DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i11.005

Pages: 792-794

Modern novels with the issue of fornication deal with the reinforcement of dominant ideologies with feminist aspects of status quo. Modern novels, like Lewdness are easily defined, being based on sexual relation between two, at least one of them already got married, has long served as a public challenge to marriage. As a result, fornicated relation is considered a vicious and forbidden deed, whether of personal, social, or religious in nature. This paper shows how novels of fornicated relation have been theorized as the novels of bold relationship, not merely as the novels of fornication as the word determines social disobedience and offence. This paper would like to examine an emotional emptiness of the heroines which facilitates them embracing the fornicated relation with severe pain and challenges. Thus, it emphasises on its own theoretical perspective by presenting the heroines in select modern novels, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary [1], Émile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin [2], and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina [3] with a view to displaying traditional feminine behaviors and desires from their roots which are, consequently, their fate to self-immolation.