摘 要

   《小妇人》是美国十九世纪后半期女作家露易莎•梅•奥尔科特最著名长篇小说。该小说在全世界都有广泛的影响。《小妇人》是一本小说化的家庭日记，一本道德家世小说。它是所有描写美国家庭女性成熟经历作品中的典范。《小妇人》用朴实无华的写实手法把马奇家四姐妹的命运展现在读者面前，它不断地提醒人们：我们要过的生活其实十分简单，简单的生活本身就是一种幸福。马奇姐妹具有不同的性格和才华，但都注重自己的精神提高和完善，并极力保持自助和自我独立的精神并且最终成为自强自立的小妇人。她们给读者留下了极为深刻的印象。但一直以来鲜少有人探索她们的婚姻，本文则着重介绍《小妇人》中梅格和乔的爱情观和婚姻观，探索她们婚姻观和爱情观。本文的第一部分主要介绍该课题的意义，国内外研究概况，第二部分介绍《小妇人》的创作背景和作者自身的经历，第三部分主要分析文中主人公梅格和乔的爱情和婚姻，第四部分则分析得出作者的爱情婚姻观，那就是婚姻必须以爱情为基础，女性在婚姻中应该独立，妻子和丈夫地位平等。

关键词：《小妇人》；奥尔科特；爱情观婚姻观；自立；女性主义

Abstract

Little Women is the most famous novel written by the American female writer Louisa May Alcott in the late nineteenth century. The novel has a broad impact on the world. Little Women is a novel of the family diaries, and a novel of family ethic. It is a model of all descriptions of the experience by which females turn to be mature in the U.S. households. Little Women shows readers the fate of the four March sisters with a plain realistic approach, which constantly reminds people of the fact that the life we want to live is actually very simple and the simple life itself is a blessing to us. The March sisters have different personalities and talents, but they focus on their spiritual improvement and perfection, and strongly maintain the spirit of self-help and self-reliance and eventually they become strong and independent little women. They leave an especially deep impression on the readers. However, their marriages have rarely been researched, therefore, this paper focuses on the love and marriage of Meg and Jo in Little Women to explore their view of love and marriage. The first part introduces the meaning and the national and international research status of this subject; the second part introduces the background of Alcott and Little Women; the third part makes an analysis of love and marriage of the heroines Meg and Jo; and the fourth part analyzes Alcott’s view of love and marriage. That is, marriage should be based on true love, and the wife should be independent and be equal to their husband in marriage.

Keywords: Little Women; Alcott; love and marriage; independent; feminism