THE SYMBOL OF WOMEN IN FAY WELDON’S LITERARY WORKS

Аннотация:

Fay Weldon CBE was an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrayed contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society. Her works “Weekend” (story), “The fat woman’s joke” and others are the works in which she illustrates the defect of society analogues to the role of females and males. As a feminist writer, reflects the problems of women in patriarchal societies by referring to the conflicts between women and men. She criticizes the prejudice of the male-dominated society against women and underlines the necessity to eliminate the oppression imposed upon the female and to change the perspective of society towards women. Widely known as a feminist postmodern writer dealing with the issues related to women and their position in society, Fay Weldon, herself, experiences the misery and the suffering many women have been faced with due to the oppression of the male-dominated world. Being a single mother, she has to cope with financial problems and the hardships of life, as a result of which she begins to write about the problems of women. Therefore, her biography is compatible with her works in which she refers to the troubles of women and the oppression inflicted upon them. Moreover, being brought up in a house full of women, she finds the opportunity to witness the unfair situations happening to women.