《德伯家的苔丝》和《嘉利妹妹》女主角不同命运的对比分析_英语论文

An analysis of the Causes of the Different    Fates of Heroines in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Sister Carrie

摘要

《德伯家的苔丝》是十九世纪末英国作家托马斯 哈代最具有代表性的作品，《嘉莉妹妹》是二十世纪初美国作家西奥多 徳莱赛的第一部作品。苔丝和嘉利，作为两部作品的女主角，均被视为是世界文学史上最经典的女性人物。她们拥有相同的生活背景，同样来自农村，作者描述了她们悲惨的生活，都是被男性所掌控。虽然两部作品的作家来自不同的国家，不同的国度，但是它们都是以资本主义时期女性不平等的地位和命运为主题, 揭露了资本主义社会的罪恶。

本文旨在从女性主义视角分析苔丝和嘉利妹妹不同的命运。试图通过她们不用的家庭背景，人物性格特征，爱情观和作者的意识形态等方面进行分析。最终得出一个结论，作为女性应该树立一个正确的人生观和价值观，不应该盲目追求物质财富而忽略了精神财富，缺少它们中的任何一个，人生都是不完整的.与此同时，女性应该将自己放在一个正确的位置上，在社交活动中学习如何独立，而不是过分依赖男性。

关键词：原因；苔丝；嘉利；不同命运

Abstract

Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a representative masterpiece written by British writer Thomas hardy in the late 19th century, and Sister Carrie was a first novel written by American writer Theodore Dreiser in the 20th century. Tess and Carrie, as the heroines in these two novels, were regarded as the immortal image of women in the history of world literature. They had the same living background, and both came from rural areas. The authors described the miserable lives of them which were dominated by men. Although these two novels were written by two writers from two different countries, they expressed the same theme of unequal women status and miserable fates in the period of capitalism, and exposed the evils of capitalism society. 

This paper aims to analyze the causes of Tess and Carrie’s different fates from the feminist perspective. It tries to compare them from the aspects of their different family backgrounds, personalities, views of love, and the author’s ideologies. Finally, the paper comes to draw a conclusion that women should set up a correct outlook on life and values, should not blindly pursue material wealth and ignore the spiritual wealth, because without any of them, life is not complete. Meanwhile, women should put themselves in the right position, trying to learn to be independent in the community, and should never be too dependent on men.

Key words: causes; Tess; Carrie; different fates

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Literature review 2

2.1 The authors and the two works 2

2.1.1 Thomas Hardy and Tess of the D’Urbervilles 2

2.1.2 Theodore Dreiser and Sister Carrie 3

2.2 A brief introduction of Feminism 5

3 Similarities and Differences between Tess and Carrie 6

3.1 Similarities of Tess and Carrie 6

3.1.1 The incarnation of kindness and purity 6

3.1.2 The Spirit of independence 7

3.2The Differences between Tess and Carrie 9

3.2.1 Different attitudes towards life 9

3.2.2 Different endings 10

4 Causes of Different fates for Tess and Carrie 11

4.1 Different social backgrounds 11

4.2 Different views of love 12

4.3Different characteristics of Tess and Carrie 13

4.4 The authors’ Different ideologies 14

5 Conclusion 15

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