Article: "Morpho Eugenia": Problems with the Male Gaze.(Critical Essay)

In "Morpho Eugenia," the first novella of Angels and Insects, A. S. Byatt unravels the man-is-hero story by telling the story from a male protagonist's point of view. Byatt does this to illustrate the corrupted power he wields from his narrative vantage point of "the male gaze." William Adamson views the world as if he were subject, and all others are objects, gazed upon by him, observed by him. He represents the other characters through a masculine, unitary gaze, centering himself in the story while trying to create closure and unity all around him. Adamson not only sees everything in a binary opposition of white against black, beautiful against ugly; he names and labels ...

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