英国留学生作业：艾迪《在我弥留之际》中的女权主义研究

women form different periods of history. Firstly, it is Liberal Feminist whose representatives are Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects and John Stuart Mill, who composed The Subjection of Women, and they hold the concept originated in the Enlightenment that female also have rationality and should enjoy the same opportunity to take part in the political life. Secondly, there is Marxist Feminism, which is represented by Friedrich Engels and August Bebel, the writer of Women under Socialism and they firmly believe that the unfair between male and is embodied in their financial discrepancy. Thirdly, Kate Millett expressed in Sexual Politics that the gender system is the root cause of female’s subordinate position, and she calls it the Radical Feminism. Fourthly, the Socialist feminism represented by Juliet Mitchell in Woman: the Longest Revolution claims that many factors lead to female’s current downtrodden situation.

1.3 Faulknerian Women

Faulkner has afforded the readers a whole gallery of vivid portraits of the Southern women of, e.g. Caddy in The Sound and the Fury, Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying,TempleDrakein Sanctuary and Miss Emily in A Rose for Emily etc al. These people from different classes and races hold the different peculiarities. Therefore, Faulkner’s works have become the material of feminism study of the late 1960s. Just as Jay Martin indicates in Faulkner’s Male Commedia “Faulkner grew up in a world of women.” Throughout Faulkner’s life, and just as with war, Faulkner was a student of feminine thought, learning much from the women who surrounded him such as his wife and mother, as well as from his readings.

Ⅱ. Feminism Reflected from Addie’s birth determination

“It is in maternity that woman fulfils her physiological destiny; it is her natural ‘calling’, since her whole organic structure is adapted for the perpetuation of the species.” (Beauvoir 147).What will leave if the maternity spoils? As the main heroin in As I Lay Dying, Addie, both the wife and the mother, catches a lot of concentration. She sets a dismal tone for the depiction of her living and presumably of her dying, “I know that living is terrible and that was the answer to it”, which likewise has been interpreted as a testament to the isolation of being a mother and a wife she allegedly feels by many critics. Because of her missing a sense of connection with others, Addie lives a formidable life. She is always trying to prove her existence, yet fails. Accordingly, if we trace Addie’s psychology, we may find out that children are just some certain matters unexpectedly intruding into her silence and thus make her living even more terrible. One of the unexpected here will be dissected is ——Darl, who is endowed the most tragic color by William Faulkner in As I Lay Dying, is the soul of the story.

Darl has nineteen of the fifty-nine segments, which is twice as many as Vardaman’s, the second largest amount, and it is he who helps us to perceive Faulkner’s perplexing multiple view point together with nineteen narrators’ interior monologu