In my thesis, I compare six literary figures (Snow white, Sleeping beauty, Jackie Kennedy, Sylvia Plath, Ingeborg Bachmann and Erika Kohut) from the play Princess Dramas: Death and the Maiden and the novel The piano teacher by Elfriede Jelinek. All protagonists live in dysfuncitional relashionships that affect their perception of sexuality and violence. Through the indiscriminate and subordinate characters of women, the author demistifies gender equality in modern democratic society. Women are incapable of gaining independence and withdrawing from the previously prescribed roles of patriarchy.
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