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Estereotipos femininos y masculinos en Los pazos de Ulloa y La regenta Ema Luisa Flynn de Garcia Edith Cowan University

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ESTEREOTIPOS FEMENINOS Y MASCULINOS EN

LOS PAZOS DE ULLOA Y LA REGENTA

EMA LUISA FLYNN DE GARCiA

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EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY

THIS THESIS IS PRESENTED FOR A BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS DEGREE AT THE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE & MEDIA STUDIES FACULTY OF ARTS NOVEMBER 1994

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I certifY that this thesis does not incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any Institution of Higher Education, and that to the best of my ability and belief it does not contain any material previously published or written by any other person except where due reference is made in the text.

Date:

November 7th, !994

DEDICACION

En el afio de nuestra Bodas de Plata dedi co esta tesis a rni esposo Hector Jorge Garcia, y a nuestros cuatro hijos, Magdalena, Sebastifm, Javier y Amalia, quienes me brindaron a manos llenas amor, apoyo y entusiasmo durante los meses de estudio.

INDICE Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. 1

Abstract ................................................................................................................... 2

Introducci6n ............................................................................................................. 4 Caiitulo 1:

Justificaci6n de los temas analizados en este estudio .............................. 5

Capitulo 2:

Introducci6n Hist6rica ..................................................................... 11

Capitulo 3:

El realismo y el naturalismo .......................... .

Capitulo 4:

Biografias de: F~;lia

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Pardo Bazan .............................................................. 25

Leopolda Alas "Clarin" .......................................................... 28

Capitulo 5:

ResUmenes de:

La Rege/1/a ........................................................................... 30 Los Pazos de Ulloa ..................... ......................................... 32

Capitulo 6:

Personajes femeninos en La Regenta ......... .

Capitulo 7:

Personajes masculinos en La Regenta ................................................ 50

Capitulo 8:

Personajes femeninos en LosPazosde Ulloa ..................................... 60

Capitulo 9:

Personajes masculines en Los Pazos de Ulloa .................................... 75

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ConclusiOn ............................................................... ....................... 92

Bibliografia ............................................................................................................ 98

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank first, and foremost, my supervisor, Francisco Martinez, for his guidance with the research for this work, and his patience in correcting the final draft of this thesis. I am also grateful to Javier Albillos, Jose Airas Page and my sister, Maria Magdalena Flynn, for providing me with many relevant books necessary to

carry out my study.

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this thesis is to find possible feminine stereotypes in two XIX century Spanish novels, Los Pazos de Ulloa, written by Emilia Pardo Bazan, and La Regenta by Leopolda Alas "Ciarin", both considered realist or naturalists works of fiction. The

analysis of the two novels is based on works with feminist perspectives regarding the

way women are portrayed in fiction.

The belated flowering of the Spanish realist and the naturalist novel came about due to the state Spain was in at the time in question. There was no industrial revolution in Spain as in other neighbouring countries and the national economy was still based on agriculture. Political instability produced several changes of government and military

uprisings. The Church was very powerful and intrusive. Both the oligarchy and the Church were corrupt and overpowering. The population at large was very poor, uneducated and not yet organised to demand a better deaL The 1868 Revolution put forward more progressive attitudes which paved the way for changes in the intellectual scene.

Leopolda Alas published La Regenta as an acid critique of the moral conuption of the Catholic Church, the government of the time and the bourgeoisie. In the mediocre town ofVet·.:sta the author presents a variety of stereotypical personalities. Fermin De Pas is an ambitious bishop who wishes to control the town and lusts after Ana, a young married woman. When Ana falls for the local Don Juan she is despised and

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ostracised by the town. The three main characters and the whole town live by appearances. The novel is a bleak and pessimistic picture of human relations, where individuals have choose to behave in a certain way regardless of the consequences.

Emilia Pardo Bazan in her work Los Pazos de Ulloa describes life and nature in rural Galicia and the fight between the animal side and the spiritual side of the individual. Two young women, Sabel and Nucha, become involved in the life of the marquis of

Ulloa.

Both lover and wife are the true victims of the owner of the pazos and his way of life. Portrayed as stereotypical both women have their lives determined by the men around them.

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INTRODUCCION

El presente trabajo incursiona dentro de dos novelas ciRsicas espaflolas del siglo XIX, representativas del periodo Naturalista, a saber, Los Pazos de Ulloa, par Emilia Pardo Bazan, y La Regenta par Leopolda AJas "Clarin".

El amilisis esti centrad a en los estereotipos a que las protagonistas est