Heterosexual Harmony-Feministic Analysis Of The Three Protagonists In Nights At The Circus

Angela Carter is regarded as one of the fifty greatest British writers since 1945 by The Times in 2008, and Nights at the Circus is one of her famous representative works. Many critics do research on the novel from feminism, postmodernism, carnivalism, politics and history and so on. They mainly study the women characters and setting.For example, Paulina Palmer studies the novel from feminism and carnivalism to analyze characters.However, few of them focuses on the feminist awakening process of the three protagonists: Fevvers, Walser, and Lizzie, and pays attention to what Carter intends to express in the novel. On the basis of the available research achievements, this thesis attempts to employ feminism including androgyny, ecofeminism and Marxist feminism to systematically analyze the feminist awakening process of the three protagonists. It aims to reveal that constructing a harmoniously heterosexual relationship should be the ultimate aim of the feminist movement, which is also the theme of the novel. It is hoped that the thesis will be helpful to the research of the novel and make readers realize the aspiration of Carter is to establish a heterosexual harmony.