從女性主義視角探討女性身份的追求——評析德拉布爾的三部小說

1、上海交通大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文從女性主義視角探討女性身份的追求——評析德拉布爾的三部小說姓名：董婷婷申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：何偉文20091201iiABSTRACT Margaret Drabble (1939--) is a prominent British writer enjoying an international fame and popularity in contemporary times. She

2、 has great sympathy with women who suffer from inequality in the patriarchal society. Almost all of her novels probe into the predicament and loss of self-identity capable and well-educated female intellectuals have been

3、 confronted with in their pursuit of self-fulfillments. Each novel manifests different manners contemporary women take to rebel against suppression to regain their self-identity and self-fulfillments. This thesis chooses

4、 three novels of Drabble’s early literary creation, A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone and The Waterfall to analyze intellectual women’s quest for self-identity and fulfillments with gallantry and persistence from the per

5、spective of feminism. What accounts for the study of three novels lies in the fact that the three novels could be regarded as a trilogy. Here are the reasons. Firstly, they bear similar themes, delving into how newly lib

6、erated female intellectuals struggle out of confusion and perplexity to pursue their self-identity and realize their fulfillments in the patriarchal society. Secondly, they reveal Drabble’ feminist consciousness to the f

7、ull by depicting three manners the female characters in the three novels have used respectively to pursue their identity and fulfillments. In the first novel of the trilogy, A Summer Bird-Cage, the protagonist, Sarah is

8、plunged into serious consideration when she gets confused about intellectual women’s identity and roles. Her perplexity reveals that intellectual females begin to be awakened from slumber of subordination in the past to

9、reconsider women’s identities. It heralds the time for women to embark on a journey for self-exploration has come. The Millstone, the second novel of the trilogy discloses two manners contemporary women use to regain the

10、ir identities. Firstly, they struggle out of their frustration and repression by challenging conventional ideology and shatter the feminine mystique imposed by patriarchy. Secondly, they realize their womanhood and regai