《到灯塔去》中完美女人的感性与理性_英语论文

The sense and sensibility of a perfect woman in To the Lighthouse

摘要

弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙是二十世纪杰出的英国女作家，以其意识流文学作品和鲜明的女性主义而著名。伍尔芙的代表作品《到灯塔去》在文学界不论是其象征艺术，女性主义思想还是人物形象都受到了广泛的关注和研究。本论文将从书中女性人物形象分析，来探讨一个完美女人应具有的感性与理性。

本文将通过回归原著的人物形象分析，结合存在主义女性主义中所谓的女性“内在性”的超越和企图摆脱“他者”和“他性”的超越，借助大量文献资料对比拉姆齐夫人和莉利的角色，探讨弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙心中完美女人感性与理性的结合。论文认为，一个完美的女人应当有的感性占百分之四十五，理性占百分之五十五，只有这样一个具有比较严密的逻辑性和善解人意的感性的女性是趋近于完美的。本研究旨在对女权运动和女性的社会地位提高问题提供帮助。

关键词: 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙  《到灯塔去》感性 理性 存在主义 女性主义 

Abstract

Virginia Woolf, an English writer of the twentieth century, is famous for her writing technique of stream of consciousness and brilliant feminism of her famous works. To the Lighthouse, one of her representative works, gets the literary society’ s best concern and study in several fields, such as symbolism art, feminism theme, and figure analysis. This paper will give a study of the sense and sensibility of a perfect woman through a specific comparison between the two main female figures in the book.

 The thesis will be given on the basis of the original book and characters’ features, and it will employ the theory of Existential Feminism in which women should surpass their “internal quality” and try to get rid of the transgression of the “other” and “he”, combined with a large amount of document literature to compare Mrs. Ramsay and Lily, as a result, the sense and sensibility of a perfect woman in Virginia Woolf’ s heart can be drawn on the paper. This thesis holds that a perfect woman should have 45 percent of sense and 55 percent of sensibility. Only a woman with strong logic mind and considerate sense tends to be perfect. This thesis is aimed at giving more evidence to support feminist movement and improvement of women’ s social position.

Keywords: Virginia Woolf  To the Lighthouse  sense  sensibility  Existential Feminism               

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse 1

1.2 Literature Review 2

1.3. Thesis Structure 4

2   The comparison between two female figures 5

2.1 Mrs Ramsay 5

2.2 Lily 5

2.3 The ideal female character in Virginia Woolf' s heart 6

3   The importance of suitable sense and sensibility of a woman 7

3.1 Feminist Existentialism 7

3.2 theory support for woman's change 8

4 The specific quality of a perfect woman 8

4.1 The result of research 9

4.2 The realistic problem 9

Conclusion 10

Acknowledgements 12

References 13