Isabel’s Tragic Marriage in The Portrait of A Lady

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10.2991/assehr.k.210609.015How to use a DOI?

Keywords

character conflicts, double-folded characters, marital tragedy, quest

Abstract

In The Portrait of A lady Henry James presents the character conflicts in three levels: the double-folded characters of the heroine Isabel Archer, her idea of ideal marriage and the cultural conflicts between Europe and America to provide the reasonableness and necessity for her marital tragedy. He highly praises Isabel for her strong belief in and persistent quest for her ideal and shows how difficult this quest is in the real world.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Lei Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Isabel’s Tragic Marriage in The Portrait of A Lady
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 77
EP  - 81
SN  - 2352-5398
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