《了不起的盖茨比》中的女性主义_英语论文

A Feminist Reading of The Great Gatsby

摘要

20世纪初,一群美国小说家被称为“迷惘的一代”。这些作家参加过第一次世界大战，他们看到了战争的残酷，体会到战争给人们带来的伤痛，这些经历使他们对理想感到失望。而当时的美国纸醉金迷，美国小说家弗・司格特・菲茨杰拉德曾形容它为爵士时代，并把这个沉迷于欢乐的时代描绘为美丽与毁灭。他的作品《了不起的盖茨比》也是描绘美国梦破灭的一部作品，在小说中刻画了一位金钱至上，爱慕虚荣的女主角黛西。长期以来，黛西被解读为自私自利、薄情寡义的女性。本文从女性主义角度出发，结合小说时代文化背景探究黛西的人物形象，指出她是男权社会的牺牲品，分析和阐释这位女性人物在特定时期和特定文化背景下为爱情所作出努力的失败和选择的无奈。

关键字:女性主义 无助 独立

Abstract

At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a group of the American novelists, they were called the Lost writers have participated in the First World War, they saw the cruelty of war, and realize the war brings the pain, these experiences let them feel disappointed at that time, a lot of Americans indulged in living a luxury and dissipation life, the American novelist Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald described it as the Jazz Age, and he portrayed the Jazz Age as a generation of “the beautiful and the damned” as the people of the age addicted to the joy. His work The Great Gatsby is also one of works that depict the disillusionment of American dream. In this novel he portrays a heroine Daisy who thinks money is king, and loves vanity, for a long time, Daisy is considered as selfishness, fickle betrayal by many people. This article will explore the characteristics of the victim under such a patriarchal society from the perspective of feminism, and combined with its particular cultural background to analysis and interpret the female character’s failed efforts to her love and helpless choice. 

Key words: feminism helplessness independence