A Critical Analysis Of Feride's 'The Wren'

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The Wren is written in the style of the nineteenth century realist fiction. The author does not limit himself to realistic perspectives, but deals with questions about women’s status and circumstances in a patriarchal society along with limited means for attaining empowerment at an earlier time before the dawn of women 's rights. The author writes about a female character who is engaged in a quest for freedom and self-realization. Feride goes through some serious changes that influence her self-perceptions and her views of the society which ranks her below men and presents her with a restricted lifestyle. Feride challenges the social restrictions and comes out of her experience with more empowerment. The Wren centers on a woman character …show more content…

She therefore suppresses her femininity by wearing the veil. She lives in accordance with the Islamic rules and tries to protect herself from the male gaze. This causes her role as educator to become very limited because she is primarily seen as a domestic being. Her educator’s capacity is not taken seriously and just because she claims her rights in the public life, the village people see her as a threat to the village. Finding herself in an impossible position, Ferdie seeks solace in the little girl Munise. She adopts this little girl who escapes from domestic abuse and become a surrogate mother to her. Despite the villagers objections, Feride makes a life for herself and Munise in the little house above the school. By doing this, she challenges her oppressors and rejects the subordinate role they try to fit her in. Some women in the village support her cause and she gains territory among her kind as she refuses to live according to the rules men dictate. The author’s Feride character goes thorough many degrees of oppression and suffers from the limited possibilities for women and he sees an opportunity for survival for the female. Feride comes across as an oppressed woman, yet she leaves the village like a strong army commander. She realizes her aims and attains self-fulfillment and self-respect at the end of her long struggle against the conservative mail-order. She thus rises to the ranks of a heroic woman, an ideal Turkish female, who represents the new, independent female of modern Turkish

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