Hotel Du Lac taki sürgün ruhlar ve kayıp kimlikler

Abstract

In every age, women are intruded on by patriarchal society which breaks intotheir lives and their bodies, and so commodifies them, to be used and abused by thepatriarchs as tools of the ideological male point of view. In Hotel du Lac, theprotagonist Edith Hope, writer of romantic fiction under the pseudonym Vanessa Wilde,is sent to Hotel du Lac for rehabilitation since she reacts against the voices ofpatriarchal ideology. This study, establishing a connection between the setting and theatmosphere of the novel with that of detective fiction, will analyse Edith s desire to be incontrol of her own life while ignoring patriarchal societal norms. The theory of thealienation of meaning in the detective story will be analysed in terms of the protagonistEdith Hope s alienation both from herself and her society in which she is seen as athreat, either as a detective or a victim, who is awakened to the restoration ofdisembodied signs in the setting ofHotel du Lac.