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新女性形象:即爱琴海图像妇女常见的定型突破

日期:2018年01月27日 编辑:ad201708310846561631 作者:无忧论文网 点击次数:1397
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论文地区:中国 论文语种:English 论文用途:硕士课程论文 Master Assignment
Abstract

The Age of Innocence is written by female writer-Edith Wharton in the later part of life, a masterpiece created after her profound understanding of the life and the world. In addition, it seems to me that Edith attempts to immerse herself in the novel, which can be found in terms of the experience and personal thought of the heroine--- Ellen Olenska. Then it is not entirely groundless to regard the heroine as the embodiment of the author. However, many readers simply take on the story as a romantic affair of the upper class in the old New York after a quick skim of this fiction, instead of consulting the background of that age and the experience of the writer in detail. It is nothing new to mistake Ellen just by superficial analysis toward the image of the heroine. This paper attempts to highly praise the new woman image of Ellen, through a sharp comparison of two distinct different female figures in the novel and a comprehensive analysis of the heroine’s untraditional behavior in terms of speech, association, and other respects, after a clear grasp of the writer's experiences and the background of the age.

Keywords: the new woman   the traditional woman   the freedom of marriage   the freedom of speech

中文摘要

纯真年帮写于女性作家-伊迪丝•华顿的老年阶段,是作者对人生有着最透彻感悟,对世界有着最通透理解后的杰出作品。而且,在我看来,作者在纯真年代中,将其自身经历和个人思想融入了女主角艾伦身上.从而,我认为将其视为作者的化身,绝不会有所唐突。然而,历来许多读者在粗略涉猎这本书时,由于缺乏对那个年代以及作者遭遇的深刻理解,仅将其视为老纽约上流社会的一段风流韵事,通过对女主角形象的浅层性解读,造成对艾伦的质疑和误解,这种现象多不甚数。本文试图就作者的经历和时代的背景入手,通过对文中两位截然不同的女性角色进行对比,通过对女主角言行举止等多方面突破传统女性形象的细节进行全面剖析,高度肯定和颂扬了女主角艾伦的新女性形象。


Introduction


the Age of Innocence ,making Edith Wharton as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921, has special status and value in the literature history (Nelson & Randy F., 1981). The story was set in the upper class of New York City in the late 1870s and early 1880s. Newland Archer, a young and gentle attorney, who grows up with feudal ethical code, is greatly looking forward to marrying a highly sheltered and beautiful maiden ---May Welland, from the same class. Yet he begins to query his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic and special cousin. Ellen, suffering a wrong marriage with an absurd and fallen count, has gone back to hometown from Europe and resolutely decided to break away from a loveless marriage. Because her behavior does not conform to customs of the upper class community, she is regarded as a deviant chippie and scorned by relatives. However, Newland is deeply attracted to her freedom and original insights, significantly different with the routine and dull May nurtured by the old aristocratic. In the meantime, Ellen also surrenders her heart to the sincere and enthusiastic lawyer. Awed by the traditions and social mores, Newland and May still hold an early wedding at last. After marriage, Newland has growing feelings of falling into the trap of traditional marriage and begins to meet frequently with Ellen,even plans to escape from New York with Ellen, but May’s pregnancy finally urges Ellen to end the wrong relationship with Newland. Since then, Newland begins to carry out his responsibility for the family and the country trustily. It was not until years later, May died of disease, and when Newland travels with the eldest son in France, he has an opportunity to meet Ellen, but he losses the courage and desire to enter the door. On the surface, the Age of Innocence seems to be a romantic affair of the upper class in the old New York; as a matter of fact, it is a book equipped with profound social realistic meaning, reflecting American typical characteristics of the times in the late 19th century(Nowlin & Michael,2004).

Edith Wharton: the prototype of Ellen Olenska
The new woman:Challenge to the traditional feminine

Conclusion


In the later 19th and early 20th century, the United States begins to enter an economic boom after suffering the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery and westward movement. Despite of