A Study Of The Feminine Images In Virgin Soil Upturned

This thesis mainly interprets the feminine images in Virgin Soil Vpturned on a viewpoint of feminist criticism, and analyses its special signification.The thesis is composed of three parts: Preface, Main text and Conclusion. The preface firstly establishes the basic consideration points of the thesis, and then with a point of feminism, makes an analysis of the feminine roles playing inVirgin Soil VpturnedThe main text includes four chapters:The first chapter discusses two kinds of the feminine love, which are classified into two typical poles from the male imagination of the feminine figures --an"enchanter" and an "angel"--Lushka and Valiya. Lushka and Valiya exactly beingrepresentatives of the two typical women's images, the discussion of the enchanter and the angel respectively occupy one section. In the first section, it explains the component factors of the enchanters and Lushka's personality , through which that reveals the men's complicated psychology of this kind of female. The second section relates the character of the angel through Valiya's feature.The second chapter introduces the meaning and the value of the dress and adornment. We select the skirts and the kerchiefs as the analytical objects, to emphatically investigate the gender sense of the skirts and the folk custom meaning the kerchiefs symbolize.The third chapter mainly comprises the narration and analysis of the novel. In...