• Sruti Paul

Abstract: Women, to be better stereotyped as the Weaker Sex was subjugated and suppressed since time immemorial. She was restricted within the boundaries of house and was only entrusted with domestic chores. It is only a few decades that women began to step out of their confinements and proved that they are equal to their counterparts’ men, the Better Sex in all respects. Margaret Laurence’s Hagar Shipley is a strong willed woman who moved ahead of her times breaking the shackles set up by the society. As the title The Stone Angel indicates a paradoxical relationship between the two words, the protagonist Hagar Shipley did not fit herself into the stereotypes assigned for a woman. This paper undertakes a detailed analysis of the character Hagar Shipley who overtly subverted the norm that a woman should be taken care by father, husband and son in every stages of her life in the light of feminist reading.

Patriarchy, Stereotypes, Confinement, Subversion, Out spoken, Strong willed

"Subverting the Gender Stereotypes: A Feminist Analysis of Hagar Shipley in Maragaret Lawrence's The Stone Angel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.545-547, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812672.pdf

"Subverting the Gender Stereotypes: A Feminist Analysis of Hagar Shipley in Maragaret Lawrence's The Stone Angel", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp545-547, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812672.pdf