From Brontë to Ishiguro: The Dystopian Evolution of the Boarding School Motif
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| Publicado en: | Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies vol. 16, no. 1 (2025), p. 45-55 |
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Universiteatea "Aurel Vlaicu" Arad Editura / Publishing House
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| Resumen: | The first notable example is Charlotte Bronté's renowned novel Jane Eyre, in which the protagonist, Jane, is sent to a private school called Lowood Institution to escape her unloving aunt, Mrs. Reed. In this story, Burnett takes the reader from "a beautiful Indian bungalow" to the seemingly respectable environment of a London private school populated by "а set of dull, matter-of-fact young people" who are "accustomed to being rich and comfortable" (Burnett, 2009: 101). Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power-particularly the mechanism of control and normalization-provides a framework for understanding how Hailsham operates as a mechanism of power. [...]to its predecessors, where boarding schools serve as harsh testing grounds for fortitude and perseverance, molding protagonists into morally upright citizens, Hailsham functions as a disciplinary apparatus designed to create a human-like environment for clones, conditioning them to accept their inevitable fate as organ donors. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-6557 2247-2371 |
| DOI: | 10.56177/jhss.1.16.2025.art.3 |
| Fuente: | Publicly Available Content Database |