从女性主义视角解读《金色笔记》中的两性关系系_英语论文

A Feminist Approach to Gender Relations in The Golden Notebook

摘要

进入21世纪以来，伴随着2007年诺贝尔文学奖的揭晓，掀起了一场国内外对著名当代英国作家多丽丝·莱辛的作品《金色笔记》的研究热潮。《金色笔记》探讨了女性在现代生活中追求独立自由的过程及其在男权社会中遭遇的生存困境，审视了性别模式的不合理性并对两性关系进行了重新思考。女性主义一直以来就是英国文学的重要元素之一，本文研究的是从女性角度分析《金色笔记》中女性自身在男女关系中所产生的思考，感受和经历。本论文在研究吸收前人成果的基础上，利用书中具体人物情节解析女性在男权社会中的地位和男性对女性的态度，通过展示书中女性在追求自由过程中的困境与矛盾，探讨女性独立在两性关系中的重要性，指出两性之间只有通过和谐共处才能实现女性真正的自由。

关键词：《金色笔记》；两性关系；女性主义

Abstract

After entering the 21st century, the announcement of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature has attracted the attention at home and abroad to engage in doing research on the award-winning work, The Golden Notebook, created by the celebrated contemporary British writer Doris Lessing. The Golden Notebook traces the process of women’s pursuit of independence and freedom in modern life and the existential predicament faced by them in patriarchal society. It also conducts an inspection of the irrationality in the gender patterns and initiates a reflection on the gender relations. Since feminism has always been one of the most important elements of English literature, this paper takes a feminist perspective to analyze women’s thoughts, feelings and experiences in gender relations. Built on the predecessors’ conclusions, this paper enumerates characters and plots from the book to dissect the status of women and men’s attitudes towards women in the patriarchal society. By demonstrating the predicament and ambivalence in the process of freedom encountered by the women from the book，this paper probes into the importance of women’s independence in gender relations and points out that only based on harmonious coexistence between the genders can women’s real freedom be achieved.

Keywords：The Golden Notebook；gender relations；feminism

Contents

1 Introduction to The Golden Notebook 1

2 Literature Review 1

3 Doris Lessing and Her Feminism 3

3.1 Brief Introduction to Feminism 3

3.2 Introduction to Doris Lessing 4

3.3 Doris Lessing’s Feminism 4

4 Gender Troubles in the Patriarchal Society 5

4.1 Feminist Analysis of Patriarchal Society During the 1960s 5

4.2 Men’s Attitudes towards Women 6

4.3 Women’s Attachment to Men 7

5 Establishment of Harmonious Relationship between Men and Women 8

5.1 Precondition: Women’s Independent Existence 8

5.2 Mutual Support and Reciprocal Respect 9

Conclusion 11

References 13