Dr. Hossein Aliakbari Harehdasht, Zahra Nazemi & Leila Hajjari
Persian Gulf University of Bushehr, Iran
Louisa May Alcott’s novel, Little Women, written in America’s first-wave feminist period, has made the critics curious to investigate the status of women in facing patriarchy. Joe March as the most controversial character in the novel has specifically attracted the feminists. Similarly, the directors of the adapted films of the novel have been very interested in her personality and her feminist ideals. The present study, therefore, takes a comparative approach to study Joe’s character and her roles as a female figure in the two movie adaptations of the novel produced in 1933 and 1994. Her literary life, domestic roles and conducts with the male society will be taken into consideration. It is hoped that the results of the study will pave the way for the scholars to further the investigation into the world of the adaptations of her novels.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 2-3 February 2017, Ahwaz.
