浅谈《虹》中的婚姻观_英语论文

A Brief Analysis of the Marriage values in Rainbow

摘要

《虹》是劳伦斯最成功的社会批判小说之一, 也是他创作最高成就的代表。 《虹》中三代女主人公独立意识的发展和崛起, 展现女性一个自我发现、自我发展、自我崛起的过程。本论文通过对文本分析，剖析了布朗文家族三代人的婚姻问题，导致他们婚姻问题的原因，以及婚姻的结局，以探究他们婚姻观的异同及他们对理想爱情和婚姻的追求和憧憬。本论文的结论是理想的婚姻应该是精神到肉体融合的感情。

关键词：劳伦斯；《虹》；婚姻观；两性关系

Abstract

Rainbow was one of D. H. Lawrence’s most successful social criticism novel, and it was his creation representing the highest achievement. The description of the three hostesses’ symbolisms in the novel of Rainbow, it analyzed the development and rise of independent sense of three generations’ women and showed women’s a self-discovery, self-development and self-rising process in the 19th century British .

In my paper, through the text analysis, the paper analyzed the marital problems in Brown family of the three generations, the causes of their marital problems, and marriage ending. This paper was to explore the similarities and differences of their views on marriage, their longing and the pursuit of ideal love and perfect marriage. Through the analysis, the thesis can conclude that the ideal marriage should be a feeling of integration between spirit and body.

Keywords: Lawrence;  Rainbow;  marriage views；gender relations

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 1

3. Marital status of three generations 1

3.1 Tom and Poland widow’s marriage 1

3.2 Anna and his nephew Will’s marriage 2

3.3 Ursula and Kerensky’s love 3

4. Marriage difference of three generations 4

4.1The confused marriage of the first generation  4

4.2 The ethereal marriage of the second generation  5

4.3 The promising marriage of the third generation 5

5. The causes of marriage differences in three generations 6

5.1 The advent of the industrial time 6

5.2 The changes of matrimony 7

5.3The rising awareness of modern women 8

5.4 The changes of relation between the two sexes 9

6.Conclusion 11

Works  Cited 13