摘要：

在东西方的文学国度里，简•奥斯汀和张爱玲分别代表了两个无法逾越的高度。她们手握如椽大笔，饱蘸笔墨，或诙谐或苍凉地书写着各自时代女性最本真的生存姿态。她们各自代表作《傲慢与偏见》和《倾城之恋》自出版以来受到读者和文学评论者的广泛关注和欢迎。笔者从分析《傲慢与偏见》和《倾城之恋》女主人公出发，着重关注两位作家作品中反映的女性意识差异。身处静好年岁的奥斯汀不怨愤，不反抗，透彻豁达地描摹彼时女性生存的姿态，笔底多是欣悦与希望；而世纪之后的张爱玲，斜倚乱世孤岛的藩篱，清醒痛心，于漠然之中鞭挞俗世加之女性的沉重桎梏，却无力找到走出窘境的出路，笔底尽是虚无与荒凉。

关键词：简•奥斯汀；张爱玲；女性意识;欣悦；荒凉

Abstract:

Jane Austen and Eileen Chang mark two heights which are hard to be surmounted in the western and eastern literary kingdoms. They were two of those who possessed the gift of depicting the part of world they chose exactly as it was and casting light upon women’s authentic living conditions of their times with their quill pens dripping either with humor or wilderness. As a result of such significance, literary scholars and researchers have never ceased to make efforts to interpret and reinterpret their works in the hope of throwing a bit light upon the immortal question of living. Their representative works --- Pride and Prejudice and Love in a Fallen City --- have been enjoying enormous popularity since their publication. By analyzing the two heroines in their representative works --- Elizabeth Bennet and Bai Liusu, the thesis focuses on the differences of feminine consciousness reflected in their works. Born into a time of peace and prosperity, Jane Austen showed no hatred or revolt in her writings. Despite being anything but a rebel, she was definitely a realist by employing her pen to portray the women’s authentic living conditions of her time. Pleasantness and hope usually dominate her writings; whereas Eileen Chang, a century later than Austen, though wide awake about the plight women were forced into by the unreasonable social conventionalities, she couldn’t find a path out of it. Nothingness and desolation prevail in her writings.

Key words: Jane Austen; Eileen Chang; feminine consciousness; pleasantness; desolation