The ministering and flying status of angel: Analysis of the image of Mrs.Klima in The Farewell Waltz

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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Male Gaze, Female Consciousness, The Farewell Waltz

Abstract

The text utilized feminism gaze theory in analysising Mrs. Klima, whose image reflected sleeping and awaking of female's self-consciousness under the oppression of patriarchy, vividly demonstrated Milan Kundera's ambivalent attitude toward women.The Farewell Waltz is one of the major works of Milan Kundera, it has won Italian Award for Best Foreign Literary. The novel took Soviet invasion of Prague as political background, through telling complicated stories of eight characters, philosophically disscussed complicated problems of life. Among these characters, Mrs.Klima is definitely an impressive one. Through the image of Kamila, Milan Kundera deeply described the sleeping and awaking process of female's self-consciousness under the oppression of patriarchy.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - The ministering and flying status of angel: Analysis of the image of Mrs.Klima in The Farewell Waltz
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