Angela Carter's Exposition of Farce, Bizarre, and Mighty Attributes of Women in The Passion of New Eve

Abstract

The Passion of New Eve is clustered with certain textual instances where readers are startled, the way Carter has portrayed a revolutionary and distinct feministic ideology. Carter has toppled the existed feministic ideologies. Rest of the novel surrounds her stance of presenting women as queer and farce and bizarre creature. Beginning with the initial details of the novel, the first woman introduced in the novel is Tristessa, a screen goddess, whose suffering and sadistic scenes arouse sexual instinct in Evelyn. As a protagonist, Evelyn is portrayed as an exploiter in the beginning and exploited object towards the further progression of this novel. This voyage takes Evelyn from subjective to objective status. The author mocks the very existence of male gender throughout the novel. In the light of theories of post modernism and feminism, the present study found that Carter has adopted a new shift of feminism while presenting the details of different sections of this novel. Carter celebrates a new identity of women, capable of launching equal force of dominant matriarchal stance over patriarchal regime. Carter deconstructs the male identity and shatters the iconic male supremacy by representing the character of ‘Mother’. The transfiguration of Evelyn and his further programming as female is one of the basic agendas of the present study.