Abstract In British literature, desert island literature, with its distinctive glamour, plays a significant role in the literary history。 With the development of feminist literary criticism, the female characters have attracted more and more attention。 By combining cultural and textual analyses, the thesis will detailedly analyze the absence of women in British desert island literature from three classical novels in three centuries which are respectively Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe in the 18th century, The Coral Island by R。 M。 Ballantyne in the 19th century, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding in the 20th century, to explore the marginalization of women's status and male chauvinism as well as the gender imbalance that leads to social disharmony。 And through the analysis of female absence in desert island literature, the thesis will reach a conclusion on the importance of gender equality in modern society。75659

Key words: British desert island literature; the absence of women; obinson Crusoe; The Coral Island; Lord of the Flies

摘要在英国文坛，荒岛文学以其独特的魅力在文学史上占据了非常重要的一席之地。而随着女性zhuyi文学批评的发展，文学中的女性形象也越来越受到关注。本文以18世纪丹尼尔•笛福所著的《鲁滨逊漂流记》、19世纪罗伯特•迈克尔•巴兰坦的《珊瑚岛》及20世纪威廉•戈尔丁的《蝇王》为例，通过文化和文本分析结合的方法，分别对这三个世纪的三部经典荒岛作品中的女性形象的缺失进行分析，以探讨女性地位的边缘化和男权zhuyi思想，以及两性关系不和谐所导致的社会的不和谐。并且，通过分析荒岛文学中的女性缺失，本文将总结得出男女平等在当今社会的重要性。

毕业论文关键词：英国荒岛文学；女性缺失；《鲁滨逊漂流记》；《珊瑚岛》；《蝇王》

Contents

1。 Introduction1

2。 Literature Review1

3。 British Desert Island Literature 。3

3。1 The concept and features of desert island literature3

3。2 The origin and development of desert island literature。5

4。 The Absence of Women in British Island Literature。6

4。1 Robinson Crusoe。7

4。2 The Coral Island。10

4。3 Lord of the Flies12

5。 The Connections between These Three works。15

6。 Conclusion15

Works Cited17

1。 Introduction 

In British literature history, there appear a series of literary works set on desert islands。 In these works, authors purposely put the protagonists on isolated islands and take them as story backgrounds, expressing the themes。 And this kind of works is   called desert island literature。 The desert islands are not only the external condition stories depend on but also the critical core of plot development。 The narrative mode of this kind of literature always abides by the principle of “trilogy”- being trapped, then taking adventures and finally getting rescued。 Being cut off from the outside world provides the characters in the works with a great place to toughen up both physically and mentally without constraints of law, morality and civilization。 And the experience of exploring in a closed and independent world highlights living situations and spiritual world of people in different times and conveys different themes。 

Among various distinctive and unique features of desert island literature, the absence of females is undoubtedly the most outstanding one。 If we take a sweeping view on desert island literature, female characters can be hardly found。 So it’s not hard to see that British desert island literature more or less carries male-chauvinistic color since its birth。 Somewhat extreme as it seems to be to generally criticize traditional desert island literary writers as jingoists, it’s indeed a typical phenomenon that females are repressed, or even absent in these literary works。 In this thesis, the author will concretely analyze the absence of females in British desert island literature from three classical novels in different times; they are respectively Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe in the 18th century, Coral Island by R。 M。 Ballantyne in the 19th century, and Lord of Flies by William Golding in the 20th century。