Women’s Tragedy:A Feminist Reading of Sons and Lovers

The novel Sons and Lovers, which is Lawrence’s best acclaimed work, is of autobiographic air. It is called the best representation of Sigmund Freud’s "Oedipus Complex"theory by critics, though Lawrence denied having read Freud before writing the novel. However, it can shed new light on the novel when read in a different point of view. Paul’s road to become a real man can not be separated from his mother, Miriam and Clara, who is Paul’s first and second loves respectively. This article will analyze the novel in feminist perspective and concentrate on the three women’s sacrifice to Paul’s growth in a man-centered society, in hope of better understanding the intension of the novel.     

On Sister Carrie from Feminist Perspective and its Influence on Chinese Modern Women

Sister Carrie is a famous naturalistic novelist-Theodore Dreiser’s first novel in the first 20th century.It tells a story of a young rural woman Carrie how to become the red Broadway actress from the bottom of society,and the story vividly depicts the survival state and psychological and ideological process of Carrie.When it was published,it attracted attentions of critics from domestic and abroad at large,and they researched it from different perspectives.But most of their researches discussed from the materialism angle to concern with the expression of Determinism and Darwinism.So far,few people made the research from the topic of Carrie’s pursuit of self-achievement and perspective of feminist.Actually,not only did Carrie restrict on the material pursuit,but also boldly in pursuit of the self-achievement of new women.This paper aims at Carrie how to pursue the selfachievement of new women,and the influence of feminist to Chinese modern women.     

Debunking Partriarchy:A Feminist Paradym of Doris Lessing’s the Golden Notebook

All human relationships are constructed and defined by the relative power of the interacting persons. Women, most often than not have been defined in all spheres of life in terms of their relationships with men. Most literary texts written by men over the years have tended to give women subordinate roles. A new trend however seems to have emerged with the appearance of women writers on the scene. These writers have sought to reconstruct these negative stereotypes by redefining the role of the woman in the light of current global and contemporary trends. This article sought to examine how Doris Lessing in her Golden Notebook has given voice to feminist concerns through her major protagonist:Anna Wulf. The article specifically looks at how Anna challenges patriarchal conventions and choose to express herself through writing initially considered to be the sole preserve of men. The article used the feminist literary theory as the main instrument for analysis.     

Woman’s Celibacy:Power or Alienation? Feminist Concerns in A.S.Byatt’s Quartet

As one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, A.S. Byatt depicts the true situation of women in her"Frederica Quartet". The quartet involves some feminist issues such as marriage and celibacy, female power and women’s alienation. In the quartet, Byatt associates the mythical virgin images to the women figures in real life, and contemplates possible ways for women to survive and keep female power in a male-dominated society. It makes a detailed analysis on the recurring virgin images and the characterization of female characters in the quartet, aiming to analyze the theme of Byatt’s quartet and reveal her feminist concerns.     

George Eliot's Feminism in The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot(1819-1880)is an outstanding female writer in Victorian Age.Virginia Woolf,a feminist pioneer,once praised her as"the pride and paragon of the female".However,her feminism is ambivalent.On the one hand,she dares to challenge the male-dominated society and supports women’s rights to receive education and freedom of love and marriage.On the other hand,she emphasizes that women should make self-sacrifice to help men achieve their goals.Based on The Mill on the Floss and studies of previous scholars,this thesis tries to analyze George Eliot’s ambivalent feminism.Thus it is beneficial for readers to observe and think about women’s future.     

Katherine Mansfield: A Special Feminist-By a Close Reading of A Dill Pickle

Although Katherine Mansfield never claimed that she was a radical feminist, she showed her concerns and pondered on females through her life of pursuing freedom and independence, her creative writing skills and her short stories. She had her own feminism consciousness and viewpoints. She believed that man and woman were different and living in a different world, and it’s very hard to understand and communicate with the other sex. Man dominated the society in the economical and political areas in tradition that they had the speech right and ranked above woman. However, Mansfield saw the hope of the awakening of the feminism awareness.     

Feminist Motifs in William Faulkner

As we all know, William Faulkner shows really concern for the Southern people, especially the Southern women who suffer the most. In Faulkner’s works women characters play an important role, which is confirmed. After the theories of feminist literary come to understand Faulkner criticism, critics to Faulkner’s novels drafting an encouraging response detect the author himself either as a pro-feminist or a misogynist. On analyzing the woman characters through Addie and Lena Grove—the women images in As I Lay Dying and Light in August, we found out that Faulkner is neither simple a pro-feminist nor a misogynist in the patriarchal society.     

The Dream of Freedom—An Interpretation of The Story of an Hour from the Perspective of Feminism

Kate Chopin,one of the most outstanding women writers in the late nineteenth century in America,focused on women’s social position,marriage and family,love and freedom to fight against patriarchalism.She wrote two novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s.And over a long period of time,critics have considered The Story of an Hour as a work of feminism which offers a strikingly feminist perspective on an American housewife of that time.This thesis analyzes the inner experience of the heroine within an hour and shows us that freedom is so essential to her while her marriage is a yoke to her.     

The Beauty of Androgyny:Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs

Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett’s masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, from which Jewett’s preference of androgyny is fully expressed. In this novel, androgyny is used as a means by Jewett to achieve her feministic idea of the equality between men and women and that neither of the sex has prejudice upon the other in this combination. Through a detailed textual analysis, this paper reveals the androgyny elements in this novel and discusses about the possibility of androgyny as a way out for feminism.     

On the Awakening of Edna

The Awakening is a remarkable work of feminism written by Kate Chopin. The novel mainly depicts how Edna comes to her awakening and develops into a new woman with a heartfelt concern for freedom, equality and independence. The novel had significant influence on the formation of women's literature and contributed a lot to the achievements of feminist movement.     

Being Emotionally Independent Instead of Suffering——A Feminist Analysis of "How I Finally Lost My Heart"

"How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing’s many short stories are less mentioned or studied by Chinese researchers and scholars,especially "How I Finally Lost My Heart".Therefore,this paper is intended to analyze this short story from the feminist perspective,and attempts to show the exact process of women’s emotional independence as well as highlight the writer’s deep concern on women’s thorough liberation.     

Jane Austen’s Ambivalent Feminism in Pride and Prejudice

"Ambivalence" is a word which entered the language only in this century,the feminism reflected in Pride and Prejudice is ambivalent.Not only was Jane Austen’s novel composed almost 200 years ago,but in it she seems to attack love-as-attraction,a notion presupposed in the idea of emotional ambivalence,which is reflected from Austen’ subconciousness,from the main themes of the novel,from the characters’ modelling and from four marriages in the novel,which also boasts the significance of studying ambivalent feminism in literature.In addition,it manifests the limitations and awakening of feminist consciousness.The thesis also applies the influence of Jane Austen’s ambivalent feminism in the field of literature.     

A Comparative Feminist Study of The Color Purple and Good Morning,Miss

Chi Li and Alice Walker are both feminist writers.In their Good Morning,Miss and The Color Purple,male-central ism and the benighted state of women are thoroughly exposed.Sisterhood plays an important role in the awakening of women in both books,but the prospect of man-woman relationship is sharply different.By making comparison and analyzing the underly ing reasons,it can be seen that there’s still a distance between the Western and Chinese feminism.     

Janie’s Self-Awakening Journey

As one of the greatest Afro-American writers of the 20th century during the period of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston drew on her own experiences as a feminist Afro-American female to create a story of a female character Janie Crawford in her book There Eyes were Watching God. In the history of literature, it has come to be regarded as a"seminal work in both African-American literature and Woman’s literature."(Louis Gates 1993). The main character Janie Crawford is definitely a typical representative of feminism and feminist movement and as a women who successfully achieved her self-consciousness, she has been commenting and criticizing for a long period of time. This research paper will analyzes how Janie achieves her self-awakening in the man-dominated society through Janie’s childhood and her three periods of completely different marriages.     

An Analysis on the Female Character of Theresa from the Angle of Feminism

The ethnic consciousness of immigrant Americans was greatly awakened by the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, which consequently had immeasurable impact on Asian-American Literature. Gish Jen, author of Typical American (1991) shortlisted for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, gives readers a new glimpse of the multicultural American society with her specific writing strategies. In the paper, the author tries to analyze the living dilemma of Theresa from the angle of feminism in three aspects: in the society, in her family and in her internal Chinese feudal male chauvinism. The author also tries to reveal Gish Jen’s ideal of building an equal and harmonious society for male and female, freeing women and developing women’s self-consciousnesses in this novel.     

A Contrastive Study of the Heroines in A Doll’s House and Macbeth

A Doll’s House and Macbeth obviously belong to different categories in content. However, the two heroines in these two plays, Nora Helmer and Lady Macbeth, demonstrate similar feminist qualities. By staging an overall contrastive analysis on the personality and tragic life of two protagonists from the perspective of feminism, it is founded that both of them are victims oppressed by the patriarchal system and they all have feminine consciousness against this system. Nevertheless, their distinctive complex personalities and different story settings make the reasons for their rebellion differ in many ways and they end up with different endings.     

STRUGGLE FOR A "ZERO ZONE"——Women’s Plight Situation in The Little Foxes

The little foxes, Lillian Hellman’s most popular piece of drama, is a cynical play which concerns with family greed and revenge. Analyzed from various critical perspectives, The Little Foxes is most prominently studied on her political viewpoint. Here this paper is intended to study it from the aspect of women’s position in the drama, or more concretely, in that society by the analyzing of the two main women characters: Birdie and Regina, to reveal that whichever kind of life a woman living in the early twentieth chose to live, she would never be "successful".