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The Voyage Of Self

Posted on:2006-04-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Z ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360155977683Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Female had been others for a long time before. During about two hundred years since Jane. Austen ,women constructed their own speech in the exclaim of feminism and female writing at all times. Austen is a illuminative rationalist ,an English writing pioneer ,a world-class forerunner. By guarding her own speech consciously and firmly, she realized self-worth.Being closed at home for long , women's natural affection and humanistic care have been conserved fortunately ,but meanwhile also brought out lack of their social class and ego elapse. All their lives ,they successively present daughter, wife , mother, grandmother so on. They are not their living guide ,so forget who they are and lose their own capacity very long. In the period in Jane Austen's life , most women didn't think of their dignity consciously. That isn't comprehensive to say that Jane is a moralist because she only told stories about female love , marriage ,happiness in female position. in order to awake their ego mind. In fact ,female speech is full of care and moral. Jane Austen thought the key of realizing self-realization was to get reason which judged something being around main body. In this way ,female could intercommunicate with others, self-realization came true rationally and intellectually.Martin Buber (1878-1965),a German philosopher said, human lives in two worlds_______"its" and "yours".In "its" earth. object dissociates main body , regarded assomething else or someone else as women are regarded as something else or others who are puny crew in male diction. However, in Austen's novels, female achieves self-realization in "your" earth where "I" meet "you", not look on "you" as "other" or dissociate "you" With female standpoint,Austen narrated trivial, interesting livelihood. By force of readers of her novels, her self-realization implement, and heroines as the representatives of the writer, their successful choice declares femaleself-realization and speech construction .Austen's writing differentiates masculine one because her female speech fills natural affection ,dedication, harmonious and idealswishes .Aiming at this above ,the text interprets Austen's novels_______"the voyageof self."...
Keywords/Search Tags:female, Jane Austen, heroines, self-realization
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