Eliot’s Early Ladies Beyond Gender Binary
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Eliot’s ladies have long been a critical focus, especially since the psychoanalytical and feminist criticism prevailed in the 1980s. Many critics, heavily depending on his biographical facts, labelled Eliot a misogynist and viewed his lady characters as scapegoats of misogyny. It is true that they cannot be separated from the ladies in his real life, as Eliot himself endorsed that poetry originates from the personal experience. However, his poetry from the very beginning is an analysis of his personal experience that was put under the scrutiny of self-irony. Eliot’s ladies are thus rendered symbolic of humanity in general. They are continuous with the men characters in their role as the sufferer and the suffered at the same time. This duality of Eliot’s ladies, along with his duality as a poet, is reflected and symbolized in the interchangeability of dissected bodies between female and male. Ironically enough, they have to be fragmented―depersonalized―first in order to be reconstructed. Their eventual transcendence beyond gender binary is the common ground for the redemption of humanity.
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Eliot’s ladies have long been a critical focus, especially since the psychoanalytical and feminist criticism prevailed in the 1980s. Many critics, heavily depending on his biographical facts, labelled Eliot a misogynist and viewed his lady characters as scapegoats of misogyny. It is true that they cannot be separated from the ladies in his real life, as Eliot himself endorsed that poetry originates from the personal experience. However, his poetry from the very beginning is an analysis of his personal experience that was put under the scrutiny of self-irony. Eliot’s ladies are thus rendered symbolic of humanity in general. They are continuous with the men characters in their role as the sufferer and the suffered at the same time. This duality of Eliot’s ladies, along with his duality as a poet, is reflected and symbolized in the interchangeability of dissected bodies between female and male. Ironically enough, they have to be fragmented―depersonalized―first in order to be reconstructed. Their eventual transcendence beyond gender binary is the common ground for the redemption of humanity.
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