Beauvoir's Female Consciousness And Female Image Construction

Simone de Beauvoir is the most influential feminist and female writer of the twentieth century,whose masterpiece The Second Sex not only makes her a place in the history of feminism development,but also exerts great influence on the later feminist movement.Being a female writer,she created many famous novels include Les mandarins.Simone de Beauvoir creates and presents many colourful images of female characters in her novels.Beauvoir's feminist thought has its unique theoretical system,and these ideas are reflected in her female images.However,studies of her works,domestic or foreign,merely focuses on her feminist theory,little analysis of her feminist ideas has been made in relation to the female images she has portrayed.This paper will probe into and analyze Simone de Beauvior's feminist ideas in The Second Sex and will present further studies of her theory of feminism with female characters as the prototypes in her novels.