《名利场》女性主义分析_英语论文

A Brief Analysis of Vanity Fair in the Feminist Perspective

摘要

长篇小说《名利场》是萨克雷的成名作和代表作。它以辛辣讽刺的手法，真实描绘了英国上流社会没落贵族和资产阶级暴发户等各色人物的丑恶嘴脸和弱肉强食、尔虞我诈的人际关系。两个女主人公分别是出身贫寒但野心勃勃的蓓基和懦弱温柔的富家女艾米丽。从贫贱进入富裕的道路很不平稳，富家女的运途亦多坎坷，正是两人此起彼落的遭遇，构成一个引人关怀又动人情感的故事。本课题主要是从女性视角分析名利场中作者所要表达的不同的思想，以及所反应的时代现象等。从人物的出身背景对其个人性格特质的影响着手，交代清楚人物之间的关系线索，这一切叙述铺垫完成之后，再以当时的社会背景作为提升之处。不仅要点名两个女性主要人物的特质，更重要的是要放在家庭背景和社会背景的大环境下，然后再与女性主义视角相结合分析人物特质。

关键词：名利场；萨克雷；女性主义；蓓基；艾米丽

Abstract

The novel Vanity Fair is Thackeray's masterpiece. With the bitter irony, it described the ugliness of the British upper class, the noble and bourgeois upstarts. One of the one protagonists is Becky who was born poor but overweeningly ambitious. The other is Amelia who was in rich family with gentleness. From poverty to enter the path of prosperity is not smooth. And the life of the rich woman is rougher. It is the encounter of two people as one falls and another rises that constitutes a caring emotional and touching story. The thesis analyzes different ideas and age phenomena that the author expresses in Vanity Fair from the female perspective. It starts from the background and the influence of the characters’ personality traits with clear clues to the relationship between characters. After the completion of all the narrative way, it uses the social background at that time as improvement. It points the traits of two female main characters. The more important is to analyze character traits which are to be placed in the family background and social environment while combining the feminist perspective.

Key words：Vanity Fair; Thackeray; Feminism; Becky; Amelia

Contents

Introduction 1

1. Introduction of W. M. Thackeray 2

1.1 Thackeray’s Works and Writing Style 2

1.2 Thackeray’s Life Experience 3

2. William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair 4

2.1 Background of the Novel 4

2.2 Summary of the Novel 5

3. Feminism in Vanity Fair 6

3.1 Victorian Feminism 6

3.2 Author Thackeray 8

3.3 Characters’ Feminism 8

3.3.1 Enterprising Woman 8

3.3.2 The Angel in the House 12

Conclusion 13

References 15