摘要

    威廉·福克纳(1897-1962)是美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，意识流文学在美国的代表人物。福克纳作品中女性角色在其作品中占有重要的地位，对他作品中女性人物的探析有助于我们深入理解其作品中蕴含的丰富内涵。本文旨在透过福克纳最成功和最难懂的小说《喧哗与骚动》，从女性主义视角对他的女性情结予以重新审视。本论文首先从福克纳及其作品《喧哗与骚动》的作品简单介绍，对其中重点女性人物进行分析；其次以福克纳的感情和生活经历为参照，解释小说《喧哗与骚动》中女性形象在作者生活中的具体来源，并探讨小说中康普生三兄弟对凯蒂的依恋与憎恨的种种原因。最后得出结论：在《喧哗与骚动》中，福克纳根据自身生活经历塑造出自私的母亲，反叛的女儿凯蒂以及唯一充满爱的黑仆迪尔希，他通过康普生三兄弟对凯蒂的不同情感充分表明自己对新南方女性在扭曲的女性观下的惋惜以及对她们敢于抗争的赞美。

关键词  威廉·福克纳，《喧哗与骚动》，女性形象，南方女性主义

Abstract

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is one of the most influential American novelists, the representative of the Stream of Consciousness in the United States. The women images play great roles in his works. By analyzing them, it can help us understand his works more deeply. This paper aims to re-examine his female complex from the feminism perspective through his most successful and the hardest novel The Sound and the Fury. It first introduces the novel and analyzes the main female characters. Then it explains the real sources of the female characters in Faulkner’s living experiences and discusses the various reasons for the three brothers’ love and hatred to their sister Caddy according to his actual unpeaceful emotional and life experiences. The concluding part points out that, in the novel, the author had created a selfish mother Mrs. Compson, a rebellious daughter Caddy and a kindhearted black servant Dilsey on the basis of his own life. The different feelings he gave to the Compson brothers fully demonstrated his attitudes to those new southern women. To Caddy, the typical new southern woman, Faulkner shows his great regrets for living in the distorted feminism and also his praise for her courage to fight against it.

Keywords  William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, women images, southern feminism

1  Introduction
William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), America’s greatest novelist in the last century from Oxford, Mississippi, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. Faulkner is famous for his novels, short stories, poems, essays, screenplays, etc. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories and many of them are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The setting Faulkner created is based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life.