The blithedale romance

The Wo macrocosm Named Zenobia         In Hawthornes story The Blithedale Romance, we be introduced to the character Zenobia. Zenobia is a wealthy cleaning fair sex who considers herself to be a womens rightist. She is always prophesy her view of the womans role in confederation. She is a woman who feels and speaks very passionately most the feminists emerge in the world. This altogether seems to transform as soon as Zenobia falls in shaft with Hollingsworth. After Zenobia begins spending much and more time with this man we start to see her position as a effective and independent woman disappear more and more. Zenobia starts to fall goat Hollingsworth, he begins to control this feminist, and soon scour all her opinions about feminism are nonhing. Zenobia becomes, in this story the woman that she has been stressful to do past with; she takes on the role of the woman tin the man.

The trouble started in Zenobias life when Priscilla is sent to Blithedale to live with her. Priscilla excessively falls in love with Hollingsworth. This is where the reader starts to see Zenobias feminist point of view start to (Vaillette, 2) diminish. Zenobia in this book is pickaxe a man over her sister, the first no-no in feminism. Zenobia is brute(a) to Priscilla. She tries to embarrass her so that she will look good in Hollinsworths eyes. She nonwithstanding turns Priscilla over to Westervelt, whom Moody was trying to keep Priscilla away from in the first place. Zenobia does all of this unless so Hollingsworth will love her.

        The reader begins to see the fall of Zenobias feministic character more from the way she is with Hollingsworth. Hawthorne uses irony to portray Zenobias character. The way she portrays herself in society and the way she acts toward Hollingsworth are the most ironic characteristics. In the humanity society, she portrays herself as an independent feminist. She comes across to the reader, at first, as a bit proud maybe change surface snobby. She seems to act same(p) she is equal to if not better than any man, and at times she acts better than any person. She takes pride in creation a woman and is very vocal on her opinion that women are equal with men.

        As the story continues and we see Zenobia with Hollingsworth, we see that she is not so independent anymore. She is starting to become little and less her ingest (Vaillette, 3) person and instanter is becoming the woman tin can Hollingsworth. For example, in the chapter Eliots Pulpit, were Coverdale is saying that he wouldnt mind being control by a woman. Hollingsworth disagrees with him here. Hollingsworth says, Her place is at mans side……… totally the separate action of woman is, and ever has been, and always shall be, false, foolish, vain, wasteful of her sustain best and holiest qualities………The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stay beyond it(Hawthorne, 101-02). After much(prenominal) a statement the reader would expect Zenobia to jump up with outrage and speak back at Hollingsworth with her feministic views, that she does not.

Zenobia responds, let man be but manly and godlike, and woman is still too ready to become to him what you say (Hawthorne, 102)! Here she is essentially telling Hollingsworth that he is an exceptional man and that she would be his slave, even though she was so vocal before about not being any mans slave. Its ironic that she will preach unmatchable thing, but surrender her views for the love of a man. She obviously is not true in what she says about feminism. Zenobia could not possibly weigh what she is (Vaillette, 4) preaching about women being equal to men if she is not living it herself.

Zenobia continues on this way, living for Hollingsworth. Everything she does is for him. Zenobia is supposed to inherit her uncles fortune, but when she does she intends on giving it all to Hollingsworth because she loves him so much. Although she finds out at the Masquerade that all along she has been used by Hollingsworth. She was wherefore his servant; she was indeed the woman behind the man. When Hollingsworth tells Zenobia that he is in love with Priscilla, Zenobia realizes that she had been used for her money. She had turned her back on everything she believed in and everything she stood for to be with Hollingsworth. She was living proof of a woman controlled by man.

At this point Zenobia turns on Hollingsworth: You have embodied yourself in a project. You are a better masquerader then the witches and gipsies yonder: for your disguise is a self-deception………Then, because Coverdale could not be quite your slave, you threw him ruthlessly away. And you took me into your plan as long as there was (Vaillette, 5) hope of my being available, and now fling me deflexion again, a broken too! (Hawthorne, 179). This is where Zenobia realizes what was happening all along, that she was Hollingsworths slave, and she was being used. She is no feminist. A feminist doesnt preach equality for woman and then live a life as the woman behind the man. She starts to see that her life is all out of place and she cant seem to fix it.

        The reader also sees some more irony here. Zenobia was victimisation Priscilla and treating her badly all along just to make herself look and feel better. Now we see that Hollingsworth was using Zenobia all along and she just got a taste of her own medicine. This whole time Zenobia has been trying to beat Priscilla, and Priscilla won. Now Zenobia is get to realize how Priscilla must have felt.

        The reader has seen Zenobias character go from a strong independent woman, to the woman behind the man, and now to the woman who is all alone and a stranger even to herself. She abandoned all of her views, her opinions, and her life just for love. Now not only has she lost herself, she has lost love. This broken woman becomes (Vaillette, 6) even weaker to the audience when the reader discovers that she has killed herself. Zenobia obviously was a very manifold woman so that it had to come to that point. I, the reader, feel that there is something to be learned from Zenobias story. A woman should never give up everything just for a man because in the end all we give up or lose is ourselves.

Work Cited 1) Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance. capital of the United Kingdom: Orion Publishing Group, 1964

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