Walk through the era

"French Leftinent's Women" by John Fowles walks us through three eras the Victorian, the modern and the post-modern. 

Today we will look at the post-modern features of the novel. We will begin with the parody which means a piece of writing that is similar to something else. John Fowles's parody of the Victorian society. In Victorian age, the characters of the novel were particularly shaped by the will of the author and during the modern period the author provided and absolute meaning to a work of art. In the post-modern times through this novel, John Fowles subvert the Victorian and Modern conventions by investing his characters with the freedom to make their own decisions, allowing for multiple endings.

This novel is intellectual which means a mixture of various genres in one text. This novel has a nineteenth century romance, with a modern and post modern ending given to be picturised by the readers.

This novel deals with fiction within a fiction. The socially conditioning of Victorian era is questioned in the post-modern section and Fowles narrows the borders by questioning various norms. He speaks openly about love, marriage and sexuality and contextualises in post modern times. He compares two different characters Earnestina and Sarah who are two extremes of each other, that is Earnestina being a Victorian woman and Sarah being a post-modern woman.

The author comes as an intruder and comments on the character providing his thoughts and disagreements through the psyche of the characters.