Women and Violence: A Study of Selected Female Gothic Fiction Texts

Violence is a notable threat against women because it has an impact in maintaining or disregarding their subjectivity and role in society. So far women have suffered from different kinds of violence; therefore women’s writers like Atwood and Carter try to express and critique such violence in Female Gothic Fiction. Yet Feminists provide theories and critical devices to unfold women’s experiences with violence and their resistance to it in fiction showing the effect of such experiences on them their subjectivity and roles in society.