CONFRONTING THE OTHER IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S “THE AGE OF DISCRETION”
CONFRONTING THE OTHER IN SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR’S “THE AGE OF DISCRETION”
Author(s): Alexandra Roxana MĂRGINEANSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: old age; identity; other
Summary/Abstract: The analysis of “The Age of Discretion” by Simone de Beauvoir inevitably brings along the subject of age and aging. We start from a glimpse at the protagonist, a professor having reached the last decades of her life, at her thoughts and feelings in a moment when she acknowledges, besides her condition of an elderly person, now made official, the multiple crises she is experiencing on all the planes of her existence. Hence, the estrangement that ensues occasions the mechanism of othering that she applies indiscriminately to individuals, situations, statuses and even her own person. Our scrutiny is also into potential solutions and/or answers available to the narrator, trying to ascertain whether the character is able to find or make peace with herself, the others and destiny in the end.
Journal: LIMBA ȘI LITERATURA – REPERE IDENTITARE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 234-240
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English