摘要

作为十九世纪英国两位杰出的女作家，简·奥斯汀和夏洛蒂·勃朗特各自的代表作《傲慢与偏见》和《简·爱》自出版以来深受广大读者的欢迎和文学评论者的广泛关注。论文从女权主义的角度分析了两部作品中的女主人公——伊丽莎白·班纳特和简·爱，旨在从她们身上找到一些对当代女性有所启示的共同点。正文共有五章。第一章对女权主义进行了简介，第二章是《傲慢与偏见》和《简·爱》两部小说的故事梗概。第三章从女性主义的视角对两部作品中的两个女主角进行了比较分析，并提出了自己的见解。第四章主要分析了当今社会中女权主义的讨论和自己对于女权主义的观点。 最后一章对全文做了简单的总结。

关键词： 女权主义；独立；自由；平等

Abstract

Both Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte are remarkable and prominent women writers in the history of English literature. Their representative works — Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre — have been enjoying great popularity ever since their publication. By analyzing the two heroines — Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre from the perspective of feminism, the thesis is an attempt to find what they have in common and what revelation they have to the contemporary women .
The body of the thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One is the Introduction. Chapter Two is mainly about the stories in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. Chapter Three gives a comparative study of the two heroines in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre based on feminism. Chapter Four introduces briefly the discussion of Feminism in our society and my view about it. The last chapter is the conclusion of this thesis.
   
Key Words: Feminism, independence, freedom, equality