摘要近年来，现代女性生存状况引起了越来越多学者的关注。本文通过对比《觉醒》和《到十九号房间去》的两位女主人公的觉醒的历程、原因以及最终结果，旨在发现在女权运动的不同时代，女性在爱情、婚姻、家庭生活、个人追求及所处的社会大环境等方面的变化情况。此外，本文还探讨各阶段女性主义思想发展的局限及女性主义发展的意义，以进一步探讨在当今社会，帮助现代女性走出的生存困境的可能性及方法。87799

毕业论文关键词  女性生存 觉醒  自由  自我

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Title   Female survival: A comparative study of The Awakening and To Room Nineteen 

Abstract In recent years, more and more attention is paid to the living conditions of modern women。 By comparing the road to awakening, reasons for awakening and results of awakening in The Awakening and To Room Nineteen, this thesis intends to find changes in women's love, marriage, family life, personal pursuit and social living environment in different eras。  Significance and limitations of feminist movement are also mentioned with the purpose of further exploring possibilities and ways to help modern women out of their living dilemma nowadays。 源-于,优Y尔E论W文.网wwW.yOueRw.com 原文+QQ752018`766

Keywords  female survival  awakening  freedom  selfhood

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

1。1Kate Chopin and The Awakening 1

1。2Doris Lessing and To Room Nineteen 2

2 Literature Review 3

2。1 The Study of Images 3

2。2 The Study of Themes 4

3。 The Road to Awakening 5

3。1 Edna 6

3。2 Susan 7

4 Reasons for Heroines’ Awakening 8

4。1 External Factors 8

4。2 Internal Factors 11

5 Results of Heroines’ Awakening 12

5。1 Failure 12

5。2 Death 13

Conclusion 16

Acknowledgements 18

References 19From+优`尔^文W网wWw.YouErw.com 加QQ75201^8766

1  Introduction

The Awakening and To Room Nineteen were written by American feminist writer, Kate Chopin in the 1890s and British feminist writer, Doris Lessing in the 1960s, respectively。 In two works, heroines had similar experiences, from being aware of freedom, seeking for independence to the disillusionment of pursuit and then accepted the same tragic ending peacefully although the stories have different plots, characters and social environments。 This paper reveals the realistic implications behind the tragedy by making a comparative analysis of the road to awakening, the reasons for awakening and the results of awakening。论文网

1。1 Kate Chopin and The Awakening

Since ancient times, with the emergence of new things, there come questions。 But with the times and people's concept changing, these works can be brought to light again。 American writer Kate Chopin (185l - 1904) is typical of this。 Her last work, The Awakening, was completed on the eve of the nineteenth century when the first climax of the feminist movement in the United States emerged。 Once published ,the book was faced with questions and denouncement and could not be accepted by people of that time。 The main reason was that the protagonist of the book, Edna, was created differently, a New Woman and the novel described women's desire to sex in a straightforward way, which violated the traditional norms for women’s behaviors。 She, therefore, was considered depraved and immoral。 Fortunately, with the rise of the feminist movement and the awakening of female consciousness, many women writers began to question and reshape the images of women who earned thousands of years of notoriety in the male-dominated society and the 19th-century masterpiece on feminism gets more and more recognition and appreciation not only from literary scholars but also other fields after being relegated to limbo for nearly half century。 It is regarded as “Madame Bovary of America”, but as to the reflection of women's independent personality, self realization as well as the awakening of sexual consciousness, The Awakening is far better than the latter(Kan, 2005)。文献综述