Emancipation of the Spirit

John Fowles clarifies an authentic classic as one involving ¡°the freedom that allows other freedoms exist.¡± (The French Lieutenant's Woman, 13) In conformity to his own standards, John Fowles creates The French Lieutenant's Woman ---a game out of all his own imagination. He immerses the readers in the emotionally charged world of a Victorian love triangle through a startling means of literary expression---emancipation of the author, the characters, and consequently the readers.
¡°The novelist is still a god, but in the new theological image, with freedom our first principle, not authority.¡±(The French Lieutenant's Woman, 13) In Fowles¡¯ quest for his first principle, The French Lieutenant's Woman casts off the yoke of a Victorian novelist¡¯s all-knowingness, and strikes a disharmonious chord in the traditional novels. He dethrones the omnificent god inside of his literary world, and becomes a free wanderer, waving to and fro.
The French Lieutenant's Woman is set larg...