Interpreting The Dogs of Babel through A Feminist Lens
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53469/jsshl.2023.06(06).12Keywords:
The Dogs of Babel, Feminism, The Female PredicamentAbstract
The opening chapter of The Dogs of Babel sets up the suspense of the death of the protagonist's wife, Lexy, who fell from an apple tree.It unfolds for the reader Paul's quest to discover the truth about his wife Lexy's death in the form of reminiscences by the main character, Paul.The only witness to Lexy's fall from the tree is a Rhodesian Ridgeback, which Paul the linguist hopes to make talk. In the course of his efforts, memories of Lexy converge gradually and the gap between husband and wife emerges progressively. The presence of a feminist element in the Dog of Babel cannot be ignored, and this paper attempts to explore some of the feminism and the female predicament shown by Lexy from a feminist perspective.
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