《远离尘嚣》的生态女性主义解读_英语论文

An Eco-feminist Reading of Far from the Madding Crowd

摘要

托马斯·哈代（1837-1901) 是英国维多利亚时期一位著名的作家和诗人。1874年《远离尘嚣》的奠定了哈代以后文学事业发展的基础。小说主要讲述了一个女子和三个男人之间的爱情纠葛。年轻美貌的芭丝谢芭继承了她叔叔的农场。奥克对她一见钟情，但他的表白遭到了拒绝。与此同时，农场主伯德伍德也疯狂地爱着芭丝谢芭。就当众人都认为他们会在一起的时候，芭丝谢芭和年轻英俊的中士特洛伊结婚了。但他们的婚后生活并不幸福，一系列的事件后，芭丝谢芭失去了丈夫和农场。故事以奥克回到女主人公身边结局。

哈代非常同情那些生活在男性统治社会里的女性，女性是他不断创作的灵感。同时，哈代也擅长对大自然的描绘，自然反映着女性的情感变化和生存状态。他笔下的自然和女性是密不可分的整体，同处于父权制社会的边缘。他的小说蕴含了强烈的生态女性意识，呼吁对自然和女性的尊重以及平等、和谐社会的建立。

本论文主要运用生态女性主义理论解读《远离尘嚣》。通过分析女主人公芭丝谢芭在父权社会中独立性格以及她对于爱情和婚姻所表现出的捍卫姿态，本文试图阐述女性和自然的独特关系以及当时社会背景下女性悲剧的根源，旨在引起人们对于女性和自然的双重关注，从而建立一个男女平等、人与自然和谐相处的社会。

关键词: 托马斯·哈代；《远离尘嚣》；生态女性主义

Abstract

Thomas Hardy (1837-1901) is a famous British writer and poet of Victorian time. In 1874, Far from the Madding Crowd was published which laid the foundation of Hardy’s literary career development. This book tells a love story between a woman and three men. Beautiful young Bathsheba inherits her uncle's farm. Oak falls in love with her at first sight, but he is rejected by Bathsheba. At the same time, the farmer Boldwood is also in love with Bathsheba. When everyone believes that they will be together, Bathsheba gets married with a handsome young sergeant Troy. But their married life is not happy. After a series of events, Bathsheba loses her husband and farms. Oak returns to the heroine and the story ends.

Hardy is very sympathetic to women who live in the male-dominated society, and women are his inspiration for writing. Meanwhile, Hardy is also good at describing nature which reflects women's emotional changes and living conditions. He describes nature and women as an integral whole, which are at the edge of the patriarchal society. Hardy’s novels contain a strong ecological consciousness, calling on the respect for nature and women as well as the establishment of an equal and harmonious society.

This paper will read Far from the Madding Crowd in the light of ecological feminism. By analyzing the independence of the heroine Bathsheba and her attitude towards love and marriage in the patriarchal society, this paper tries to expound the special relationship between women and nature and the root of women’s tragedy at that time. The purpose of the paper is to arouse people’s attention to both women and nature in order to establish a society in which men and women have the same social status and human and nature can exist harmoniously.

Keywords: Thomas Hardy  Far from the Madding Crowd  Eco-feminism