Mariticide in Glaspell's Trifles vs. Uxoricide in Ahmad's Song for a Sanctuary: A Feminist Reading of Spousal Violence

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Department of English Language Faculty of Languages and Translation, Al-Azhar University

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Over its history, feminist literature has proven to be the voice of the voiceless, oppressed women in a male-centered society. The spousal violence against women has always been omnipresent in all societies, which may regrettably lead to one of the spouses being killed by the other. This study examines how spousal violence in Susan Glaspell's Trifles (1916) has resulted in 'mariticide' and how it has led to 'uxoricide' in Rukhsana Ahmad's Song for a Sanctuary (1991). This paper purports to read both Glaspell's Trifles and Ahmad's Song for a Sanctuary from a feminist perspective. The aim of choosing the feminist approach is to resist the phenomenon of spousal violence, and to attempt to find cures for such a social disease. The researcher explores the way in which Glaspell and Ahmad dramatize their hatred for the spousal violence against women through displaying its evil fruits, of mariticide and uxoricide. In view of this, Glaspell and Ahmad accentuate the significance of female bonding as an attempt to cure such a social disease.

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