期刊名称：Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
电子版ISSN：1948-5778
出版年度：2018
卷号：42
页码：94-101
语种：English
出版社：International Institute for Science, Technology Education
摘要：Constrained for submissiveness, Victorian women were supposed to be silent and not to express their opinions, except on command. The Piano (1993), written and directed by Jane Campion, is set in the mid-nineteenth century, describing a mute Scottish woman (Ada McGrath), who uses silence to claim her voice and self-assertion. If in the patriarchal Victorian society, women and wives are supposed to be submissive, obedient, and silent, Ada chooses to subversively follow the norm to the extreme: by stopping speaking forever. Ironically, while voice acts as empowerment and subjectivity, Ada’s silence lets her escape the patriarchal oppression and gain some power and freedom to reach her subjectivity.
