From The Perspective Of Ecological Feminist Interpretation "the Mill On The Floss"

This article reinterpreted The Mill on the Floss, the work, of the famous English woman writer George Eliot, from the Eco-feminism perspective. This article altogether divides into three parts:introduction, text, conclusion.Introduction concerns with George Eliot’s research significance and the existing research situation of both domestic and abroad. This parts also makes a general summary of the Eco-feminism theory as well as sorts out the overall train of thought of this paper.The text is divided into four chapters, with ecological feminist theory as the theoretical basis, in accordance with the division train of thought that the male and female constitutes the human society, and the three dimensions natural ecology, social ecology, spiritual ecology constitute the human survival space, sort out the relations among the different parts.The first chapter researches the relationship between nature and women in the novel from the natural ecological perspective. First, show the environment changes surrounds the Floss before and after the industrialization; after that, dicusses the women in the novel have what features in the natural ecology; at last, explicitly pointed out that the association between the nature and woman in the novel from the Eco-feminism perspective.The second chapter observes the relationship between the patriarchal society and female from the social ecological perspective. First of all, pointed out that in the19th century women’s survival significance defined by the British society is still in the position of "angel in the house"; after that, dicusses the women in the novel have what features in the social ecology, resistance or compliance; finally, clearly pointed out that the association between the society and woman in the novel from the Eco-feminism perspective.The third chapter pays attention to the relationship between the women and their inner self, from the spiritual ecology perspective, and to do the comparative study with the relationship between male that entangled in the social network and their inner self. First, it points out that the modern people suffered "the spiritual pollution", and thus have "the disease of civilization" and away from the true inner self; after that, discusses the women’s features in terms of the spiritual world in the novel, and compared it with the male’s; finally, from the from the Eco-feminism perspective, clearly pointed out that in the aspects of spiritual ecology, the natural female has close correlation with her inner self.The fourth chapter researches not only the relationship between male and female in the novel, but also surveys their confrontation with the nature and the society.In the conclusion part, the author wants to speak of the understanding of the Eco-feminism and the work of George Eilot on the basis of the text:the men and women live together with the nature and society harmoniously.