摘 要

十九世纪美国著名小说家欧文•华盛顿的小说作品《瑞普•凡•温克尔》和二十世纪台湾剧作家赖声川的戏剧作品《暗恋桃花源》，虽然有着不同的文化背景和时代特征，但是在情节和内容上有着惊人的巧合和类似。这也表明，女权主义的发展虽然跨越国界，却在独特的环境中形成了各自区别但又有联系的内涵。本文通过对不同作品中女权主义发展程度，女性形象形成原因的比较、剖析，呈现出作者眼中的社会以及不同时代和国家中女性的地位。《瑞普•凡•温克尔》通过对作品中的女性瑞普•凡•温克尔的妻子的分析，表达了作者欧文•华盛顿对她的理解和同情，是对当时社会普遍存在的男性沙文主义的控诉和指责；而在《暗恋桃花源》中，赖声川也在台湾文学中深刻地刻画了当时的一个女子形象春花。他描写了二十世纪八十年代台湾女性对时代的反抗，在那时的台湾，女性虽然在性别歧视上取得了解放，但是精神上却面临着巨大的压力。紧张、高压的生活让她们发疯，心灵的欲望和追求让她们迷失、不知所措。所以对这两部作品进行深层次的研究就显得十分有意义了。第一章主要对两部作品进行了简要的内容概括，而第二章阐述了女权主义的发展历史。第三章对两部作品中女性形象进行了对比，从而得出女权主义的发展差异。接着第四章研究了两部作品中造成女性形象差异的原因，并在最后对此做了全面总结。
  
关键词：女性形象；女性主义发展；沙文主义；紧张；高压

Abstract

Although the novel Rip Van Winkle of the 19th century written by the famous American novelist Washington Irving, and the drama Peach Blossom Land of the 20th century created by Taiwan dramatist Stan Lai, bear the different cultural backgrounds and times features, they somehow share the unbelievable coincidences and similarities in both plots and contents. This thesis shows that territorial boundary doesn’t separate the development of feminism, but accelerate the formation of their differences and connections. It mainly contributes to the feminism development and the female status by the comparison and analysis of the women in both works. In Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving, with his understanding and sympathy on the main female character — Dame Van Winkle, who is the wife of Rip, shows his great protest against the chauvinism at that specific period; Meanwhile, in the work Peach Blossom Land Stan Lai also portraits an impressive female image, Chunhua, in Taiwan literature. The females in the 1980s Taiwan fight against the specific time, and even though the female have gained the liberation from the traditional sexual discrimination, faced with the stress from the tense and stressful modern life, they are still driven crazy, and begin to lose themselves by the control of inner desires and pursuit. So it does make it significant to study the two works. Chapter One presents the brief introduction to two works. Then Chapter Two focuses on the development of Feminism. Chapter Three mainly contributes to the comparison of females’ words, actions, emotions and other details in the two works. Chapter Four is the study of the causes of the differences and similarities of feminism in both works, and the last chapter is the conclusion of this specific study.

Keywords: female images; development of feminism; chauvinism; tense; stressful