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Analysis The Duplicity Of Plots And Female Characters In Jane Austen's Novels

Posted on:2009-05-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245476703Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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After nearly two hundred years to the appreciation of the readers and critics of identification, the British author Jane Austen, already one of the classic writers are lucky to be a very small number of the parent society recognized by the writer one. The impact of the traditional patriarchal culture and the initial awakening of feminist consciousness were intertwined with in her. She neither inherited patriarchal culture comprehensively nor intensely subverted it, but take on the basis of a moderate posture of treason in the traditional culture inherited. Given the limitations of the times, as a conservative middle-class lady, Austen could not promote its progressive feminist consciousness in her open and clear position. Similarly, as a quick writer, she also did not become the mouthpieces of patriarchal culture. A double strategy was adopted in Austen's works, the female consciousness incompatible with the patriarchal culture hidden deep in the text, and the traditional patriarchal culture was covered in the text surface. In this way, she wrote women's own thinking, issued its own female voice. The dual strategy of the text reflected in the novels plot patterns and female characters image, so a major point of this two double version of the novel strategy was analyzed in this paper.This paper is divided into three sections, from Austen's novels circumstances of the dual mode, the double image of the female characters and Austen's text using the dual strategy of the reasons for these three specific areas discussed. The first part "the dual mode circumstances" were discussed in the three aspects, from the traditional teachings of succession with the rebels, the Cinderella fairy tale mode of inheritance, beyond and deconstruction, and reconstruction of the eloped circumstances model from the perspective of women; The second part of the "double image of the female characters" were discussed with text of careful exposition, from the character of confrontation, complementary "sister" image, the image of an incompetent mother and the marriage market up for sale in the poverty-stricken image of women; On the third part, the use of the dual strategy of the reasons for the text were deeply discussed, mainly from the author's social background of the times, the life experiences of the author , artistic choice, as well as female writers' " the author of anxiety" of the four aspects.Unlimited space rich in significance is covered under the surface of Austen's ordinary and simple text. This paper is committed to digging deeper meaning of Austen's works, opening its surface text with traditional patriarchal culture, interpretating the progressing female consciousness hidden deep of the works, and giving readers of the Austen's works a more comprehensive understanding.
Keywords/Search Tags:Austen, female consciousness, dual mode, circumstances, image of female characters
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