The Reversal of The Traditional Female Roles in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband Abstract In late 19th century, feminism arose in the Great Britain。 Married women got the right to own property in the name of themselves。 They desired to earn a place in public society and to take part in political affairs。 In the play, An Ideal Husband of Oscar Wilde, women characters from upper class own a huge amount of money。 Some of them are obsessed in attending social engagements and dinner-parties, abandon themselves in a self-indulgent pursuit of pleasure。 Mrs。 Cheveley, for example, accumulates her wealth through two marriages, and tries to make a huge fortune by threatening Robert Chiltern to sell nation interest。 Lady Chiltern, on the contrary, as a perfect example of morality for women in upper class, transforms her perfect moral ideal into a weapon and grabs dominance in home。 Her love and worship to her husband fix him in a perfect image of an ideal husband, thus deprives his free of showing his weakness and deprives his right of being a true human being with tears and fears。 Under the circumstance of a male-dominant society, woman can not achieve their self-worth and desire of power in a decent and proper way。 As a result, they fight with men who have wealth and power in a distorted or even despicable way in order to realize their lust for power and to achieve their self-worth as a person with intelligence and determination。76278

Key Words: feminism; male-dominant society; morality; humanity

王尔德在《理想丈夫》中对传统女性角色的颠覆

摘要十九世纪晚期，女性zhuyi在英国兴起。已婚妇女不仅获得了以个人名义拥有财产的权利，更进一步谋求在公共社会和政治领域拥有相应的话语权。在王尔德的喜剧《理想丈夫》中，作者塑造了一批富有个性特点的英国上层社会女性角色。她们中的一些人拥有巨额财富并且沉迷于物质享乐和社交活动，更有甚者，例如谢弗利夫人，依靠美色从婚姻关系中积累财富和地位，并且利用自己掌握的丑闻机密，威胁议会成员出卖国家利益，以攫取个人利益。而与之相对的是，奇尔顿太太作为上流社会女性的道德楷模，以她至高无上的道德理想为武器，在家庭中争夺主导权。她对丈夫的爱慕崇拜是一种心灵支持，但更是一个情感枷锁，将她的丈夫禁锢在完美无瑕的理想丈夫角色中，失去了展现真实人性的权利和自由。在一个男权主导的社会中，女性主体意识的觉醒和她们对权力的追求无法通过正当的途径实现，于是她们只能通过扭曲的方式，例如对那些拥有财富和权力的男性进行道德绑架甚至卑鄙胁迫，挤压男性的生存空间，以此来达成她们对实现自我价值和获得财富与权力的目标。

毕业论文关键词：女性zhuyi；男权社会；道德；人性

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 2

3。 Analysis of Main Characters in An Ideal Husband 3

3。1 Elder women from upper class: living as parasites 3

3。2 Lady Chiltern: a perfect moral example 3

3。3 Mrs。 Cheveley: the incarnation of evil 5

3。4 Sir Robert Chiltern and Viscount Goring: men with weakness and prejudice 7

3。5 Mabel Chiltern: a perfect image as an ideal wife and an independent modern woman 8

4。 Conclusion 9

References 10