伍尔夫在《达洛维夫人》中的女权主义_英语论文

Woolf’s Feminism in Mrs. Dalloway

摘要

弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙是忠诚的女权主义卫士,作为一名有着女性自觉意识的现代作家,弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女权主义主张无疑会渗透其文学创作。她借助文学创作来思考女性问题和女性面临的困境;书写男权制社会对女性的压制和束缚;呼唤女性冲破羁绊,争取物质与精神的独立与解放。《达洛维夫人》是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫最具有女性意识的代表作之一。弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫运用意识流的创作手法将女性意识完美地体现在小说的写作中。小说通过主人公达洛维夫人在筹办一次上流社会派对的一天生活来描写她的一生,表达了渴望建立男女平等、和谐相处的女性意识,唤醒世人对女性社会地位的重新思考。本文将通过《达洛维夫人》这部作品，分析伍尔芙女性思想的形成因素，运用女性主义批评理论，探析女主人公的生活模式与心理状态，从自然、战争、男性、社会以及婚姻观的角度来探讨女主人公的女性主义思想。此外，本文还将归纳伍尔芙女性主义的创作方式，分析作家女性主义思想的现代性价值与意义。

关键词：《达洛维夫人》；伍尔芙；女性主义思想

Abstract

Virginia Woolf is a loyal guard of feminism. As a modern writer with feminism self-awareness, Virginia Woolf would infiltrate her literary creation with feminism opinions with no doubt. She reflected feminine aspect and difficulties women confronted through her literary works, wrote about the pressure and bound of patriarchal society to the women and called women to break through the fetter and to strive for material and spiritual independence and liberation. Mrs. Dalloway was one of the most typical masterpieces of feminism consciousness of Virginia Woolf, who presented feminism consciousness perfectly in her writing through stream of consciousness. In the novel, it describes the entire life of the main character Mrs. Dalloway through the day when she hosts an upper class party, to express the feminism consciousness of establishing equality and harmony between men and women, and to awaken peoples’ reconsideration of women’s social status. Based on Mrs. Dalloway, this paper analyzes the formation of Woolf’s feminism, studies on the life mode and psychological state of the heroine with feminism critics theory, and discusses the feminism of the heroine from the perspectives of nature, war, male, society and marriage. In addition, this thesis also concludes the creation method of Woolf’s feminism and analyzes modern value and meaning of writer’s feminism.

Key words: Mrs. Dalloway; Woolf; feminism

Contents

Acknowledgements i

Abstract & Key words in English ii

Abstract & Key words in Chinese iii

Introduction 1

1. The formation of Woolf’s feminism 2

1.1 Imperceptible influence of family environment 2

1.2 Strong agitation of feminism 3

1.3 The deep influence by The Bloomsbury Group 3

2. The embodiment of Woolf’s feminism in Mrs. Dalloway 5

2.1 Nature and female 5

2.2 War and female 6

2.3 Male and female 7

2.4 Society and female 8

2.5 Distinctive views on marriage 9

3. The creative methods of Woolf’s feminism in Mrs. Dalloway 11

3.1 The stream of consciousness 11

3.2 Characterization of characters 12

3.3 Revelation of deep meaning 13

4. Modern value of Woolf’s feminism 14

4.1 Breaking the writing patterns of sexism 14

4.2 Setting up the basic frame of feminist poetics 15

Conclusion 16

References 18