Maria Luisa Bombal’s vision and solution for the masculine and feminine conflict in her novel
Advisors: Dr. Donaldo Urioste y Dra. María Zielina
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the influence that foreign movements like surrealism, escapism and particularly the feminist movement had on the short story The House of Mist (1935 ), written by Maria Luisa Bombal. These movements helped strengthen some of her feminine ideology that can be found throughout the story, as these traits take a direction with an equalizing purpose between males and females in a patriarchal society. Due to limitations imposed by the patriarchal society of the time, one of the techniques used to evade the real world comes through escapism and surrealism. In her story protagonist, whose name is unknown, breaks with the restrictions imposed by that society against women, which may be characteristic features found in feminist literature. In her effort to break the restrictions, the use of escapism through nature and her approach to the illusion of a platonic love allow the protagonist a tangible method for escaping from reality. Through intensive research and various literary and artistic methods I will try to analyze the short story The House of Mist in this Capstone project.
The purpose of this essay is to discuss the influence that foreign movements like surrealism, escapism and particularly the feminist movement had on the short story The House of Mist (1935 ), written by Maria Luisa Bombal. These movements helped strengthen some of her feminine ideology that can be found throughout the story, as these traits take a direction with an equalizing purpose between males and females in a patriarchal society. Due to limitations imposed by the patriarchal society of the time, one of the techniques used to evade the real world comes through escapism and surrealism. In her story protagonist, whose name is unknown, breaks with the restrictions imposed by that society against women, which may be characteristic features found in feminist literature. In her effort to break the restrictions, the use of escapism through nature and her approach to the illusion of a platonic love allow the protagonist a tangible method for escaping from reality. Through intensive research and various literary and artistic methods I will try to analyze the short story The House of Mist in this Capstone project.