A Feminist Reading Of Emmadonoghue’s Novel "Room"

As the most influential writer in Ireland, Emma Donoghue published herstrenuous effort Room in2010, narrating love which is even greater and rougher thanthat in the movie The Life Is Beautiful. The novel earns her top ten books in The2010New York times, Man Booker Prize and Ireland’s annual prize for fiction. The cageof a young mother is in turn the whole world of her son. The story is told from thenaive tone of a five-years-old boy, Jack, and thus full of curiosity. It is by no means ahorror fiction, with no attempt to draw tear from the audience; it is only an inflectionof the purest domestic affection. The five-year-old Jack touches the heart of everyone.Beautiful love story or not, it is a story about a young women being held captive in asmall cage built by a man in a patriarchal society, acting as the aphasic angel, thesymbol of desire in the gaze of men. At last, she makes her own revolt, which is themanifestation of the author’s feminist ideas. The interpretation of the heroine Anne isthe best explanation of the author’s feminist ideology.The thesis consists of three parts. Chapter one is an imprisoned woman inpatriarchal society introduced Anne is imprisoned inside the Room and how she feelsin chains. In Old Nick created the patriarchal society, and how she loses her freedom.The authors mainly use Beauvior’s views of “the Other”. Chapter two introduces theaphasic in the patriarchal society and the state of Anne in the Room, how she lostfreedom and become the “Angel in the house”. The author uses Beauvior and Woolf’sfeminism views in reference. Chapter three introduces the awakening of woman in apatriarchal society; this chapter chiefly uses the methods of Woolf’s masterpieces inher novel A Room of One’s Own. Anne was awakened by the power of mother’s love.Anne and Jack escaped from the Old Nick’s room, the male’s room, and finally theyreturn to the room with her son.To acquaint the audience of the novel, the author uses the feminist perspective inBeauvior’s The Second Sex for reference and the view of Woolf.