Abstract

The Hours is an experimental novel about the famous stream of consciousness novel writer Virginia Woolf and her masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway. A day in the life of three women, structure a work about human loss, despair, fear, longing and love. Cunningham set three times in the same time dimension through the subtle relationship between three women, through parallel narrative to reflect the essence of female’s value and life. The Hours have three lines, 1920s, Virginia Woolf, a writer; 1950s, Mrs. Brown, a housewife; at the end of the twentieth Century, Clarissa, a middle-aged female editor. Three women have subtle relationship, but the three women have different endings, their different attitudes toward life and values make them have their own different endings.
For The Hours, there is more research is about the intertextuality between The Hours and Mrs. Dalloway, and the feminist that this book shows. This paper researches the three protagonists’ different values and the different attitudes towards life in the book, and analyzes the collision of different values between them. This paper is based on the three protagonists’ background, attitude towards life, affecting the surrounding men and society give their role to analyze their different values, to understand the reason for their effects on different outcomes and their different values. Their different values have different source of inspiration for contemporary women.

Key words: female; values; Virginia Woolf; collision

摘  要

《时时刻刻》是关于英国著名意识流小说作家弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫及其小说代表作《达洛维夫人》的一本实验性小说。三个女人的一天生活，构织成一部关于人的失落、绝望、恐惧、憧憬和爱的作品。坎宁安利用三人之间的联系将三个不同的时代并置于同一时间维度，通过平行叙述来思考女性的价值和生活的本质。《时时刻刻》中共有三条主线，20世纪20年代的作家弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫；20世纪50年代的家庭主妇布朗夫人;20世纪末的中年女编辑克拉丽莎。三位女主公由一本书而有了微妙的联系，但是三位女主公的结局又不尽相同，她们对待生活的态度和价值观的不同使得她们有了各自的结局。
人们对这本书更多的是研究它与《达洛维夫人》之间的互文性，还有其中所表现出来的女性主义。本文研究的是书中三个女主人公不同的价值观和不同的生活态度，并分析她们之间不同价值观的碰撞。本文通过对三位女主人公的时代背景，对生活的态度，周围男性的影响和社会赋予她们的角色来分析她们各自不同的价值观，了解不同的价值观对她们的影响和对她们不同结局产生的原因,得出她们的价值观选择对现代女性有不同的启发。

关键词 :女性; 价值观; 弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫; 碰撞