Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2017 in the subject
Literature - Slavic Literature, University of Balochistan, language:
English, abstract: Maxim Gorky is one of the great portraitists of
typification of women in Russian as well as in world literature. He
presents a panoramic gallery of female characters such as Nilovna,
Sophia, Natasha, Sasha and Ludmilla in his debate-raging novel "Mother".
These female personages belong to the various social classes of the
Russian social formation but they possess universality in their
personalities whom we have often met every day and everywhere in our
daily life. Gorky endows them with class-consciousness, which enables
them to involve in the revolutionary proletariat movement, considering
Socialism the only way of woman's emancipation and enfranchisement as
well as class-liberation. This paper tends to focus on the re-evaluation
and investigation into Maxim Gorky's realistic depiction of these women
to delineate their revolutionary roles in the structure of his novel as
well as in the Russian Communist politics and social formation form a
Marxist Feminist perspective in a new and innovative way. How these
female figures are developed from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois
class-milieu to the level of radical Marxist activists and militants.
How they liberate themselves from their cowed, wretched and oppressed
living conditions into which they have been subjugated, tortured and
beaten by men.
