[摘要]
夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《简·爱》和简·里斯的《藻海无边》分别描述了一位独特的具有典型性的女性简·爱和伯莎。两位作者在小说中揭示了当时社会环境下的女性话语状况。本文应用福柯的权力话语理论和女性主义理论，英语毕业论文，从人物话语权的角度略论两部著作的女性话语权的缺失，指出其女性话语权的缺失主要表现在女性被视为没有发言权的“他者”以及她们的思想和行为都受制于男性，并进一步比较略论两部著作中女性话语权的缺失在表现形式上的差异之处。
[关键词]女性主义；话语权的缺失；男权社会；《简·爱》；《藻海无边》
Abstract:
Charlotte Bronte in her Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys in her Wide Sargasso Sea each described one typical woman, Jane Eyre and Bertha. The two writers in their novels explore the discourses of women characters in that specific society. By applying Foucault’s theories of discourse power and theories of feminism, this paper analyzes that the deprivation of feminine discourse in the two works, mainly focusing on women as “Other” without any voice and their thoughts and behavior, and further compares the similarities and differences on the deprivation of feminine discourse right in the two works
Key Words: feminism; deprivation of discourse; male-dominated; Jane Eyre; Wide Sargasso Sea
1. Introduction
Charlotte Bronte is a talented realistic woman novelist in the Victorian age of English literature. She exposes the oppression and suppression of women in a patriarchal society, thus changing women’s muted state. Her work contributes much to the formation of a female literary tradition. Her Jane Eyre has been popular with readers all over the world since its publication in 1847. It exhibits a tendency of subversion of male discourse and construction of feminist discourse. In Jane Eyre Charlotte successfully creates Jane’s vivid image that seeks economic independence and struggles for love and equality, taking the form of both a fictional autobiography and a bildungsroman. As an autobiography, it presents the story of Jane’s life from her own adult perspective and in her own words; As a bildungsroman, it is the story of the education of an individual, both through formal education and by growing into maturity.
Wide Sargasso Sea is considered the prequel of Jane Eyre, and has received comprehensive attention after published. It narrates the story of Antoinette—Rochester’s mad wife Bertha Mason, the original name in colonial society Jamaica during the mid-nineteen century. Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, on the basis of her experience as a white Creole, consciously breaks the silence of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre to announce her self-identity, and endows Bertha a voice to tell how she is cajoled into marriage, robbed of all property, deprived of her discourse right and diagnosed as a mad woman.
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