A Comparative Study of A Doll’s House  and The Regret of the Past from the Feminist Perspective_英语论文

摘要

《玩偶之家》是十九世纪挪威著名戏剧家易卜生的代表作，《伤逝》是我国现代著名文学家鲁迅在“五四”时期的一篇颇具影响的爱情小说。两部产生于不同国度和历史背景下的小说，有着一脉相承的内容：女性主义。两者都为我们塑造了具有鲜明民主思想倾向，追求个性解放的妇女形象，都是借家庭夫妇之间的矛盾冲突来揭示社会矛盾，而前者反映了女性意识的初步觉醒，后者则表现了女性争得自由婚姻后，在经济上无自主权，仍然没有摆脱悲惨命运。本文将从对两位女主的对比，揭示出女性主义文学作品与社会文化等密不可分的联系。最后指出，女性只有获得经济独立，取得平等的社会地位才能真正掌握自己的命运，只有变革社会制度才能真正实现妇女解放。

关键词：女性主义；《玩偶之家》；《伤逝》；女性意识；经济独立

Abstract

"A Doll's House" is the representative work of Henrik Ibsen, a famous Norwegian dramatist in nineteenth Century.“The Regret of the Past”  is an influential love story written by Lu Xun, a famous Chinese contemporary writer in the time of the May 4th Movement. These two novels produced in different countries and historical backgrounds, but they have the same content: Feminist Criticism. Both of them shaped the image of women with distinctive democratic ideas and the pursuit of individual liberation ,and were based on the conflict between family and husband to reveal the social contradictions .The former reflects the initial awakening of women's consciousness, while the latter shows that after the free marriage, women have no autonomy in the economy, and they still don’t  get rid of the miserable fate. Though a comparative study, this article will reveal the inseparable relationship between feminist literary works and social culture. Finally, it is pointed out that only by gaining economic independence and equal social status, women can really grasp their own destiny.

Key words :Feminist Criticism; A Doll’s House；The Regret of the Past；female consciousness；economic independence

Contents

1 Introduction.1

1.1 Henrik Ibsen and A Doll’s House.1

1.2 Lu Xun and The Regret of the Past2

2 Demonstration.2

2.1 The similarities between Zijun and Nara.2

2.2 The differences between Nora and Zijun.3

2.2.1 The degree of personality independence3

2.2.2 The fate.4

2.3 The causes of the differences5

2.3.1 The society.5

2.3.1.1 The feminist criticism in western countries.5

2.3.1.2 The feminist criticism in China6

2.3.2 The cultural tradition.6

2.3.3 The writers’ attitudes to women7

3 Conclusion.7

Bibliography.9