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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2002 38(1):14-23; doi:10.1093/fmls/38.1.14
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Feminine Justice and Morality in Giraudoux's Électre and Yourcenar's Électre ou la Chute des Masques

Victoria B. Korzeniowska1

1 Department of Linguistic and International Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK

This article examines the differing conceptions of justice and morality in Giraudoux's and Yourcenar's versions of the Electra myth. Both plays present justice as a gendered phenomenon, subject to interpretations which shift according to gender and circumstance. I focus, in particular, on the dramatists' association of the heroine with the word 'justice' and analyse the extent to which Giraudoux and Yourcenar subvert this traditional association, presenting 'justice' as a politically correct term behind which both sexes hide dubious personal motivations.


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