The Awakening Of Women In Self-awareness: "room With A View" Women's Studies

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970), in his novel A Room with a view, focuses on depicting the inner side of his heroes, especially for the heroine Lucy. The depiction of Lucy's inner world is quite delicate, precise, and vivid. Actually, the whole novel is just a complete process of the wake of Lucy's feminine self-consciousness. During the process, there is breakthrough; there is struggle; there is joyance; and there is also bewilderment. This thesis is intended to expatiate how Lucy surmounted all those visible and invisible obstacles and finally achieved the wake of her feminine self-consciousness. This thesis discusses in detail the whole process in which Lucy's unconsciousness is gradually transformed into feminine self-consciousness—from the formation of her unconsciousness to the complete achievement of her feminine self-consciousness.According to Hegel, the process of the development of people's self-consciousness can be divided into three parts, which are achieved by the connection with the nature, the communication with others, and the reflection of oneself respectively. The wake of Lucy's feminine self-consciousness also experiences such three similar phases.Getting rid of Great Britain, the cage of the typical patriarchy society, Lucy takes a deep breath of the fresh and natural air of Italy. Italy is just the nature which Lucy thirsts for but never has the chance to get close to. In Italy, Lucy, for the first time, faces nature, faces love, and even faces death all by herself, during which she realizes that she is an independent human-being, just like men. While visiting Italy, Lucy comes into contact with two persons who are quite different from those so-called British"gentlemen"that surround her. They are Mr. Emerson and his son. While communicating with them, she realizes that she is a woman who is quite different from men. Meanwhile, during the process of the achievement of the two kinds of self-consciousness, Lucy has never stopped reflecting herself: as a independent woman, who is different from those men, what dose she really want to pursue? Finally she realizes that as an independent woman, what she strives for is just the real love, which is based on equality and respect, between an independent man and an independent woman. Then she takes actions to pursue the love that she wants. Till then, her self-consciousness totally and completely wakes.In the novel, Forster gives Lucy"a room with a view". Through the room, Lucy sees the view of Italy, gets the chance to communicate with others equally, and understands deeply about herself. While as readers, through the room, we not only see the fresh and natural view of Italy, but also get the chance to see the inside"view"of Lucy. This view is just what Forster wants to show us. Under his pen, we see the change of Lucy from a medieval woman who is blindly submissive to an independent woman who is brave to pursue her own happiness, and we also witness the complete process of the wake of her self-consciousness. Now let's appreciate the unique view that Forster express to us together.