
gender roles in these two works. A careful examination of the leading female
characters in the aforementioned works yields fascinating insight into the
differences and similarities between their perceived inner worlds as they
struggle in and out of a space marked by various limitations and opportunities provided
for them by the forces of society, nature, and instinct.
