Posted: September 13th, 2017

The Role of Female Voice and its' Silencing in The Wife's Lament, Man of Law Tale's and Margery Kempe

The Role of Female Voice and its’ Silencing in The Wife’s Lament, Man of Law Tale’s and Margery Kempe

Order Description

REF/SOURCES FOR ESSAY & RESEARCH CAN ONLY BE THE ATTACHMENTS I PROVIDE, NO ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES CAN BE UTILIZED AS CREDIT IN WORK CITED PAGE. If writer needs an online version of The Book of Margery Kempe, please use ISBN: 978-0-393-97639-7, translated and edited by Lynn Staley, a Norton Critical Edition

ESSAY FOCUS:
The research essay must focus on the perception of women in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Culture in The Wife’s Lament, Chaucers, Man of Law Tale’s and The Book of Margery Kemep, with specific focus on how the female voice is silenced by male perspective in the medieval patriarchal culture.

EXPERIENCE OF TRAVEL IN M.D. LITERATURE:
The essay should analyze the experience of travel and how it is desirable, role of suffering motivated by traveling, how travel provokes emotion and the characters agency over travel. In addition, essay should demonstrate and contrast female exilic experience, women agency, female voice and silencing in these 3 text and the additional supporting research I’ve provided. Also, contrast how the role of silencing in Margery Kempe counters role of female voice adapts male perspective in Man of Law Tales and The Wife’s Lament.

ELEMENTS/PARTS OF PROBLEM STATEMENT:
The elements of the essay must include parts of a Typical Problem Statement: (DOC DESCRIBING PARTS OF PROBLEM STMT WILL BE UPLOADED FOR THE WRITER TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF EACH)
Parts of Problem Statement:
Stable context
Destabilizing Condition
Consequences
Solution

MUST BE INCLUDED & ADDRESSED:
This essay analyzes and compares female narrators and a combination of five female characters in The Wife’s Lement, Man of Law Tale’s and The book of Margery Kempe, and aims to demonstrate the role of female voice and how “silencing” is addressed in each text, analyzing what the text reveals regarding the masculine perspective.
The essay will also contrast the role of ‘silencing’ in Margery Kempe and how it counters the role of female voice to adapt male perspective in The Man of Law’s Tale and The Wife’s Lement. In The Book of Margery Kempe, masculine perspective in medieval culture is the dominant order. How does Margery’s resistance to medieval culture characterize her masculinity? What does Margery Kemep destabilize, how and its’ result. What is the role of feminism in The Book of Margery Kempe? Do the female narrators and characters rebel against the patriarchal order or do they accept their inferior role to men? In order to answer these questions women’s status in the medieval culture as seen through historical sources and the differences of patriarch will be looked at; their legal status, prevailing ideas of about their inherent qualities, influence of the clergy, biblical and religious views on gender and the restrictions women faced in society.
It aims to provide answers to the following fundamental questions: how are the female narrators and characters represented? Are female narrators given their own subjectivity or are they merely the voices of dominant male order? If the narrator of Wife’s Lament is silenced by her patriarchal culture, is Custance suffering also a sign of silencing? What are the writers of these two poems using silencing to say (about travel, the female characters, etc.). Why and how does “silencing” emerge in the context of medieval travel?

THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS LISTED ABOVE MUST BE ANSWERED IN BODY OF ESSAY.

CHARACTERS:
Specific characters to analyze and reference are:
Constance (Man of Law)
Sultaness (Man of Law-Sultan Mom)
Dongeoild (Man of Law – King Alla mom)
Wife (The Wife’s Lement)
Margery Kemep (The Book of Margery Kempe)