An Analysis of Dimensions from the Perspective of Feminism_英语论文

摘要

爱丽丝·芒罗是加拿大著名的女性作家，曾以短篇小说集《你以为你是谁》获得2013年诺贝尔文学奖。本文选取爱丽丝·门罗后期的短篇小说集《幸福过了头》的第一篇《多维的世界》，从女性主义视域出发，探讨女主人公多丽女性意识的觉醒过程。在社会生活中，女性大多数活在男性决定的标准和价值之下，尤其是生活在家庭中的女性。她们从空间到身体，再到精神都受到男性不同程度上的控制和压迫。多丽正是长期活在丈夫的控制与压迫之下，她寻求自我认可和独立的过程复杂而且艰难。本文将通过分析多丽在经历失去孩子，丈夫被捕等一系列重大生活变故后是如何一步一步从空间到身体，最后到精神摆脱丈夫的多方面控制，以解读其实现女性自我认可和女性意识成熟的过程。

关键词：女性主义  控制  压迫  女性意识

Abstract

Alice Munro, a famous female writer of Canada, has won the Nobel Price for Literature with the collection of short stories Who Do You Think You Are in 2013. Dimensions is the first story of Munro’s later collection Too Much Happiness. This thesis aims to discuss the process of the awareness of female consciousness of the heroine, Doree, from the perspective of feminism. In social life, most women live under the standards and values which are determined by men, especially women who live in family. They are controlled and oppressed by men in varying degrees, from space to body, and to spirit. Doree has been living under the control and oppression of her husband for a long time, and the process that she searches for self-identification and independence is complex and difficult. The paper is going to interpret this process by means of analyzing how she gets rid of her husband’s control step by step from space to body, then to spirit after going through some significant misfortune such as losing her children and her husband being arrested.

Key words: Feminism  control  oppression  Female Consciousness

Contents

Chapter One  Introduction 1

1.1  A Brief Introduction to Alice Munro and Her Works 1

1.2  A Brief Introduction to Dimensions 2

1.3  Purpose and Structure of The Thesis 3

Chapter Two  Literature Review 4

2.1  Introduction 4

2.2  The Feminist Approach 4

2.3  The Female Image 5

2.4  Summary 6

Chapter Three  Theoretical Framework: Feminism 7

3.1  Introduction 7

3.2  Feminism for Power 7

3.3  Feminism for Equality and Freedom 8

3.4  Summary 10

Chapter Four  A Feminist Study on Dimensions 11

4.1  Introduction 11

4.2  Life under the Control from Lloyd 11

4.2.1 The Control of Space 11

4.2.2 The Control of Body 12

4.2.3 The Control of Spirit 13

4.3  The Awareness of Female Self-consciousness 14

4.4  Hesitation and Struggle 15

4.4.1 Life in the Comfort Inn 15

4.4.2 The Change of Appearance 16

4.4.3 Psychological Dependence on Lloyd 17

4.5  Disillusion and Self-liberation 18

Chapter Five  Conclusion 20

Bibliography

Acknowledgements