Viziunea sexuală şi construirea identităţii în romanul ‘Departe de lumea dezlănţuită’
Scrutinized by the Male Gaze: the Construction of Identity in Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’

Summary/Abstract: Laura Mulvey’s essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975) deals with the objectifying power of the male gaze or scopophilia, the pleasure derived from viewing another in a sexual way. This paper applies this concept to Thomas Hardy’s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd” (1874). Throughout the novel, Bathsheba Everdene is exposed to the penetrative male gaze, as she is strongly imbued with the “to-be-looked-at-ness” effect.

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