THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WOMAN’S FIGURE IN THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL “IF I WERE A BOY” OF HAKI STERMILLI
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18848/2x9mwp94Keywords:
sentimentalist style, religious aspect, the figure of the woman, social norms, patriarchal society, religionAbstract
In this study paper, we will survey: "The religious aspect in the novel "If I were a boy" by Haki Stërmillit, and the main objective will be the observation and analysis of the woman’s figure in the literature of this author, which is a literature with a sentimentalist style.
The sentimental Albanian prose of this author, with themes and scenes of Albanian life, has played an important role in the History of Albanian Literature and the fact that this topic has not been studied earlier is something special. This paper presents the key role that religion has in the characterization of the characters, in the psychological breakdown, but also in their fate. The analysis of the text of the above-mentioned author will be the main method of the work.
The purpose of the research is to see the author's intention to bring closer to the reader's optics, the most prominent religious characteristic segments of the sentimentalist prose, different moments and characters of life and time. We will do all this thanks to the help of literature, scientific research and materials that refer to this prose, using the comparative research, historical and empirical method as a scientific research methodology.
