نوع المشرف

مشرف رئيسي

تاريخ الاشراف على الرسالة من

2022

الى

2023

اسم الطالب

وصال سالم عبدالرحمن البويطل

ملخص الرسالة

This work is a feminist study that examines the status of women in a Puritan society in two classical American works, The Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The research displays the historical presentation of the status of women in the American patriarchal society, concerning their rights and their duties. The research identifies the types of women in both works, namely “pure”, “anti-Puritan”, and “patriarchal women”. It discusses sin and punishment in Puritan society. It also compares analyses of the punishment of women to that of men, as presented in The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter. This study uses the analytical method to discuss each of the two studied works through a feminist perspective; and it uses two important feminist concepts, “Patriarchy” and the “Other”, and applies them to both works. This study criticizes the portrayal of women in a stereotypical way. It analyses the treatment of women as both demons who deserve punishment or as victims of a patriarchal society.