英美文学作品中的女性形象研究外文文献翻译

文献出处: Allison D. The research on female image in British and American literature [J]. Feminist Formations, 2016, 1(5), 62-76.

原文

The research on female image in British and American literature

Allison D

Abstract

British and American modern literary works created many images of women, in America and Britain in the gallery of modern literature and art, become the one unique. These female characters in literary works have different background and experience of the writer, present a different spirit and personality characteristics. At the same time, on each of the characters, also with the cultural background of the era and social customs. Through reading the female image of modern British and American literature, for us to better understand that an era and the modern American and British women is of great significance. Modern British and American literary works created a large female image give time characteristics, unique as a female image of the period.

Keywords: Modern times; British and American literature; Female image

1 The evolution of the female image

We can trace the origin of the earliest women's literature image back to ancient Greek and Roman literature, then, have a medieval knight love, from the proud lady to up-to-datedness or oppression of women, the pursuit of individuality liberation from the Renaissance to the romantic period new female independent personality, the pursuit of equality, to the period of realism emphasizes self-awareness of women, the whole is also a history of women's development and growth. In these literary works, with the development of the society and ideological progress, female image more and more rich, also more and more independent personality. Interpretation of women in literary history, it is in a better understanding of the female's woes, history of the growth and maturity.

1.1 The renaissance period

The Renaissance is British and American literature history a great liberation of

human thought. During this period, people's self-consciousness awakening, especially women, thousands of years in the discipline of the shackles of feudal ideas, finally got a personality the great liberation of thought. Therefore, women in this period, simple is good, loyal to love, has strong against tradition, theological ideology, and even many senators, miss also brave enough to break the bondage of family to pursue their own ideal love.

The feminine features of this period, has a good performance in Shakespeare's works. In Shakespeare's works, his basic shape on the front of the image of women is kind, sincere, and beautiful and other characteristics, in order to love, can give up everything, boldly with social, family resistance. The most typical example is for the people of the world are familiar with "Romeo and Juliet”. In order to pursue their own love, Juliet can put your own family feuds aside, can give up his life for his lover. On Juliet, reflected the typical European Renaissance period women pursuit of freedom of marriage the personality characteristics of love, so much so that many years later, when Juliet's image, is still standing in the world as another name for young men and women love literature and art gallery. Women in this period, however, are not pure, beautiful, such as Juliet loyalty to the new woman of love. As a typical form of opposite, the Renaissance liberated humanity, also make some people go to the extreme desire to indulge. Performance in Shakespeare's works, which is the lady Macbeth, Macbeth general in King Lear. These women have high social status and great freedom, their behavior rather than the pursuit of free love, but a kind of human nature, even under the huge ambition, under the drive of the greedy desire, they will be very ugly in human nature and immortality. They use their own rights and status, to indulge oneself follow one's inclination sly, to drown in the sea of desire, cannot extricate oneself, also do not want to extricate themselves.

1.2 The romantic period

Experienced a Renaissance humanism thought liberation, to enter at the end of the 18th century early 19th century, the bourgeoisie to rise on the European continent, profoundly affected the change of humanistic thought. The emergence of a large number of independent women writers, add a series of rich image three-dimensional