Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: Jane Austen, the most outstanding woman novelist at the end of 18th century, was the first important woman writer in the history of English literature as well. In her short life, she has created six complete novels and left behind three fragments. Apparently, she writes about everyday life, but in fact, Austen describes many women characters in detail from her individual feminist perspective and focuses on the improvement of their ability and status, which reveals the awakening feminist consciousness. All her novels have been interpreted by many critics. However, so far the analyses about Persuasion are mainly focused on the view of love and marriage etc, while there is little study on the feminist consciousness. Therefore, this thesis tries to put more emphasis on the detailed description of Anne and other women characters from Austen’s feminist viewpoints and to explore Austen’s feminist consciousness and the social significance as well.

Key words: Jane Austen; Persuasion; women characters; feminist consciousness

摘要：简•奥斯汀是18世纪末杰出的英国女小说家，同时也是英国文学史上第一个重要的女作家。在短短的一生中，她共创作出了六部小说和三个未完成的故事片断。表面看来，奥斯汀的作品是在描写琐碎的日常生活，其实她在小说中从她特有的女性主义角度通过对女性人物的描写，突出了女性能力和地位的提升，反映了女性意识的觉醒。文学评论者对奥斯汀的名作都进行过了分析和评论。但是，迄今为止，对《劝导》的研究大多集中在她笔下的女性的婚姻观、爱情观上，而对《劝导》中女性人物形象所反映出来的女性意识的研究较少。所以本文从奥斯汀特有的女性观念出发，通过对女主人公安妮和其他女性人物的详细分析，探讨了作品中所反映的奥斯汀的女性意识及其体现出来的社会意义。

关键词：简•奥斯汀；《劝导》；女性人物；女性意识

1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to Jane Austen and Her Main Works
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary cements her historical importance among scholars and critics. Eager readers perceived that “Jane Austen’s novels presented a mode of life which brought into question the life they themselves lived”. Her social approach to literature is based on facts, traditions and attitudes which were part of the social fabric, as well as part of Jane Austen’s novels because “there is a relationship between the literary form and the structure of the social environment, in which it is developed”. Confined to the limited living sphere Austen’s works were mainly focused on “3 or 4 families in a Country Village”. That is why some critics comment that Austen worked on “little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory’. It was in her well familiar and grasping range of scope that Austen gained an ever-widening popularity.