The Discussion Of Feminism Theme In Mansfield's Short Stories

Katherine Mansfield is a genius woman writer on the literary history of world not allowing neglect.For pursuing the literature dream, she abandoned the rich and comfortable life, choosing the much more frustrated difficult life road. She experienced personally every kind of life, enjoying the happiness that other people can't enjoy, passing through the pain and sufferings never by other people. This finally achieved several of ten exquisite short stories. She wrote down a glory brushstroke on the literary history of world and got a place for herself. This dissertation carefully selects out 12 from numerous Mansfield's short stories and uncovers the feminism theme inside Mansfield's short stories by thoroughly and delicately analyzing.Chapter one introduces Mansfield's life and literature writing ,explains the close contact between her individual experiences and her literature writing, in aid of readers going more deep into the theme and meaning of her writing.Chapter two analyzes the females in the works who are oppressed in sex by the paternity society. In the paternity society, whether inside or outside marriage, whether rich or poor, female can't succeed in escaping the common destiny of becoming man' sexual object and tool.Chapter three discusses how the paternity society distorts the female spirit in the stories. In Mansfield's short stories usually appears some of Cinderella-type female characters, their mental state usually behaves to be ill healthy state such as fanciness, peacockery, schizophrenia, spiritual strain and jealousness etc.Mansfield depicted it vividly and lifelike thoroughly with her extremely fine style of drawing. However she doesn't stay at the surface only, but further uncover the substance that the women were distorted by the paternity society.Chapter four discusses three kinds of different attitudes the women in the stories take in the face of the paternity society's oppression. Some women of ground floors choose tolerance when confronted with oppression because of chronical conditioning...