Abstract:

Jane Austen is a well-known English novelist. Most of her works are romantic fictions, which make her become one of the most famous writers in English literature. What’s more, she earned an important place among scholars and critics with her realism and biting social commentary. From 1811 to 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813), Mansfield Park(1814) and Emma(1816), she achieved success as a published writer. Sense and Sensibility reveals that women treat the marriage as the only way to economic security and social status in the temporal society in England.
Virginia Woolf, hailed as a pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th Century, is an English female writer, reviewer and theoretician of literature, and the representative of stream of consciousness. During the two World Wars, she was a core of literary in London, and also a member of Bloomsbury Group. Her emphasis is not on plot or characterization but on a character’s consciousness, thoughts and feelings with the stream of consciousness technique and interior monologue in her works. A Room of One’s Own encourages women to fight for economic dependence and social status.
This thesis discusses the similarities and differences of the main characters in the two novels from the perspective of feminine consciousness. It exposes women’s condition of life and the awakening of feminine consciousness, encourages and supports more and more women to stand up to fight for their beautiful life.

Key words: Sense and Sensibility；A Room of One’s Own；feminism; comparison

摘要：

简·奥斯汀，英国小说家，她的作品大多描写地主家庭的女性的爱情与婚姻，这种风格使奥斯汀成为英国文学中最被广泛阅读的作家之一。她的现实主义与尖锐的社会评论为她在学者及评论家中赢得了重要的地位。从1811年到1816年，《理智与情感》（1811），《傲慢与偏见》（1813），《曼斯菲尔德庄园》（1814），《爱玛》（1816）共四部作品面世，奥斯汀成功地成为了一名出版作家。《理智与情感》深刻揭示了当时的英国社会潮流中将婚配作为女子寻求经济保障、社会地位的唯一途径。
弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫，英国女作家、文学批评家和文学理论家，意识流文学代表人物，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋。两次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的代表人物，同时也是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。在她的作品中，她强调的不是情节或是特征描述，而是用意识流技巧和内心独白来阐述人物的意识、思想和感情。在《一间自己的屋子》中，作者鼓励女性去追求经济独立以及社会地位。
本文通过对比研究两部作品中两位主要人物的女性意识的相同点与不同点，揭露父权制社会下，女性生活的状态以及女性意识的觉醒，同时鼓励支持更多的女性同胞站起来，为自己的的美好生活而战。

关键词：《理智与情感》；《一间自己的屋子》；女性主义；对比