In an open and competitive world, the instinct for identity survival pushes community groups to anchor. In this pesrpective, our project is to flaunt, by examiniting some French-language novelistic texts, that the modeling of the personality of the female character is a priority in many cases. Rooted in the values of the group consists in inviting young people to strictly observe social directives, noting that any attempt at rebellion will lead to a loss. However, the influence of many outdoor factors, combined to the illusions of fashion, brings the characters to split the walls of the social conformism of their living universe. In fact, the Western school and the modern city bear the seeds of insubmission if we stick to the behavior of the young female characters studied in this paper. The logic of a dichotomous vision is established between young and old people, between the countryside and the city, between a so-called traditional value system and a libertarian tendency. A contrastive analysis of the texts of the corpus allows us to notice that at the arrival, the trail of the protagonists is very tumultuous and that the result is incertain: if some can claim a well-being following a courageous personal decision, others will see their dreams dull, fly away or sink like drops of water on the feathers of a duck.
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Hamidou Balde. (2022). The Education of the Female Fictional Character, Between a Helpless Anchoring and a Perilous Quest for Self: Crossed Views on Some French-Speaking African Stories. International Journal of Literature and Arts, 10(4), 215-219. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.14
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Hamidou Balde. The Education of the Female Fictional Character, Between a Helpless Anchoring and a Perilous Quest for Self: Crossed Views on Some French-Speaking African Stories. Int. J. Lit. Arts 2022, 10(4), 215-219. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20221004.14
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abstract = {In an open and competitive world, the instinct for identity survival pushes community groups to anchor. In this pesrpective, our project is to flaunt, by examiniting some French-language novelistic texts, that the modeling of the personality of the female character is a priority in many cases. Rooted in the values of the group consists in inviting young people to strictly observe social directives, noting that any attempt at rebellion will lead to a loss. However, the influence of many outdoor factors, combined to the illusions of fashion, brings the characters to split the walls of the social conformism of their living universe. In fact, the Western school and the modern city bear the seeds of insubmission if we stick to the behavior of the young female characters studied in this paper. The logic of a dichotomous vision is established between young and old people, between the countryside and the city, between a so-called traditional value system and a libertarian tendency. A contrastive analysis of the texts of the corpus allows us to notice that at the arrival, the trail of the protagonists is very tumultuous and that the result is incertain: if some can claim a well-being following a courageous personal decision, others will see their dreams dull, fly away or sink like drops of water on the feathers of a duck.},
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