A Study Of The Relationship Between Women And Animals In Alice Monroe's Works

Alice Munro(1931-)is a Canadian English novelist and is known as "modern Chekhov".She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013,becoming the first Canadian writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature and the thirteenth female author to win the prize.Munro's works focus on the living conditions of women in contemporary society,and the novels mostly depict the marriage life of women in contemporary society."Feminism" is a hot topic in munro's novels.In this paper,based on the study of the female images in the works of Monroe,luo door animals with women in the works,Monroe's works in a large number of animal image,and these animals is closely related with the female image of Monroe's works,this paper discusses the Monroe women contact with animals,thus further analysis of Monroe's feminist thoughts.This paper is divided into five parts:The introduction mainly introduces the life and works of Alice munro,and the research on this topic at home and abroad as well as the thinking of the thesis writing.The first chapter discusses the relationship between munro and the animal,from the natural features of Canada's regional environment and the life and animals of menlo.The second chapter to discuss the relationship between women in Monroe works with animals,from women's symbiotic relationship with animals,women with animals for him,with animals for marginalized groups and the weak mutual partners of four aspects:women and animals for research.The third chapter mainly discusses Monroe's female consciousness.First introduced feminism from the macroscopic Angle,including the importance of ecological feminism,secondly discuss Monroe's female consciousness with other similarities and differences of feminist,by Monroe works in women's relationship with animals,summarizes the Monroe's female consciousness with animals.Conclusion summarizes the thesis,the main point of the Alice · Monroe works in the animal is not only a pet or yard livestock,they appear more to partners,family,and is closely related with the life of the heroine,with rich symbolic meanings.Monroe using animals to express her special feminine consciousness,the animal has connected with women,they are the victim of thepatriarchal consciousness,but this inequality is not be broken.