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Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women has been read as a representative American children’s literature which played the role of socializing the adolescent girls according to the domesticity ideology of the mid 19th century’s American society. This essay attempts to reread Little Women as a complex text with multiple layers of meaning by investigating the double narratives of domesticity ideology.
On the surface narrative the text seems to strongly support the domesticity ideology in which marriage and home are regarded as the proper spheres for women and innocence, submission and morality are considered to be the female virtues. This ideology is enforced by Mr. March and Mrs. March and affirmed through the plot in which all the March girls except Beth learn to be submissive and self-sacrificial and finally succeed in marriage. However, the author attempts to disrupt or subvert the surface narrative in several ways. Mrs. March is repetitiously described as expressing surreptitiously her unconventional thoughts of woman’s life and marriage and then going back to the traditional gender codes. Moreover, despite the presence of the father figures, the women’s community is vividly described on the foreground. And the fact that submissive and Beth, the exemplar of the true womanhood is destined to die implies such a self-denying life ultimately leads to self-destruction. It is through the narrative of Jo March that the author’s tensions between the needs to affirm the domesticity ideology and the subtle desires to resist them are clearly shown. Even if the author resists against the conventional gender ideology by creating an independent and ambitious heroine, she seems to succumb to the ideology by putting Jo into marriage. Despite an unsatisfactory ending, undoubtedly Little Women can be read as a significant work with complicated layers of meaning whose tensions and contradictions reflect the author’s subtle attempts to disrupt the dominant ideology.
On the surface narrative the text seems to strongly support the domesticity ideology in which marriage and home are regarded as the proper spheres for women and innocence, submission and morality are considered to be the female virtues. This ideology is enforced by Mr. March and Mrs. March and affirmed through the plot in which all the March girls except Beth learn to be submissive and self-sacrificial and finally succeed in marriage. However, the author attempts to disrupt or subvert the surface narrative in several ways. Mrs. March is repetitiously described as expressing surreptitiously her unconventional thoughts of woman’s life and marriage and then going back to the traditional gender codes. Moreover, despite the presence of the father figures, the women’s community is vividly described on the foreground. And the fact that submissive and Beth, the exemplar of the true womanhood is destined to die implies such a self-denying life ultimately leads to self-destruction. It is through the narrative of Jo March that the author’s tensions between the needs to affirm the domesticity ideology and the subtle desires to resist them are clearly shown. Even if the author resists against the conventional gender ideology by creating an independent and ambitious heroine, she seems to succumb to the ideology by putting Jo into marriage. Despite an unsatisfactory ending, undoubtedly Little Women can be read as a significant work with complicated layers of meaning whose tensions and contradictions reflect the author’s subtle attempts to disrupt the dominant ideology.
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Alcott, Louisa May , 1989 , Little Women , Penguin Books
Armstrong, Frances , 1992 , Here Little, and Hereafter Bliss: Little Women and the Deferral of Greatness , American Literature 64 (3) : 453 ~ 474
Auerbach, Nina , 1978 , Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction , Harvard UP
Bedell, Madelon , 1984 , “Beneath the Surface: Power and Passion in Little Women.” Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott
Blackford, Holly , 2006 , Vital Signs at Play: Objects as Vessels of Mother-Daughter Discourse in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women , Children’s Literature 34 : 1 ~ 36
Armstrong, Frances , 1992 , Here Little, and Hereafter Bliss: Little Women and the Deferral of Greatness , American Literature 64 (3) : 453 ~ 474
Auerbach, Nina , 1978 , Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction , Harvard UP
Bedell, Madelon , 1984 , “Beneath the Surface: Power and Passion in Little Women.” Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott
Blackford, Holly , 2006 , Vital Signs at Play: Objects as Vessels of Mother-Daughter Discourse in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women , Children’s Literature 34 : 1 ~ 36
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