Images of Women and Plot Structure in the First Four Novels of Fikremarkos Desta
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The thesis investigates two interrelated literary elements, the images of
women and the plot structure in the first four novels of Fikremarkos Desta.
The thesis has three chapters. The first chapter is the review of literature.
The second chapter presents the images of women characters in the novels. It
presents two types of women characters. The first type of these wo~en
characters are portrayed as victims of their -respective cultures. They are denied
enjoyment, free movement and property right. The second type of women
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characters are characters portrayed as "strong I liberated" ones. -T-hbse
characters are depicted as thoughtful, imaginative and assertive. They are also
free to love and enjoy sex and they are not submissive and dependent on men.
The third chapter deals with the plot structure in the novels. The study
reveals the structural arrangement of the stories. And each structural part
contains part of the story that a typical story contains. The structural patterns in
the trilogies are almost identical. The structural pattern in Achame presents a
history of a family from a grand father to a grandson in a chronological order.
Filled questionnaires about the author and about Hamar are also appended.
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plot structure