Of Women in Patriarchal Gender-Aware Narrative Contexts

This paper tends to address the issue of patriarchy in Wuthering Heights, an English novel and The Unwanted woman, a Persian short story. Although these two literary works are written in different cultural backgrounds, there are some similarities that pave the way for a gender-status analysis. The present research demonstrates women as creatures who are both the other of men and the ones whose mere submission will doom their lives to futility. In societies in which patriarchy is totally fixed, attempting to devastate the dominance of men may at first cause damage to those who defy them and the rebellions may be disappeared off the face of the Earth. Comparing these two literary works, the present author comes up with the conclusion that although women are depraved from some humane rights, there is a hierarchical order in their inferiority. That is to say, gender loses a part of its significance when a Western woman shows an amount of agency in her interaction with her other. A Western woman occupies a better status than an Eastern woman, whereas none of them are occupying the highest power status.