A Comparative Study Of The View Of Women On A Dream Of Red Mansions And The Works Of Jane Austen

The research about women’s view of authors is an important part of the world literary studies. Today, the status of women is improving, and the study of literature in the view of women has been done by more and more experts. Last look, the view of women itself has its own law of development, in order to understand the view of women which developed on Modern Context, we must contrast the classic works of the past in view of women, and to better understand the conventional view of women, you need to use comparative study. The era of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century, it was the world commodity economy began rapid development, women writing get attention in the West, Austen is advocating advanced feminism representative, simultaneously, A Dream of Red Mansions appeared in the east. Austen and Cao Xueqin occupied a large component of the world literature, so it makes sense to compare their view of women.This paper will put A Dream of Red Mansions and Austen’s works on a same platform, to which the two writers of different social background as the basis for the similarities and differences of the dual structure, with parallel studies in Comparative Literature manner frame female, aiming to architecture the framework of the female consciousness in the eighteenth-century literature. Not only to show the respective characteristics of Eastern and Western cultures, and will also provide an example of cross-cultural circles comparative study.At the same time, the study of the view on A Dream of Red Mansions is not systematic, ant the study of the feminism exists in Austen’s works lacks contrast. This paper aims to compare them on the view of women, in order to make up for the lack of the view of women on the two types of works.This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is the introduction, This part briefly describes the origin and the need to solve the problem; it presents the research results and explains the research methods, and try to include a few decades’study on them.The first three chapters are the main part of this paper, the view of women is divided into three parts, namely, the concept of the status of women, women’s ability.Chapter One uses the method of social analysis, reappear the "hierarchy" and "male chauvinism in the living time of Cao Xueqin and Austen advanced to explain the roots of feminism and the emergence of performance, the part is also the basis of the whole paper.Chapter Two focuses on views of women. This part reveals the role of money in love, the marriage of form and freedom of marriage and other issues to explore further comparison. A Dream of Red Mansions and the works of Jane Austen on the role of money varying degrees of importance, not only reveals that the different ways of life of the two authors, but also indirectly reflects the East-West different social outlook, especially in the economic development outlook. Their view of Derailment can explain a lot, so I do the focus of discussion.Chapter Three discusses the perspective of women’scapability. In a normal society, women’s ability determines its status and the concept of marriage, so here I inks the most,trying to present clearly the different views of the two types of works on the concept of the ability of women.