《献给爱米莉的玫瑰》中艾米丽悲剧的女性主义分析_英语论文

A Wilted Rose-Analysis of Emily’s Tragedy in A Rose for Emily by Faulkner from the Feminist Perspective

摘要

威廉·福克纳是美国南方文学的代表作家。《献给爱米莉的玫瑰》被认为是他最负盛名的短篇小说。小说以美国战后南方社会变迁为背景，讲述的是美国南方贵族女子爱米丽格里尔生小姐在父亲死后爱上了来自北方的工头荷默·伯隆，然后由爱生恨毒杀伯隆的故事。

小说的女主人公艾米丽在很大程度上并不是为了自己而存在，她是旧南方的纪念碑，是旧南方淑女的典范。艾米丽虽然身为贵族后裔，具有极高的社会地位，但艾米丽作为一名南方传统女性，仍需要饱受来自父权体制、旧南方社会传统、贵族文化以及清教主义妇道观等的摧残，最后在离群索居中度过了自己悲惨的一生。本文从女性主义角度分析艾米丽小姐人性扭曲、心理畸变的悲剧根源，从而揭示出美国旧南方的社会和历史对女性的造成的伤害, 进一步深化对女性问题的认识。

关键词：福克纳；《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》；父权制；女性主义

Abstract

William Faulkner was the representative writer of American southern literature. A Rose for Emily was considered of his most famous short story. The novel took American’s southern social change after the Civil War as the background. It told us that American southern noble woman, Miss Emily, fell in love with foreman Homer Barron who came from the north after her father died and finally she killed her lover Homer. 

The novel’s heroine Emily, to large extent, did not live for herself. She was regarded as the monument of the old south, and also as a lady’s model of the old south. Emily was aristocratic descent, enjoying prominent social status, but she as a typical southern woman, enduring a lot stress from patriarchy, the southern old traditions, noble culture and puritanism womanhood and so on. Eventually, she had been a loner all her life. This paper will analyze Emily’s tragedy from the feminist perspective, and aims to reveal the American old historic and the social harm to women, and make the society has a deepen reorganization of female’s issues.

Keywords: Faulkner; A Rose for Emily; Patriarchy; Feminism