An informal survey revealed that graduate students presented with Shakespeare's works felt academically unfit and powerless.These student-teacher-text power relationships parallel the power relationships between t...An informal survey revealed that graduate students presented with Shakespeare's works felt academically unfit and powerless.These student-teacher-text power relationships parallel the power relationships between the dominant patriarchy and female characters in'Othello'-Desdemona,Emilia,and Bianca.Both main characters contribute to the creation of the new or der.The writer wants to look briefly at a Shakespearean couple outside Othello as an attempt at alternative model for distributing power.展开更多
American animation How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2, loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by American Dreamworks Animation, were released separately in 2010 and 2014...American animation How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2, loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by American Dreamworks Animation, were released separately in 2010 and 2014. Those two animated films are set in a fictional Viking world and focusing on the experiences and adventures of protagonist Hiccup. Even though these two films are concerned with dragons, this paper discusses about the gendered stereotype under white patriarchy from the perspective of Foucault's power discourse theory. It mainly studies gendered stereotype and white patriarchal construction, revealing that the American animation, based on mass deception, is an evil machine to lead Chinese audiences to experience a complicated process to struggle with their own beliefs, values, ideas and hope.展开更多
This paper is a feminist reading of Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. It first discusses the prevailing feudal ideology, especially patriarchy, in the transitional society of the late Elizabethan e...This paper is a feminist reading of Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. It first discusses the prevailing feudal ideology, especially patriarchy, in the transitional society of the late Elizabethan era and then analyzed the heroine, Juliet, within this social context. It focuses on Juliet's brave revolt against the feudal fetters imposed on her and her strong-willed fight for individual freedom, true love and happiness in response to the Renaissance spirit.展开更多
Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or no...Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or not. Mr Ramsay represents as a patriarchal image; Mrs Ramsay stands for a typical housewife. This essay delivers how housewifery and patriarchy presents in this novel and what the solution of Lily's choice under the framework of housewifery and patriarchy.展开更多
A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the...A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the "Rose" to the debated themes,this story has been discussed before.This paper tries to analyze the three stages of Emily's struggle for love in order to represent the symbolism of the "Rose" from the perspective of feminism.It also represents the root of Emily's tragedy and the sympathy for the tragic fate of the Southern women.展开更多
Rosamond Vincy is the most beautiful woman in Middlemarch and she becomes the ideal wife in men's mind. However, her marriage ends up with failure and tragedy and it is the patriarchal restrictions which should be...Rosamond Vincy is the most beautiful woman in Middlemarch and she becomes the ideal wife in men's mind. However, her marriage ends up with failure and tragedy and it is the patriarchal restrictions which should be blamed for. By Rosamond's story, Eliot intends to expose and condemn the restrictions on women and the unjustifiable criteria used to judge women in the patriarchal society.展开更多
The novel's peculiar significance lies in its placing emphasis on the particular predicament of career intellectual women in modern society,including a depiction of those women's contradictory roles and their ...The novel's peculiar significance lies in its placing emphasis on the particular predicament of career intellectual women in modern society,including a depiction of those women's contradictory roles and their result,from which an exploration of this predicament's nature may be drawn.All the above proves that apart from the old form of oppression,career intellectual womenhave to suffer some new form by patriarchy which is difficult to overthrow.展开更多
Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can o...Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman's rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna's awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.展开更多
Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dig...Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dignity as independent human beings by refusing not only marriage of convenience,but the patriarchal values,thus fulfilling their self-seeking and selfdefinition.Beauvoir’s method after slight modifications is found to be the ultimate solution:the young girl and the young boy should be raised with the same ideology of male-female equality and friendship;then things like“male superiority”will disappear and“femininity”will really become part of human nature.展开更多
The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences tha...The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences that the female and male characters have experienced both in family and society in order to find out the root of females’oppressed status and reveal Cather’s writing in? tention—provide a possible way of improving the dilemma of women caused by capitalist ideology and the patriarchal ideology.展开更多
The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the ...The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the key to the interpretation of the poem as well as the poet ess' feminist consciousness of anti-patriarchy.展开更多
Wililiam Makepeace Thackeray portrayed two female images in his representative work Vanity Fair: Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. Through analyzing the minor status and role of women in the patriarchy society, the femin...Wililiam Makepeace Thackeray portrayed two female images in his representative work Vanity Fair: Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. Through analyzing the minor status and role of women in the patriarchy society, the feminism represented by Becky who actively tried to change her life and the mild and the kind-hearted traditional female image represented by Amelia,the paper reveals the social status and role of women in the patriarchy society.展开更多
Louisa May Alcott is an excellent American female writer of the 19th century as well as a feminist who focuses on women and their problems.Little Women,her best known novel,is about four girls' daily lives.Through...Louisa May Alcott is an excellent American female writer of the 19th century as well as a feminist who focuses on women and their problems.Little Women,her best known novel,is about four girls' daily lives.Through description of their life,Alcott disclosed the discrimination and persecution the patriarchy society of the 19th century forced on women and pointed out a road for women to fight against the patriarchy society.The thesis demonstrated Alcott's feminism viewpoint and its embodiment in Little Women through analysis of the novel's plot and the character of the four heroines.展开更多
After studying Shakespeare's works,readers will find disguise usually plays an important role in Shakespeare's comedies.From a realistic point of view,cross-dressing reveals the difference between male and fem...After studying Shakespeare's works,readers will find disguise usually plays an important role in Shakespeare's comedies.From a realistic point of view,cross-dressing reveals the difference between male and female in such a way that the temporary exchange of sex roles is a challenge to the strength of normality and the teleology of event.On the other hand,disguise offers a chance to women to subvert their social status.By disguising as men,women have been set free to do what men are always allowed to do in the patriarchal society.展开更多
According to the theory of Lacan's symbolic order, gender identity is determined by the culture that people live in.The culture is the chief determinant of women's gender and their destiny. The Woman Warrior i...According to the theory of Lacan's symbolic order, gender identity is determined by the culture that people live in.The culture is the chief determinant of women's gender and their destiny. The Woman Warrior is the autobiographical novel of Maxine Hong Kingston, in which there are different women images who live in different cultures. The this paper focuses on analyzing the tragic fate of"no name woman"who lives in traditional Chinese patriarchy culture and the hard experience of"I"who struggles between Chinese patriarchy culture and American feminism culture.展开更多
The classic characters Bronte sisters created have independent consciousness.Anne Bronte adopts first person in her masterpiece Agnes Grey,whose heroine and narrator is Agnes Grey,a same name with the book.So she can ...The classic characters Bronte sisters created have independent consciousness.Anne Bronte adopts first person in her masterpiece Agnes Grey,whose heroine and narrator is Agnes Grey,a same name with the book.So she can directly communicate with readers through her narration.Anne Bronte described an independent female with stronger ethical conception and firm resistance attitude towards the inequality and irrationality of female position in the patriarchal Victory society,which is the beginning of feminism.Agnes pursued career,love and liberty independently.展开更多
Lady Chatterley’s Lover,one of the most significant novels in English literature,has remained controversial,not only inthe times of its production,but also till now.Readers appear to split up in different sides.The a...Lady Chatterley’s Lover,one of the most significant novels in English literature,has remained controversial,not only inthe times of its production,but also till now.Readers appear to split up in different sides.The author,the intrepid sex-scene depict-er,D.H.Lawrence,has been under discussion by feminists about his own understanding of feminism.In this essay,details of thenovel have been examined,in order to both defend his viewpoint and contribution to feminism,and point out some defects and im-perfection in his knowledge of feminism.The first chapter deals with Lady Chatterley’s self-salvation through outrageous sex relationship,revealing female’s identity crisisand identity found in this novel;chapter two associates feminism with ecology,which is a methodology frequently applied by Law-rence;the last chapter discusses popular feminist view arguing against Lawrence,and discloses the limitation in his feminism.展开更多
A Rose for Emily is an excellent short story by American author William Faulkner in the 20th century.It is about the tragic fate of the aristocratic lady Emily.This paper analyses the reasons of Emily's tragedy,he...A Rose for Emily is an excellent short story by American author William Faulkner in the 20th century.It is about the tragic fate of the aristocratic lady Emily.This paper analyses the reasons of Emily's tragedy,her awakening and the failure of her revolt from a feminism perspective.展开更多
"How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing's many short stories are less mentioned or studied..."How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing's many short stories are less mentioned or studied by Chinese researchers and scholars,especially "How I Finally Lost My Heart".Therefore,this paper is intended to analyze this short story from the feminist perspective,and attempts to show the exact process of women's emotional independence as well as highlight the writer's deep concern on women's thorough liberation.展开更多
Crazy Rich Asians,Kevin Kwan’s famous work,depicts four female protagonists in a round way.From feminist perspec-tive,Kevin Kwan reveals women’s hard status today and further explores the hope to realize gender equa...Crazy Rich Asians,Kevin Kwan’s famous work,depicts four female protagonists in a round way.From feminist perspec-tive,Kevin Kwan reveals women’s hard status today and further explores the hope to realize gender equality through establishing afemale model Rachel,Chu.The feminist interpretation of this novel is significant for people to exam the gender issue nowadays andfigure out that education and the progress of the society are the main light for gender equality.展开更多
文摘An informal survey revealed that graduate students presented with Shakespeare's works felt academically unfit and powerless.These student-teacher-text power relationships parallel the power relationships between the dominant patriarchy and female characters in'Othello'-Desdemona,Emilia,and Bianca.Both main characters contribute to the creation of the new or der.The writer wants to look briefly at a Shakespearean couple outside Othello as an attempt at alternative model for distributing power.
文摘American animation How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2, loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by American Dreamworks Animation, were released separately in 2010 and 2014. Those two animated films are set in a fictional Viking world and focusing on the experiences and adventures of protagonist Hiccup. Even though these two films are concerned with dragons, this paper discusses about the gendered stereotype under white patriarchy from the perspective of Foucault's power discourse theory. It mainly studies gendered stereotype and white patriarchal construction, revealing that the American animation, based on mass deception, is an evil machine to lead Chinese audiences to experience a complicated process to struggle with their own beliefs, values, ideas and hope.
文摘This paper is a feminist reading of Shakespeare's dramatic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. It first discusses the prevailing feudal ideology, especially patriarchy, in the transitional society of the late Elizabethan era and then analyzed the heroine, Juliet, within this social context. It focuses on Juliet's brave revolt against the feudal fetters imposed on her and her strong-willed fight for individual freedom, true love and happiness in response to the Renaissance spirit.
文摘Virginia Woolf is represented as a forerunner writer of stream of consciousness. To the Lighthouse is her most wellknown biographical novel, which probes a story that whether the Ramsays can go to the lighthouse or not. Mr Ramsay represents as a patriarchal image; Mrs Ramsay stands for a typical housewife. This essay delivers how housewifery and patriarchy presents in this novel and what the solution of Lily's choice under the framework of housewifery and patriarchy.
文摘A Rose for Emily is one of William Faulkner's most famous short stories.Through the representing of patriarchy influence on Emily,Faulkner shows his readers Emily's tragic life.From the diverse meanings of the "Rose" to the debated themes,this story has been discussed before.This paper tries to analyze the three stages of Emily's struggle for love in order to represent the symbolism of the "Rose" from the perspective of feminism.It also represents the root of Emily's tragedy and the sympathy for the tragic fate of the Southern women.
文摘Rosamond Vincy is the most beautiful woman in Middlemarch and she becomes the ideal wife in men's mind. However, her marriage ends up with failure and tragedy and it is the patriarchal restrictions which should be blamed for. By Rosamond's story, Eliot intends to expose and condemn the restrictions on women and the unjustifiable criteria used to judge women in the patriarchal society.
文摘The novel's peculiar significance lies in its placing emphasis on the particular predicament of career intellectual women in modern society,including a depiction of those women's contradictory roles and their result,from which an exploration of this predicament's nature may be drawn.All the above proves that apart from the old form of oppression,career intellectual womenhave to suffer some new form by patriarchy which is difficult to overthrow.
文摘Kate Chopin's (1899- ) The Awakening gives an account of Edna Pontellie's awakening in soul and body and sing highly of her courage to pursue freedom and independence. But in a patriarchal society, women can only exist subordinate to men and any woman's rebellion is to be defeated. Through a detailed analysis of the process of Edna's awakening, it argues that Edna is not awakened but disillusioned, and she still lives under the heavy patriarchal shackles.
文摘Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dignity as independent human beings by refusing not only marriage of convenience,but the patriarchal values,thus fulfilling their self-seeking and selfdefinition.Beauvoir’s method after slight modifications is found to be the ultimate solution:the young girl and the young boy should be raised with the same ideology of male-female equality and friendship;then things like“male superiority”will disappear and“femininity”will really become part of human nature.
文摘The Song of the Lark tells the story of young girl Thea who doesn’t give up and achieves her wish when faced with all sorts of setbacks. Based on the Marxist feminism, this paper is going to study the differences that the female and male characters have experienced both in family and society in order to find out the root of females’oppressed status and reveal Cather’s writing in? tention—provide a possible way of improving the dilemma of women caused by capitalist ideology and the patriarchal ideology.
文摘The interpretation of Sylvia Plath' s representative work Daddy is always being controversial.The poem involves many social and historical issues and various images,among which the image " Daddy" is the key to the interpretation of the poem as well as the poet ess' feminist consciousness of anti-patriarchy.
文摘Wililiam Makepeace Thackeray portrayed two female images in his representative work Vanity Fair: Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. Through analyzing the minor status and role of women in the patriarchy society, the feminism represented by Becky who actively tried to change her life and the mild and the kind-hearted traditional female image represented by Amelia,the paper reveals the social status and role of women in the patriarchy society.
文摘Louisa May Alcott is an excellent American female writer of the 19th century as well as a feminist who focuses on women and their problems.Little Women,her best known novel,is about four girls' daily lives.Through description of their life,Alcott disclosed the discrimination and persecution the patriarchy society of the 19th century forced on women and pointed out a road for women to fight against the patriarchy society.The thesis demonstrated Alcott's feminism viewpoint and its embodiment in Little Women through analysis of the novel's plot and the character of the four heroines.
文摘After studying Shakespeare's works,readers will find disguise usually plays an important role in Shakespeare's comedies.From a realistic point of view,cross-dressing reveals the difference between male and female in such a way that the temporary exchange of sex roles is a challenge to the strength of normality and the teleology of event.On the other hand,disguise offers a chance to women to subvert their social status.By disguising as men,women have been set free to do what men are always allowed to do in the patriarchal society.
文摘According to the theory of Lacan's symbolic order, gender identity is determined by the culture that people live in.The culture is the chief determinant of women's gender and their destiny. The Woman Warrior is the autobiographical novel of Maxine Hong Kingston, in which there are different women images who live in different cultures. The this paper focuses on analyzing the tragic fate of"no name woman"who lives in traditional Chinese patriarchy culture and the hard experience of"I"who struggles between Chinese patriarchy culture and American feminism culture.
文摘The classic characters Bronte sisters created have independent consciousness.Anne Bronte adopts first person in her masterpiece Agnes Grey,whose heroine and narrator is Agnes Grey,a same name with the book.So she can directly communicate with readers through her narration.Anne Bronte described an independent female with stronger ethical conception and firm resistance attitude towards the inequality and irrationality of female position in the patriarchal Victory society,which is the beginning of feminism.Agnes pursued career,love and liberty independently.
文摘Lady Chatterley’s Lover,one of the most significant novels in English literature,has remained controversial,not only inthe times of its production,but also till now.Readers appear to split up in different sides.The author,the intrepid sex-scene depict-er,D.H.Lawrence,has been under discussion by feminists about his own understanding of feminism.In this essay,details of thenovel have been examined,in order to both defend his viewpoint and contribution to feminism,and point out some defects and im-perfection in his knowledge of feminism.The first chapter deals with Lady Chatterley’s self-salvation through outrageous sex relationship,revealing female’s identity crisisand identity found in this novel;chapter two associates feminism with ecology,which is a methodology frequently applied by Law-rence;the last chapter discusses popular feminist view arguing against Lawrence,and discloses the limitation in his feminism.
文摘A Rose for Emily is an excellent short story by American author William Faulkner in the 20th century.It is about the tragic fate of the aristocratic lady Emily.This paper analyses the reasons of Emily's tragedy,her awakening and the failure of her revolt from a feminism perspective.
文摘"How I Finally Lost My Heart" is a short story written by Doris Lessing,the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature.Unlike her novels,Doris Lessing's many short stories are less mentioned or studied by Chinese researchers and scholars,especially "How I Finally Lost My Heart".Therefore,this paper is intended to analyze this short story from the feminist perspective,and attempts to show the exact process of women's emotional independence as well as highlight the writer's deep concern on women's thorough liberation.
文摘Crazy Rich Asians,Kevin Kwan’s famous work,depicts four female protagonists in a round way.From feminist perspec-tive,Kevin Kwan reveals women’s hard status today and further explores the hope to realize gender equality through establishing afemale model Rachel,Chu.The feminist interpretation of this novel is significant for people to exam the gender issue nowadays andfigure out that education and the progress of the society are the main light for gender equality.
