An Analysis Of Female Love Password In Henry James' Novels

Henry James (1843-1916) is an outstanding realist, stylist and literary critic. In world literature gallery, with his pen writing, depict many racy images of women. This thesis mainly focuses on his four novels, through to the works heroine love in the course of development of analysis, read the American upper-class female love password.This dissertation consists of six parts. The introduction is the preliminary part that provides the basic information about Henry James writing career, literary achievements, the literature review and this paper writing intention. The first chapter mainly analyzes the heroine--- Milly's love password in the novel The Wings of the Dove: Milly treats love as the pure childish, she always has a potential threat, and she wants to escape from reality, and finally she is regarded as a dove and she flies away. James expounds that women are sometimes love victim. The second chapter mainly analyzes the portrait of a lady of the heroine Isabel's love password in the novel The Portrait of a lady: she becomes a tragedy marriage loser, but she will not escape unfortunate marriage. Instead, she braves to face love which brings some misfortune, face life, and assume the responsibility of the life. James expounds that women will change from the simple to mature love, although sometimes she is a marital loser. The third chapter basically analyzes the heroine Katherine's love password in the novel Washington Square: Catherine, comparing to the pure naive love of Milly, chooses to fight. James shows that the female is the abounding love fighter. The fourth chapter mainly analyzes the heroine--- Maggie's love password in the novel The Golden Bowl: Maggie deals with the complex relationships between her and Adam, daughter and father, between Charlotte and her husband, the old pair of lovers, in an unusual way. From Maggie, the reader can see the love of women psychological evolvement track - by an attachment to his father's self-transformation for protective self, and finally the women obtain independent ego. Among the four heroines: Isabel, Catherine Sloper, Milly and Maggie, Maggie is the only unyielding life blow to the victor, she is the only heroine who possesses simultaneously the love of father, husband and child! She later wins a free and independent, she has defended himself as a woman's rights and interests. In short, these four novels from the adult female, interpretation of their love of different understanding and experience, both for love clinking pure Milly, to the love clinking firmly Catherine, to the love more mature but again failed marriages Isabel, or To love has an overall understanding of the complex of Maggie, James explores the female's mature and growth course to the readers: women experience the love from the love victim, the loser to a fighter and a winner. Sometimes women's love view of mature can't be separated by its unique social environment, the female character, as well as their marriage ethics of understanding. In short, the Victoria women's fate written by James has its proud social origin. Because autogenously, family and social heavy bondage, from their consciousness of thin and weak, but after the power of marriage love real-life experience, the women increasingly awaken and grow, and finally go through painful choices, struggle hard in materialization society to victory.