摘要
英国女性主义作家多丽丝•莱辛的短篇小说《屋顶丽人》是一部体现女性对自由的追求，同时也反映女性反叛精神及其独立意识的著作。美国南方文学代表人物威廉•福克纳的短篇小说《干旱的九月》则批判了严格恪守清教压制欲望，谴责任何享受和娱乐的南方社会，英语毕业论文，但也彰显了女主人公对旧传统的反叛精神。
本文在仔细阅读文本，英语毕业论文，并结合莱辛与福克纳生活经历和女性主义的基础上，将《屋顶丽人》及《干旱的九月》进行比较探讨，着重于略论两位女主角的反叛行为，旨在从女性作家及男性作家的不同视角切入，对比其写作风格以及所刻画的反叛精神具有的相同点及各自的独特之处。并尝试揭示两位作家对女性的反叛行为和精神所持的态度及情感。通过对比探讨，得出结论：尽管莱辛与福克纳在女性反叛的塑造措施和采取的具体态度有所不同，但其都认同女性关于男权社会中的不公对待应勇于反抗。
关键词：反叛，女性主义，天性，压抑，男权制
Abstract
The short story A Woman on a Roof, created by Britain feminist writer Doris Lessing, shows women’s pursuit of freedom, meanwhile, it embodies their rebellious spirit and independent consciousness. Dry September, the opus of William Faulkner, the leading writer of American Southern Literature, slams the repressive southern society which sternly abided by Puritanism and decried any indulgence and entertainment, furthermore, it also manifests women’s rebellion against moldy traditions.
Based on reading A Woman on a Roof and Dry September carefully as well as combining with the authors’ life backgrounds and feminism, this paper conducts a comparative study between the two texts, aiming at analyzing their different writing styles and the similarities and differences of women’s rebellious spirits depicted in the two texts. Meanwhile, through understanding the woman’s rebellion in the two short stories, this paper intends to analyze the attitudes Lessing and Faulkner adopted towards women’s rebellions. In the end, the paper finds out both of the two authors agreed that women should rebel against unfair treatment resulted from patriarchy and decayed traditions, although they employed different methods to depict the female characters and held partly distinct attitudes towards women’s rebellion.
Key words: rebellion, feminism, instinct, oppression, patriarchy
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