Abstract
This paper demonstrates how a critical reading of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men reveals oppression on female character and unequal gender relationship. The paper attempts to examine Curley's wife with regard to feminist approach. Steinbeck has viewed only single female character in the novel as a devil incarnation, a symbolic Eve who burnt lives of men in paradise. The paper interprets the novel from Derrida's theory of Logocentrism which provide framework for the author to correspond in underlying logical assumption. It could be seen that the characterization of Curley's wife is not complimentary in the novel rather more of derogatory. She has been subjected to numerous fixed features of stereotyping by the ranchmen. Her tragic death has been justified as the only logical reason for bringing stability in men's world. The paper has intended to go through the issue of gender discrimination much more profoundly and has found the dominant viewpoint which has hijacked the whole atmosphere of the novel and certain group of characters has assigned fixed roles for woman and his roles for in society and family.
Highlights
Derrida’s Logocentrism fundamentally explores how male authors have targeted the female characters in their works
Logocentrism beholds the tradition of western knowledge which consider language or any mode of representation as the basic expression of external reality
Logocentrism implies dichotomous structure which socially fabricate the privileged term of self/other
Summary
Derrida’s Logocentrism fundamentally explores how male authors have targeted the female characters in their works. His preliminary research in phenomenology has put forward all the dominant thinking in western society. Derrida brought forth various deconstructive reading strategies through which a specific literary text is analyzed and criticized in its varied manifestation His theory of Phallogocentrism is hall mark of identifying binary opposition and studied the discourse of meaning and value adhered to female. Stereotypes are some distinctive features and images which western society has reinforced it on communities because of their color, race, nationality and sex orientation These hierarchies of discrimination are broadly thought as an accurate portrayal of reality and this incomplete or disturbed information resulted in facts without questions. All the female characters in his novels are assumed as insufficiently constructed. Lisca (1978) pointed out that male relationship not women were the focus
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