description
In narrative prose by authors from the second half of the nineteenth century, females can generally be categorised according to their character, function and appearance, into four basic types: the type of a mother, a daughter, a wife or an unwedded partner, and the type of an aunt, a friend, a distant relative, or an unknown woman. For a more accurate and complex presentation offemale characters they can be further categorized into various sub-types. Within this typology a woman appears as a two-fold person: on the one hand, the image of a typically unselfish, good, obedient and humble woman, and, on the other hand, an image of a completely different, stubborn, dominant, materialistic, egotistical, and even physically violent woman, by which the author rejects the general, exclusively stereotypical image of the literary female character of the past.