Abstract:
Dracula was first published in 1897 by Irish novelist Bram Stoker. Although it is a vampire fiction, gender description in it has aroused great attention among many literary critics especially in recent years since its success of being adapted to film in 1931. Through textual analysis, especially the interpretation of the three representative female characters in the novel, namely Mina, Lucy and women in the castle, this thesis intends to get an insight into the submissive and rebellious consciousness of these feminine images through a feminist angle. It can be found that under an background of the novel being written in the late 19th century when feminism was awakening, Mina, Lucy and women in the castle represent traditional woman, awakening new woman and new woman respectively. From these representative feminine images we can see thousands of women’s fear and doubt about the awakening feminist consciousness, and how they started to fight for their freedom and against the male-dominated society and furthermore to think about the future of women in the long process of development of feminism.
Key words: Dracula; feminine images; Feminism; submission; rebellion
摘 要：
《德拉库拉》是由爱尔兰小说家布莱姆 •斯托克于1897发表的。尽管它是一本对于吸血鬼的小说，由于自1931年起的改编电影取得的巨大成功而得到极大了关注，近年来文中对于性别的描述也引起了大量的文学评论。 在文本解读的基础上，英语论文，本文旨在从女性主义的角度深入略论文中三个女性角色，即米娜、露西和城堡妖女，从而发掘这些女性形象的服从与反抗意识。可以发现, 在写于女性主义醒觉的19世纪末的这篇小说中，英语论文，米娜、露西和城堡妖女分别代表了传统女性、醒觉中的新女性和新女性。通过这些极具代表性的女性形象，我们能够看到无数女性关于醒觉中的女性意识的恐惧和怀疑以及她们如何开始为反抗男权社会而奋斗，从而进一步思考在漫长的女性主义发展历程中女性未来的走向。
关键词：《德拉库拉》；女性形象；女性主义；顺从；反抗
1 Introduction
Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London and personal assistant of actor Henry Irving who owned the theatre. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Stoker's stories are today included within the categories of "horror fiction," "romanticized Gothic" stories, and "melodrama."
1.1 A brief introduction of Dracula
Dracula, by Bram Stoker was first published in Great Britain in 1897. Since ancient times several different versions of myths and legends about vampires already had existed, and Stoker spent seven years collecting information about European folklore and mythological stories of vampires. Though it was not the first, Dracula was the most famous vampire novel ever. The contemporary Daily Mail ranked Stoker's powers above those of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe as well as Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
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