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摘 要美国作家威廉•福克纳的作品《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》被认为是美国南方小说文学的代表作。这篇文章描写了爱米丽小姐的悲剧生活,一个典型的南方女人受害于南方的传统系统和父权制。在这个小说中,作者运用了许多写作风格,包括女权主义,来描述艾米丽的主要性格特点。本文主要从女权主义角度分析艾米丽的悲剧人生，简要介绍了作者威廉•福克纳和他的作品《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》，女权主义和女权主义运动及艾米丽的性格特点，并指出艾米丽悲剧人生的原因。20946
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Abstract
A Rose for Emily written by American writer, William Faulkner, is regarded as the representative of Southern fiction in America literature. The story is about Miss Emily’s tragic life, it describes a typical southern woman victimized by the conventional system of the South and by patriarchy. In this fiction, the author used many styles, including feminism, to describe the main character-Emily Grierson. This paper mainly analyzes Emily’s tragic life from a feminist perspective. It introduces William Faulkner and his fiction A Rose for Emily briefly, feminism and feminist movements, the characters of Emily and the reasons of her tragic life.
Key words: feminism; patriarchy; Emily; tragedy; character
A Feminist Interpretation of A Rose for Emily
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Feminism 2
2.1 The Definitions of Feminism and Feminist Movements 2
2.2 The History of Feminist Movements 4
Ⅲ. The Characters of Emily 5
Ⅳ. The Reasons for Emily’sTragedy 7
4.1 The Patriarchal Oppression 8
4.2 The Unequal Love Concept 10
4.3 The Conventional System of the South 12
V. Conclusion 13
Bibliography 15
Acknowledgements 16
I. Introduction
William Faulkner, the author of A Rose for Emily, was a very famous and distinguished writer in 20th century American literature. He was born and lived in the South, which greatly influenced his works. Most of his stories describe the people and their lives in the South. And the South appeared the literary glories of “the South Renaissance”, which was often called “the literary desert” (William 56). He invented a county and a town in his imagination, and he wrote about society of the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising ambitious, unscrupulous class of “poor whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them. Faulkner is a representative of South Literature in the United States. He wrote 19 long novels and more than 100 short stories in his life. His most famous long novel named The Sound and the Fury, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize (Warren 7). Besides this, his short stories draw the attention of the critics to human history. This paper will regard his short story A Rose for Emily as the objective of study.
Published in 1930, A Rose for Emily was one of the best known and the most widely read novels among William Faulkner’s fiction. The story took place in a mythical town that William Faulkner called Jefferson, Mississippi. The story happened during the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the town was learning to live with the South’s loss in the Civil War and the consequent dismantling of the slavery-based society that had preceded it. Because of their loss in the Civil War, the people in the south led poor lives. Especially the white people, their lives suddenly became poor because most of the slaves went to the North to work for the northern industry. Therefore the white people could not get accustomed to the life changes in a short time, but they still pretended to be noble and kept their families’ dignity.