Acknowledgements 5-6 摘要 6-7 Abstract 7 Introduction 9-22 0.1 A Brief introduction of Fowles’s life and literary career 9-13 0.2 A Brief Introduction of The French Lieutenant’s Woman 13-15 0.3 Literature Review 15-22 Chapter One Freedom: Sartre and Fowles’s Views 22-31 1.1 Sartre’s Views of Existential Freedom 22-26 1.2 Fowles’s Views of Existential Freedom 26-31 Chapter Two The Restrictive and Repressive Victorian Society 31-41 2.1 The Absurd and Hypocritical Reality 31-35 2.2 The Conservative and Conventional Cultural Shackles 35-41 Chapter Three Pursuit of Individual Freedom 41-57 3.1 Sarah Woodruff: From Self-denial To Self-discovery 41-50 3.2 Charles Smithson: From Self-ignorance To Self-knowledge 50-57 Chapter Four Multiple Freedom Realized by Narration 57-69 4.1 Liberated Characters Out of Narrative Control 57-60 4.2 Liberated Author through Intrusive Narrator 60-64 4.3 Liberated Reader with Free Choice of the Endings 64-69 Conclusion 69-72 Bibliography 72-77 |
