Representations of women in The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen
Keywords:
Arthur Machen, Femme fatale, Gothic, The Great God Pan,Abstract
This work aims to demonstrate the affiliation of the novella The Great God Pan, by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), to the gothic literature, emphasizing primordially the treatment given by the author to the female characters. The representations of women in this work refer to two distinct profiles of the Victorian woman: the submissive woman and the femme fatale. Interweaving elements such as paganism, occultism, and the supernatural, Machen creates a narrative in which the sense of fear and horror is constructed through a kind of game of exhibition and concealment, which has in the character Helen Vaughan the embodiment of evil, understood as a destabilizing force of the values of patriarchy.
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