伍尔芙《一个人的房间》读书报告——女性主义
《一间自己的房子》中女性主义思想探析
《一间自己的房子》中女性主义思想探析作者:徐阳平来源:《文学教育·中旬版》2014年第06期[摘要] 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫是20世纪最重要的小说家之一。
作为意识流小说的主要代表和西方女性主义的先驱,评论界对她的关注持续不衰。
《一间自己的房间》是伍尔夫意识流手法的代表作,作品清晰的表现了人类的主观情感世界。
在伍尔夫看来,男权社会中强大的男性主义氛围让女性身上的自我意识逐渐消失,女性的价值标准在男性价值标准的影响下出现了潜移默化的异化;同时伍尔夫从物质空间与精神空间两个方面对女性写作空间的构建进行了思考与论述。
本文以《一间自己的房间》中所体现的女性主义思想为研究方向,对这两方面的内容做出了探讨。
[关键词] 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫;女性主义;自我异化;写作空间一、弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女性主义思想伍尔夫所生活的时代正直西方新旧妇女运动的转型期,她着重于从思想文化层面来反拨父权制的文化霸权,表现在文学方面就是寻求和营建与女性作家性别身份相吻合的文学话语方式。
作为一个具有明确的女性意识追求的现代作家,伍尔夫在西方延续了几个世纪的文学的男性性别存在给女性作家所造成的约束是极为敏感的,她认为传统小说中的语言是男性的语言,小说的传统形式也是由男性根据自己的需要指定,并不适合女性使用。
正是在这样的背景下,使得伍尔夫在自己的创作中总是有意识地寻求并营建一种新的文学标准,以求更准确、更生动的表达文学中应包含的女性身份特色。
在当时的整个现实条件下,传统将女人固定在某些条条框框中,女人到了一定的年龄就要为整个家庭付出一切,这几乎占据了女人一生的经历,她们在经济上无法独立,更没有相应的社会地位。
女性作家在当时这种背景下进行文学创作时,条件十分恶劣,没有自己的私人写作空间,创作思路不时被打断。
因此,伍尔夫提出了一系列构建女性自己的写作传统、写作方法,女性应该拥有属于自己的物质、精神空间,用女性自己的话语方式进行创作。
解析《一间自己的房间》中的女权主义
解析《一间自己的房间》中的女权主义内容摘要:伍尔夫是蜚身世界文坛的英国女作家,同时也是西方女权主义的先驱者,一位超越时代的女性主义思想家。
一间自己的房间是以作者两次在剑桥大学作的以‘妇女与小说’为题的演讲为基础整理而成的,是他主张女权运动的一本名著同时也是最早在文学领域展开了对父权文化的清算的作品,被誉为西方女权主义运动的宣言,文中她对父权制文化对女性的压抑进行了严厉的批判,肯定了被父权社会拒绝的女性文学传统的存在,为女性写作找到了一个历史支撑点。
本文旨在通过伍尔夫作品的分析,以妇女与小说这两大主题为线索,解析伍尔夫对女权主义的思想在文中的展现。
关键词:女权主义双性同体女性文学The Feminism in A Room of One’s OwnB.A candidate: Jiang Jiaqin Supervisor: Feng LiAbstract:Woolf is one of the authoresses in Great Britain who was famous in the world literary world, at the same time she is also a precursor of the feminist in west, a feminist thinker who was in advance of the age in which she lived. The book A Room of One’s Own was based on a series of lectures Woolf had delivered in Cambridge University which were on the topic of women and fiction. It’s a famous masterpiece in which she protest feminism as well as the first book which bring the paternity culture to account in the filed of literature. The book was also being praised as the declaration of western feminist movement. In the book, she criticized the oppression the paternalism had given to women, confirmed the existence of women literature tradition, and discovered a history support point for women’s writing. The essay is designed for a better understanding of Woolf’s feminism by analyzes the book A Room of One’s Own through two main clues: the women and the fiction.Key words: feminism, Androgyny, female literatureContents Introduction (1)Chapter one The society position of women (2)Chapter two The bias against women’s writing (3)Chapter three The best way for writing- Androgyny (5)Conclusion (7)Notes (9)Bib liography (9)Acknowledgements (10)IntroductionVirginia Woolf, (1882~1941), a famous English novelist, essayist, feminist, and writer of short stories, had made great accomplishments in both fiction writing and literary criticism. At the same time, she was one of the three most famous writers who write in stream of consciousness, forerunner of feminism movement. Both of her parents had strong family association with literature. Her father was a famous editor, critic, and biographer, so that Woolf was raised in an environment filled with the influences of Victorian literary society. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is going to write fiction."A Room of One's Own, written in 1929, was a representative work to show Virginia’s thought of feminism, in this book, she explicitly demonstrates the social realities that in the traditionally paternity society that women had been oppressed for such a long time. They had to face to the sex discrimination and also the tradition-bound. And she brought forward the history reason and the reality reason of this phenomenon. she pointed out the factors that restrict women’s creativity in literature, first is the absence of financial independence, and second is the poor social position, and then she jump to the conclusion that if a woman want to start writing, she must have at least 500 pounds income a year and a room of her own.Woolf said that most works at the age she lives created by men were largely identical but with minor differences, because their writing ways were all got into conventional pattern that couldn’t strike a chord among the readers. For this reason, Woolf made a suggestion to all the female writers that they should create their own unique ways of thinking and creativity to demonstrate the existence of women. In the work, Woolf encourages women to be themselves, to be an independent one differs from men, not leech on to men at the same time get together harmoniously with men and the whole world. She creatively put forward a new writing concept, Androgyny, which means both sexes one body. She claims that androgyny is the best situation both for women and men who want to write, and it’s also the best way to eliminate the differences between men and women. It is precisely because the put forward of this creative concept, this book is still be considered as one of the most outstanding masterpiece in women’s literature area.On the other hand, A Room of One’s Own is also a controversial work in the critics’ eyes. It has beenrepeatedly reviewed, critiqued, and analyzed since its publication in 1929. Some critic states that this essay is not a feminist work but completely apolitical ideology and reduces the essay’s scope to a collection of musings on women and fiction. Some other critic enlarges the scope to a wide, universal feminism because at the period in which Woolf was writing, feminism, by popular definition, meant wanting the vote for women. This is certainly not Woolf’s brand of feminism.Woolf’s own intention in writing A Room of One’s Own may have actually been to create a work that lay somewhere in between these two extremes. But in fact, her feminism is in actuality quite limited in that she only applies it to British, upper middleclass women writers.Her essay which to someone seemed non- feminist and to some others seemed feminist-universalist is, by our modern definition, feminist; however, because the limitation of culture, class, and profession, Woolf’s feminism was a kind of narrow feminism.Even thought A Room of One’s Ow n is such a controversial work, it’s no doubt that the essay is also a masterpiece in the women literary world, and had made a great contribution to the later female literature.Chapter one: The society position of womenIn the first period of the book, Woolf first defines the questions of women and fiction as being three inextricable questions: women and fiction, that’s may be women and what they are like, or it might mean women and the fiction that they write; or it might mean women and the fiction that is written about them or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together.①To solve these three doubts Woolf first talked in voice of another person, about her experiences in Oxbridge, been drove out from the lawn and been kept out from the library all because she is a female. Through the two experiences, she illuminated the low stations of female in the high education organizations. Then, she turned to look back the women’s history station. She went to the British museum in hopes of finding some reasonable answer to the three questions but only find it difficulty because most books wrote about women were written by men. She read some of them, and summed up that, women, from of old, are always be deemed to be appendix of men.Many men in history had state the point of view that women are lower than men in many aspects, intelligence, moral and also physical force. Women have served all these centuries as looking–glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.②Because of this mirror, men gained some kind of self-confidence to believe that they are born to besuperior to half of the human beings. Men can’t bear any criticize from women, because once women tell the truth, men’s shadow in the mirror will be shorter, they will be more doubtful of their superiority. This may be the reason why Napoleon and Mussolini insisted the inferiority of women, and also may be the main reason why men are always in need of women.To keep men’s absolute superiority, women are forbidden to do the same works men could do, and their lives are almost the same. Most females are not access to a fair education since their childhood, and then large numbers of them get married at the age of 15 or 16, which followed with bearing and life long’s tedious housework at home. They have no ways to get enough money for themselves and no chance to own a moment’s freedom.Women are really live in the lowest class of the society at that time because the absence of both financial independence and intelligence independence.Chapter two: The bias against women’s writingIn the third period of the book, the author discovered the phenomena that in Elizabethan Era, a time literature develops rapidly, we still can’t find any writing of women.The author list some examples of women in men’s writing, like in the works of Shakespeare, find that the heroine are always full of personality and humanity, even as same great as men, but, they are only imaginary. The true condition is that women were locked and whipped by their husband, without any freedom. There are hardly any describes of women in history, especially women from middle-class, they don’t attend any society activities, they have no autobiographies, no diaries, and without any useful information.Someone declared that it was impossible for any woman, past, present, or to come, to have the genius of Shakespeare. But the author thinks that it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.③In the age of Shakespeare, it’s totally impossible for any woman to have the chance to experience what Shakespeare had experienced, which were the sources of his writing. At that time, if a woman has great talent in writing, but she absolutely can’t get the same achievement with men, she will be exclude by men, by the society, and at last, be crazy, lonely, distorted.The author supposed that Shakespeare has a sister, who has the same talent with Shakespeare, but her life will surely be different with his brother at that time, people will exclude her writing, and she had no choice but to live all her life under humiliation and oppression.Then, the author looked back to the difficult way women enter in the literary world. In the 16th century, few women like peers had the chance to write, but their writings are on the purpose to abreact their angry and discontent to their low status in society. Margaret Cavendish and Duchess, both born in high-class family, without children and love poems, became freaky and screwy for the same reason, cynicism from others.Dorothy, a woman who had great talent in writing, but said that, 'if I should not sleep this fortnight I should not come to that’④, a female who actually love writing made herself believe that writing for women is fantastic,we can feel the strong against feelings in the air at that time.In the 17th century, Aphra Behn, a woman lived in middle-class, full of humors, energy and courage, worked like men so that she could support herself, became the first woman who earn money by her writing. Since then, more and more female realized that women also could writing, and live a better life. At the end of 18th century, women’s thoughts became unprecedented lively, female come from middle class started to write. In some sense, we can say it was Aphra Behn who wins the right of writing for women.In the 19th century, more women began to write, but most of them wrote fictions. The four most famous female writers are: George Eliot, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austin. All of them have some points in common, live in middle class family, without their own living room and have no their own private time. These may be also the reasons why they write fictions but not plays, because write fictions don’t need to be so devotional. Even so, they created masterpieces like Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and so on.Women writers at that time still meet many difficulties, no tradition to follow, no one to ask for help because their thoughts are totally differ from men’s. So, for women, it’s urgent to discover a new way of writing, a way of their own features. Only by this way, women could create more great works which could last longer in the history.Chapter three: The best way for writing-AndrogynyThe author compared Jane Austin’s work to Charlotte Bronte’s, and found the difference between them.Jane Austin wrote pride and prejudice in a bad environment, with a lot of interferences, but we can’t see any influence by this from her work. We can’t feel any abomination, discontent, eeriness or preachment from his work. It seems that all obstacles are removed from her brain when she writing,that just the way how Shakespeare wrote.Then we turn to Charlotte Bronte’s writing, Jane Eyre, in this book, the heroine showed strong desire to explore the unknown world for her even been blamed by others. We can easily feel some kind of discontentment indignation to destiny, for she’s not only write fiction but also write her own story. This made her writing contorted and not so perfect.The biggest difference between the two female writers is that Jane wrote as a woman, but Charlotte tends to imitate men’s way of writing intentional, which made her work not so outstanding among so many similar works. For this reason, Woolf encourages all the female writers to write in their own thoughts and special ways.There is a spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head which one can never see for oneself. It is one of the good offices that sex can discharge for sex--to describe that spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head.⑤And men, from the earliest ages, with humanity and brilliancy, have pointed out to women that dark place at the back of the head. Now, female should walk behind men and point out the spot for them!She believes t here are two sexes in the mind corresponding to the two sexes in the body, sometimes the part of men works more, some times the part of women play the main role, but both of them are not strong enough to meet the complex world,and the best situation is that the two live in harmony together, and cooperate with each other spiritually. Therefore, Woolf put forward a totally new idea of writing to solve the problem of the imperfect of both sexes, that’s androgyny,She thinks only when the two sexes in our mind cooperate with each other, our brain will become active and productive enough, and then perfect work will come into being. A highly developed brain won’t think about sex, so a great mind must be androgynous, Shakespeare is just like this.When we turn to the male writers of the time, we will easily find it’s more difficult for them to be androgynous. Men sensitively felt the problem that women got more rights like be allowed to join the political events which never happened in the past that they have stronger desire to hold on their own opinions that they think a lot of the sex of their own. When read reading their writings, one can easily find the repeating describes of “I”, the most important “I”, and all the other things will fade away and be flooded by the shadow of ‘I’. This made their writings dull and tiresome like some kind of obstacles had blocked the authors’mind. For female, these kinds of works are meaningless that they can’t discover any thing they want from them.Anybody who wants to write must forget the sex at first. Only the works done under cooperation oftwo sexes in the mind could last long.At last, Woolf quoted a passage of Arthur Quilter–Couch ‘The poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog’s chance . . . a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writi ngs are born’⑥then jump to the conclusion that intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. Women are always poor from the beginning of time, so if a woman decided to start writing, she will make sure enough money and freedom in intellectual, that’s why a female writer needs 500 pounds income a year and a room of her own.At last, Woolf gave some suggestions for the females who are interested in writing. A great writer, no matter what bad characters he or she may has, he or she must be a kind person, so, for female writers, the author hopes all of them to be kind persons first, and never forget the responsibility of a writer, that’s to seek for the reality and deliver it to readers. Women had been oppressed for a long time, now they have more rights to change the ways of life, more time to read, and more ways to make themselves be accepted by others. That’s a great time for every female, so Woolf also hopes all the female writers could work harder, even struggle in poor or objection and never give up, the sister of Shakespeare may be any one of them.ConclusionWoolf is one of the forerunners in feminism. Her thoughts are still being highly praised nowadays. In the essay, Woolf expressed her strong feminism thoughts by her exaggerated and ironical describe writing ways. Her words seem fragmented in the book, but we can still dig out her feminism thought lively. Her courage to challenge the Patriarchal society and attack the Male hegemony had become the guiding inspirit for the later feminism.In the essay, the author first narrated the problem that women’s self-awareness had been oppressed for a long time. In the times before 19th century, if a woman wrote a book, she will surely be attacked by others including other women. In the paternity world, most women had identified with the idea that they were born to be lower than men not only on physical force, moral but also on intelligence. Some females even agree with the idea that woman is a rib from man. This kind of self-denial had strongly furthered men’s discrimination on women.Then, Woolf pointed out the truth that women are facing serious economical problems. Because the lack of steady income, females had lost the main station in the society and became attachment of men.To change the disadvantage position of women, women had no choice but to strive for independent financial position. That’s why a female should have at least 500 pounds a year before she starts to write.A room of one’s own for a female, in the author’s eyes, is not only a room but also a symbol of independence, both on financial and intellectual. A woman, live in father’s room when she was young, then live in husband’s room after got married, and live in her son’s room when she was old. The room in the essay means an independent space for women. Only when they had their own room, they will own freedom thoughts to write what they want to write.At last, Woolf put forward the concept of androgyny in writing and believes it’s the best state for writing, which influenced the later female writers a lot and is still being highly praised nowadays. Anyway, this essay has made a great contribution to the developing of feminism thoughts and has great importance in the literary world.Notes:①Virginia Woolf. A Room of One’s Own [M]. London: Penguin Classics Press, 2002.2 P1②Virginia Woolf. 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论伍尔芙《自己的一间屋》中的女权主义
论伍尔芙《自己的一间屋》中的女权主义作者:苏杭来源:《青年文学家》2017年第21期摘要:英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的《自己的一间屋》全书始终贯穿女权主义思想。
在书中明确指出“女人要写作,一定要有钱,还要有一间自己的屋子”。
这里的屋子不仅是一个容身之所,更是象征着独立自由。
作者在文章中使用意识流的写作手法,用夸张反讽的语气探讨了妇女促进文学发展的重要作用,表现了男权社会中女人地位的卑微,受歧视。
全书更是着重分析了女性创作所需的物质基础和社会地位的原因以及对现代社会女性创作的积极影响和意义,鼓励女性阅读,自由地写作,争取平等地位。
关键词:《自己的一间屋》;女权主义;双性同体作者简介:苏杭,河南大学文学院汉语言文学(师范)专业2014级在读。
[中图分类号]:I106 [文献标识码]:A[文章编号]:1002-2139(2017)-21--02随着封建社会的解体,女性问题越来越受到广泛关注,女性自身也渐渐觉醒,开始寻求政治经济,文化,教育多方面的公平地位,争取同男性平等的权利。
伍尔芙正是女性觉醒时期的一个先锋女性,她用辛辣的笔触直指社会弊端,抨击男性对女性的歧视,女性被社会,家庭,甚至自己束縛。
通过阐述女性与文学的关系,首先肯定女性可以写作,可以表达内心的想法;其次在写作中,女性应该解放自我,不要迫于男性甚至是社会压力而随波逐流,不敢表达自己内心的想法,她希望女性能够勇敢的表达自己,争取在经济上独立,借此来申明女性应该有自己的独立自由的环境,可以自给的宽松生存环境,不依附男性,但是又要具有男性意识的在这个世界上自由生活。
一、描写女性的社会地位主人公在大学曾经有两次被驱逐的经历,一次在草坪上,主人公迅速穿过一片草地的时候,立刻出现了一个面露恐惧和愤怒表情的男人对她做出手势。
主人公后来得知只有研究员和学者们才被允许来到草坪,砾石路才是留给女人的;第二次在图书馆门前,一位绅士告诉主人公只有在有学院的学术委员会委员陪同或者带有介绍信时,女士方可进入图书馆。
浅谈伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》中的女性主义
85浅谈伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》中的女性主义作者简介:岳珂珂,西安外国语大学英文学院英语语言文学专业2018级硕士,研究方向:英国文学。
浅谈伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》中的女性主义岳珂珂(西安外国语大学英文学院 陕西 西安 710128)摘要:弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫创作的小说《一间自己的房间》充分体现了伍尔夫先进的女性意识与女权思想。
通过对《一间自己的房间》中所蕴含的自由空间、女性生育观以及女性话语权的探讨,来分析伍尔夫在这部小说中所体现的女性主义意识。
关键词:弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫 《一间自己的房间》 女性主义中图分类号:I561 文献标识码:A 文章编号:1009-5349(2019)14-0085-02弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫是英国著名的小说家,她不仅是意识流写作方法的代表人物之一,还是女性主义理论家和女性主义文学批评的第一人。
她的著名作品《一间自己的房间》就展示了在男性世界女性作家创作的艰难,体现了她的女性主义意识。
在这部作品中,伍尔夫认为女性地位和权利不平等的根源在于父权制的影响,主张提高女性的地位和维护女性的权利,也号召所有的女性团结起来,为维护女性的权利和追求地位的平等而奋斗。
一、提倡女性拥有更多的自由空间伍尔夫呼吁女性拥有一间自己的房间。
在维多利亚时代,男性在社会上占据着主导地位。
对男性来说,写作是一门正当的职业和爱好,但是对女性来说,写作容易受到周围人的嘲笑与鄙视。
因此,在当时的社会条件下,女性进行创作阻碍重重。
她们根本没有自己的私人空间来从事创作,整天忙于处理家庭琐事,创作灵感也经常被打断。
《一间自己的房间》中,以简•奥斯汀为例,她没有自己的书房,大部分的创作都是在起居室完成的;她时刻保持着警惕,以免自己的创作被别人发现,受到别人的嘲笑。
所以每当听到脚步声,她就立即把自己的作品藏起来,她的创作也会因家务而中断。
那时候的女性很难拥有一间自己的房间来进行创作,更不用说拥有一间安静并且隔音效果很好的房间了;除非她的父母极其富裕,而且地位也十分尊贵。
女人需要“一间自己的屋子”——伍尔芙女性主义思想解读
2 0 世纪上半 叶 , 英 国著名女作家 、 男女平等思想的积极倡 导 者 弗吉尼亚 ・ 伍尔 芙围绕着妇 女与文学写 下了大量 的论文 和随 笔, 作为女权运动 的先驱 ,1 9 2 9年她发表 了长篇论文 《 一间 自己
的屋 子 》 。文 中作者揭示 了长期 以来处 于男权 中心社 会中的女性 所遭受的不平等待遇 ,要求女性 “ 成为 自己” ,并 为女性 争取独 立 自主和文学创作 的权 利。 二 、 女 性 作 家 的 写 作 条 件 2 . 1物质条件 伍尔芙指出 , 1 8世纪 以前欧洲妇 女要 想成 为一名作 家几乎是 不可能的 ,尽管 1 8世纪后期有所改观 ,但是妇女写作还是面临 着太多 的难题 。1 9世纪 , 许多英 国女作家被迫使用男性 笔名来减 轻社会压力 。女性作家在在其成长道路上有着数不 清的障碍 。她 指出 “ 一个女人如果要想写小说一定要有 钱 ,还要有一间 自己的 屋子” ,也就是说妇女写作应该具备与男人相 同的创作条件。这间 “ 屋子”指的是女作家的居住空间, 同时也象征着妇女的创作空间。
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莎士比亚有一位非常冇才华的妹妹在她哥哥继承财产时她一无所有哥哥进文法学校时她只能呆在家中干杂活?然后家人为其订婚为抗婚她选择了离家出走幻想能像哥哥那样击去闯荡最终却在受尽侮辱不可避免地成为男人的玩物在发觉自己怀孕后羞愧自杀被埋在了十字路法律和习俗如此不公竟把一个绝世才华的女性扼杀了
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从《一间自己的房间》看伍尔夫眼中的女性写作
从《一间自己的房间》看伍尔夫眼中的女性写作作者:李倩来源:《丝路艺术》2017年第03期摘要:《一间自己的房间》是英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作,是以她在剑桥大学的两次演讲为基础,加以汇集编纂而成。
众多学者都将《房间》作为研究伍尔夫女性主义的重要资源,加以深入剖析。
本文拟在对其女性主义理解的基础之上,将研究的重点放在作品的另一个侧面“女性写作”上,以探究伍尔夫对于女性写作的认识以及其希望达到的理想状态。
一、伍尔夫与《一间自己的房间》《一间自己的房间》于1929年10月出版,是根据伍尔夫于1928年在剑桥大学所做的题为“妇女與小说”的两次演讲汇集而成的。
全书共分六章,对女性的生活状况、历史地位、生存困境、性格特点等诸多方面都进行了深入的剖析。
同时,从字里行间之中我们也可以读出伍尔夫对于生活、文学作品以及创作的一些独特的观点。
她在谈到小说时讲道:“因为小说虽然需要想象力,却不是从天而降,像石子坠落地面,科学或许才是如此;小说像一张蛛网,看上去飘飘无依,却四下伸展,依附于生活。
”这样的一段话生动形象地阐述了生活与小说的关系。
此外,她还创造性的将性别与文学创作紧密的结合起来,列举了许多知名的女作家如:简·奥斯汀、勃朗特姐妹、乔治·艾略特等,分析他们的作品以及创作观念,并大胆的提出了自己的观点,为“女性写作”提供了诸多建设性的意见。
《房间》还采用了独特的话语方式。
一是第一人称“我”的主体性叙述,这一叙述方式“具有强烈的女性主义色彩,它体现了强烈的表达欲望,要求讲述女性的生活经验,传达独立的自我意识,拥有自主的文学空间”[1]二是文章在一开篇就大量的使用了隐喻和象征的手法,以“牛桥大学”来讽刺迂腐的教育制度,以“一间自己的屋子”来暗示女性的生存空间和文学空间等,通篇的象征以一种戏谑、调侃的语调描述了女性所处的社会现状,进而表达自己的不满,使得读者不得不细细琢磨、品味其中蕴含的深刻思想。
从《一间自己的房间》看伍尔夫的女性主义思想
从《一间自己的房间》看伍尔夫的女性主义思想作者:王萌来源:《青年文学家》2014年第33期摘 ;要:本文试图从《一间自己的房间》去深入探索弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女性主义意识产生的原因及其发展过程。
伍尔夫是西方女性主义的先驱,她的女性主义思想有着深刻的内涵,在对后来的女性主义作家,批评家的女性主义意识的启发上也有着重要的影响。
关键词:女性主义;《一间自己的房间》;弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作者简介:王萌,陕西三原人,英语语言文学硕士,咸阳师范学院外国语学院讲师。
[中图分类号]:I106 ;[文献标识码]:A[文章编号]:1002-2139(2014)-33-0-01一、伍尔夫女性主义产生的源泉弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫是西方现代女性主义的重要奠基人之一,是意识流小说的代表作家之一,本文指在考察伍尔夫的女性主义思想以及女性文学创作的观念。
伍尔夫对女性身份的研究与探索都是基于对女性现状的揭露与考察,女性的独特价值观和女性的自身意识是伍尔夫研究女性文学的基础,女性的价值观以及区别于男性的女性特征影响并揭示了女性主义发展的独特历史。
不同的女性对待女性主义方面有着不同的理解。
伍尔夫在女性主义创作过程中所提出双性理论对理解和认识男性创作也起到了积极的作用。
女性主义创作过程中所出现的困境与阻碍是伍尔夫所特别强调的。
期望女性有一个美好的适合女性创作的场所。
二、以男性为中心的男权主义伍尔夫,女权主义的倡导者和先驱,她深入批评和深刻揭露了以男性为中心的男权主义和男性社会,对处于男权社会下和处在男权压迫下的女性给予了深深地同情和极大地忧虑。
在作品《一间自己的房间》中,伍尔夫猛烈的抨击并且犀利地批判了男权秩序的根基,发展及其表现。
也深入挖掘了以男性为中心的男权秩序的根基及存在缘由。
伍尔夫从经济,社会,政治三个方面对保护男权社会的秩序进行了深入的批判与挖掘。
这个首先体现在男性的着装方面,揭示了男性的服装具有多重作用,不仅用于蔽体还用于美观,而且还在体现其社会地位方面有着微妙的表现,男性的服饰还说明了男性的身份和社会阶层。
苏塞克斯的恍惚——解读伍尔芙和她的《一间自己的小屋》
苏塞克斯的恍惚——解读伍尔芙和她的《一间自己的小屋》第一篇范文《苏塞克斯的恍惚——解读伍尔芙和她的《一间自己的小屋》”弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙,这位英国现代主义文学的代表人物,以其独特的文风和深刻的思想影响了一代又一代的读者。
《一间自己的小屋》是她的一部具有自传性质的作品,通过描绘自己在苏塞克斯的生活片段,展现了女性在文学创作和社会生活中的困境与追求。
书中,伍尔芙以细腻的笔触描述了苏塞克斯的景色:“这片土地是那么宁静,仿佛时间在这里停滞。
”这种恍若隔世的氛围让她陷入了深深的思考,对女性的地位、文学创作以及生活意义进行了深刻的反思。
从这部作品中,我们可以看到伍尔芙对女性独立人格的追求。
她写道:“女人必须有她自己的一间小屋,否则她会死。
”这句话表达了女性在文学创作中的孤独与无助,同时也揭示了女性在家庭和社会中寻求独立空间的渴望。
在当时的社会背景下,女性往往被束缚于家庭,缺乏自主权。
伍尔芙通过这部作品,呼吁女性勇敢地追求独立,为自己争取一片创作和思考的天地。
此外,书中还体现了伍尔芙对文学创作的独特见解。
她认为,文学创作不应受限于传统形式,而应追求内心的真实。
她写道:“我要写出我心中的真实,哪怕这意味着我要打破所有的规则。
”这种观点在当时可谓是石破天惊,她用行动证明了自己的主张,创作出了一系列具有现代主义特色的作品。
在《一间自己的小屋》中,伍尔芙还关注了女性与自然的关系。
她认为,女性与自然紧密相连,能够从自然中汲取力量。
这种观点在她的作品中得到了充分的体现,如她描绘苏塞克斯的景色时,写道:“这片土地与我心灵相通,它让我感受到了生命的力量。
”这种对自然的赞美与尊重,也体现了伍尔芙对女性力量的认同。
这部作品让我深刻地认识到,文学创作不仅是表达个人情感和思想的工具,更是对社会现实的反思和批判。
伍尔芙的文字犀利、旁征博引,触类旁通,令人叹为观止。
她对女性命运的关切,对文学创作的执着,都让我为之敬佩。
在我看来,《一间自己的小屋》是一部值得每一位读者细细品味的作品。
从《一间自己的屋子》看伍尔芙创作中的女性主义意蕴
从《一间自己的屋子》看伍尔芙创作中的女性主义意蕴作者:伍越来源:《赤峰学院学报·哲学社会科学版》 2015年第8期伍越(哈尔滨工业大学马克思主义学院,黑龙江哈尔滨150000)摘要:本文从剖析以弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《一间自己的屋子》开始为对象,探讨关于伍尔夫的女性写作的私人空间理论,以独特的个体意识来揭示英国维多利亚时代女性在创作中所承受的多重压力,女性真正解放的出路在很大程度上则取决于女性自觉意识的觉醒。
关键词:《一间自己的屋子》;重建;女性自我中图分类号:1561.074 文献标识码:A 文章编号:1673-2596(2015) 08- 0203- 03一个富有才气的16世纪的英国女性必然是不幸的,她的一切都会被时代所掩埋。
英国著名女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫认为,并不是女性的才华低于男性,而是约定俗成的社会制度迫使女性无法拥有自己独立的物质基础和创作环境,使得她们不能自由地从事文学创作。
她呼吁女性要树立起成为你自己”的女性自我,并且为女性争取独立自主和文学创作的权利而耗尽毕生心血。
(一)《一间自己的屋子》是伍尔夫的一部散文体评论文,这部评论文是由两次在剑桥大学所作的题为《妇女与小说》的讲座稿整理而成,她的这部散文文论被当做是女性主义批评第一部现代文本,社会主义一女性主义批评理论与实践的一个典范”,是不可否认的西方女性主义批评理论的经典,这部文论是充满对传统的父权社会及其文化体制愤怒批驳和剖析的作品。
她以“女性与小说”为主题展开了自己的篇章,她虚构了第一人称我”的世界,以她的意识流动展现女性作家的自由和特权。
她在文章初始就摆明了自己的立场,“女人想要写小说,必须有钱,再加一间自己的房间”。
伍尔夫在这个论文的第三章里面提出了一个假设,从这个假设中伍尔夫拉开了她自己的理论铺叔,这个假设是:如果莎士比亚真有一个同自己一样禀赋超群的妹妹朱迪恩,那她的一生又会是何种模样的呢?莎士比亚年轻时在家乡闯祸惹出了事端而背井离乡到了伦敦,因为他的性别于那个时代无疑是幸运的,最终他凭借着自己所受不多的教育和戏剧才华而最终成名。
a room of one's own读后感英文200字
a room of one's own读后感英文200字摘要:1.简述《一间自己的房间》的内容和主题2.分析伍尔夫的女性主义观点3.阐述作品对现代女性的启示和影响4.评价作品的文学价值和作者的写作技巧5.总结个人读后感正文:【提纲】1.简述《一间自己的房间》的内容和主题《一间自己的房间》是英国作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的一部散文作品,通过对一位虚构的女性作家在一段时间内的生活和创作的描绘,探讨了女性在文学创作、社会地位以及性别平等方面所面临的困境和挑战。
作品中,伍尔夫提出了著名的“一间自己的房间”的概念,意指女性需要拥有独立的空间、时间和经济条件,才能实现自我价值和创造力的发展。
2.分析伍尔夫的女性主义观点在作品中,伍尔夫明确表达了自己的女性主义观点。
她认为,女性在历史上一直受到压迫和歧视,这种现象不仅限于社会层面,还体现在文化和经济领域。
伍尔夫通过对女性作家的生活描绘,揭示了女性在创作过程中所面临的种种困境,如缺乏独立思考的空间、时间和经济支持等。
她认为,要摆脱这些困境,女性必须争取自己的权利,争取“一间自己的房间”。
3.阐述作品对现代女性的启示和影响《一间自己的房间》为现代女性提供了一种思考自身地位和命运的新视角。
作品中提出的“一间自己的房间”的理念,鼓舞了女性争取独立、自主和创造力的发展。
这一观念在后来的女性解放运动中产生了深远的影响,许多女性开始努力争取自己的权利,追求自我价值的实现。
4.评价作品的文学价值和作者的写作技巧《一间自己的房间》作为一部散文作品,具有很高的文学价值。
伍尔夫在作品中运用了丰富的文学手法,如内心独白、意识流等,使文本具有独特的审美价值。
同时,作品中对女性命运的探讨具有很强的现实意义,使得这部作品在文学史上具有重要地位。
5.总结个人读后感读完《一间自己的房间》后,我深感作品中传达的女性主义观念具有很强的现实意义。
作为现代女性,我们应当珍惜自己所拥有的权利,不断努力提升自我价值,为实现性别平等和社会进步贡献自己的力量。
浅谈伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》中的女性主义
浅谈伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》中的女性主义作者:岳珂珂来源:《现代交际》2019年第14期摘要:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫创作的小说《一间自己的房间》充分体现了伍尔夫先进的女性意识与女权思想。
通过对《一间自己的房间》中所蕴含的自由空间、女性生育观以及女性话语权的探讨,来分析伍尔夫在这部小说中所体现的女性主义意识。
关键词:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》女性主义中图分类号:1561 文献标识码:A文章编号:1009-5349 (2019) 14-0085-02弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫是英国著名的小说家,她不仅是意识流写作方法的代表人物之一,还是女性主义理论家和女性主义文学批评的第一人。
她的著名作品《一间自己的房间》就展示了在男性世界女性作家创作的艰难,体现了她的女性主义意识。
在这部作品中,伍尔夫认为女性地位和权利不平等的根源在于父权制的影响,主张提高女性的地位和维护女性的权利,也号召所有的女性团结起来,为维护女性的权利和追求地位的平等而奋斗。
一、提倡女性拥有更多的自由空间伍尔夫呼吁女性拥有一间自己的房间。
在维多利亚时代,男性在社会上占据着主导地位。
对男性来说,写作是一门正当的职业和爱好,但是对女性来说,写作容易受到周围人的嘲笑与鄙视。
因此,在当时的社会条件下,女性进行创作阻碍重重。
她们根本没有自己的私人空间来从事创作,整天忙于处理家庭琐事,创作灵感也经常被打断。
《 -间自己的房间》中,以简·奥斯汀为例,她没有自己的书房,大部分的创作都是在起居室完成的;她时刻保持着警惕,以免自己的创作被别人发现,受到别人的嘲笑。
所以每当听到脚步声,她就立即把自己的作品藏起来,她的创作也会因家务而中断。
那时候的女性很难拥有一间自己的房间来进行创作,更不用说拥有一间安静并且隔音效果很好的房间了;除非她的父母极其富裕,而且地位也十分尊贵。
拥有良好的创作条件可谓是难上加难,故伍尔夫认为女性写作最基本的条件是拥有一个很好的写作环境,而且还要具备一个独立的私人房间。
《一间自己的房间》的女性主义解读
《一间自己的房间》的女性主义解读作者:冯倩茜来源:《青年文学家》2014年第23期摘要:《一间自己的房间》是伍尔夫的代表作之一,文章充分展现了伍尔夫早期的女性主义观点。
她主张的“书写的自由”主要源自于他主张的“女性生活、思想、精神的自由”,并将其充分地反映在他的具体创作和生活中。
这部作品也吹响了女性思想意识解放的号角。
作者以一个女性的视野和胸怀,探索女性文学创作的理论和实践,充分的描述了男权社会中女性收到性别歧视的现象,强烈呼吁女性的觉醒关键词:《一间自己的房间》;伍尔夫;女性;父权社会[中图分类号]:I106 [文献标识码]:A[文章编号]:1002-2139(2014)-23--01《一间自己的房间》是女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作之一。
她是著名的英国女作家,也是20世纪最重要的现代作家之一。
伍尔夫出生在一个收入中上的富裕家庭,并收到了很好的家庭教育。
然而,伍尔夫却有着强烈的女性主义思想,这种倾向可以归因于她父亲的火爆脾气、武断专权并且粗鲁不堪,她的哥哥也曾不断骚扰和各种作为女性的不公正待遇。
《一间自己的房间》在1929年首次出版,散文是基于几篇在女子大学的演讲稿。
《一间自己的房间》也被当做女性主义的文本来解读,并在男权主宰的文学领域中,为女性在文字和想象空间上争取一定的空间。
在文章的最初,伍尔夫就提到,女性由于这样那样的原因而比男人贫穷。
他们没有太多的钱,而且也没有属于自己的私人空间。
许多人都质疑,为什么女性不能创造出伟大的文学作品,这并不是因为女性没有智慧,也不是因为女性没有能力写作。
在这样的男权社会中,女性只是男性的一种私有财产。
她们没有机会去学习,不能接受教育,甚至没有读书的机会。
女性对自己的生活没有选择权,因为从她们还未出生时起,她的父母就已经安排好了她将嫁给哪一位夫婿。
伍尔夫同时也认为女性不可能成为莎士比亚,因为女性被不公正的对待。
女人不被准许学习语法和逻辑。
而且女性也得不到像男性那样施展自己才华的机会。
从《一间自己的房间》解读伍尔夫的女性主义思想
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【摘 要 】 本文通过对弗吉尼亚 ·伍 尔夫 的名篇《一 了重构 和建设。而拥有 “一 间自己的房 间 仅仅是女性追求平等
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伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》的女性主义解读【lunwen+开题+综述】
BI YE LUN WEN(20_ _届)英语伍尔夫《一间自己的房间》的女性主义解读A Feminism Reading of Virgina Woof’s ARoom of One’s Own内容摘要弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫是20世纪文坛上的一名杰出的女作家,她被尊为意识流小说的鼻祖之一,与乔伊斯、福克纳等意识流小说大师齐名。
同时,她又被尊为西方当代女性主义的“母亲”,她认为女性应该在经济上和精神上独立,并拥有自己的生活空间和精神空间。
此外,还要勇于表达自我的真实想法。
她认为女性主义的最终目的是消解两性之间的对立,以达到两者的和谐状态。
因此,她在《一间自己的房间》中提出了“双性同体”理论。
本文试图从女性主义角度解读《一间自己的屋子》,分析伍尔夫的女性主义思想,以期更好的理解文学中的女性主义。
伍尔夫的女性主义思想在21世纪的今天仍有极强的思考意义。
关键字:弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫;独立;空间;双性同体;女性主义AbstractVirginia Woolf is an outstanding woman novelist in 20th century. She has been regarded as one of the representatives of the stream of consciousness, enjoying equal popularity with Joyce and Faulkner. Meanwhile, she is regarded as the mother of modern feminism in the west. She thinks that females should be financially and spiritually independent and have their own living space and spiritual space. In addition, women also need to express themselves bravely and sincerely. She considers the final goal of feminism is to dispel the opposition between males and females and to reach a harmonious state. Therefore, she proposes the theory of androgyny in A Room of One's Own. This thesis tries to discuss A Room of One's Own from the angle of feminism, and analyze Woolf's feminism so as to seek a broader understanding of feminism literature in general. Studying Woolf still has a profound meaning in 21st century.Key words:Virginia Woolf; independence; space; androgyny; feminismContentsAbstract (ii)1 Introduction (4)2 What’s feminism (5)2.1 The etymology of the term "feminism" (6)2.2 T he definition of the term “feminism” (6)2.3 Virginia's concepts of feminism (7)3 Virginia’s feminist idea in A Room of One’s Own (7)3.1 Economic independence (8)3.2 Having a room of one's own (10)3.2.1 Living space (10)3.2.2 Spiritual space (11)3.3 Establishing female's value (11)3.4 The pursuit of androgyny (11)4 Factors leading to Virginia’s feminist view (14)4.1 Her parents’s influence (14)4.2 The Bloomsbury Group’s influence (16)4.3 Sexual Assault by her brothers (17)4.4 The Industri al Revolution and the Women’s Right Movement (17)5 Conclusion (18)Bibliography (47)Acknowledgements (18)1 IntroductionVirginia Woolf (1882-1941), is a famous woman novelist in the 20th century and she is one of the important modernist novelists. Meanwhile, she is one of the representatives of the stream of consciousness, enjoying equal popularity with Joyce and Faulkner. What's more, she is regarded as the mother of modern feminism in the west.Literary criticism of Virginia Woolf has proliferated since the1980s. Some critics appraise her works and some appraise her person; some analyze her work’s consciousness, and some analyze her feminism; some study her works from ethics, some from aesthetics, some from homosexuality, some from psychology. She is not only a great writer, but also a "forerunner, indeed the 'mother' of the contemporary Anglo-American feminism” as Zhu Gang describes. (Z hu Gang 2006: 342) As for her feminism, some criticize her feminism as an extreme type for they think her represented idea of feminism—androgyny means she intends to replace male value with female value; some criticize her deviating the feminism for they think she couldn't bear her own female identity, so she had to give up to the patriarchal society and swamped in the mud of utopian thought of androgyny; while the others praise it highly for it is an advancement in the stage of feminism's development.Xu Wei analyzes Woolf's feminism, both as a theoretical analysis of gender inequality and oppression, and as a political movement. Her paper analyzes that Woolf how to analyze the question of "women writing" in the theory and how to practice it in her writing. Woolf is concerned with the nature of womanhood. The focus on women characters in Woolf's fiction is central to much early feminist criticism, as well as non- or anti-feminist criticism. To an extent, "anger" and "androgyny" are the two terms most central to feminist debates on Woolf. Their centrality serves to further increase the importance of A Room of One's Own as the key text of Woolf's feminism and feminism's Woolf, for it is here that "anger" and "androgyny" are most fully discussed. And A Room of One's Own is seen by many critics to subdue and repress women's anger in favor of a more serene gender—transcendent or androgynous creativity. (Xu Wei, 2004: 38-39) Wu Qinghong tries to analyze, to show and to criticize Virginia's feminism in the development of western feminism. And she indeed did it, comprehensively andintensively. Her main viewpoint is that Virginia Woolf is the most important representative person in the history of feminism's development. Woolf's analysis on feminism corrected the shortage of feminism in 1890s to 1990s, which emphasized the equality between men and women on law. What's more, her feminism inspired the new feminist in 1960s and 1970s to deconstruct male's political and cultural supremacy and establish female's visual angle, which predicted the development direction of post-feminism in 1990s. (Wu Qinghong, 2005: 5) Ma Tingting draws a conclusion that Woolf's feminism is not a panacea for all women, but an occidental one with intense tendency of racialism.(Ma Tingting, 2006: i-ii) Wu Haixia probes the unique feminist thoughts of Virginia Woolf, which she thinks are quite different from most of the other feminists. It is clearly that since the appearance of feminism, the oppositions between men and women have been highlighted, and feminism is related to the marginalization of all women, with their being relegated to a secondary position. Most feminists hold their views that the social culture is a patriarchal culture. Woolf realizes that women are confronted with inequalities and exclusion in the patriarchal society. Woolf witnesses the efforts and achievements the feminists have made to get equal rights and positions with men, whereas she airs her view that the final goal of feminism is to deconstruct the binary oppositions between the two sexes. She presents her famous theory of "androgyny" in A Room of One's Own. She argues that androgyny is the best state of mind for writing, in which a writer can make perfect artistic expression. (Wu Haixia, 2007: ii)Woolf criticizes the patriarchal society in her works, and prompts us to reexamine the history of human by a female angle to create a new civilization. Her ideology and perception opens and enlightens the idea of feminism in many aspects. This paper tries to analyze Woolf's concepts of feminism through the reading of A Room of One's Own, to get a further understanding on feminism, which can also help deepen Chinese female’s comprehension of feminism.2 What’s feminismAt the very beginning of this paper, a basic question needs to be answered. That is what feminism is? In the academic circles of Europe and America, "feminism" generally refers to any activities to strive for and tick up for the right of females. It has several hundred years' history and has complex contents. Therefore, it is difficultto define it.2.1 The etymology of the term "feminism"The term "feminism" is derived directly from the Latin word fēmina,which means woman. This term and its derivatives originated in France during the late 19th century. The first person who called herself feminist was a French suffragette activist, Hubertine Auclert(1848-1914).She first used this term in her periodical called La Citoyenne in 1880.(Cai Qing, 2005: 3) However, although this term was used in her periodicals, it was not popular among women advocates who were rather moderate. Instead of "feminist", these women called their organization "feminine". It was not until the beginning of the 20th century when "feminism" became accepted by most women suffragette activists.2.2 The definition of the term “feminism”In broad sense, feminism can be defined as social movement, which takes eliminating sex discrimination and ending the oppression on women as its political goals. It also includes the revolution in ideology and culture which emerged from the process for pursuing its political goals. In this sense, feminists represent those who devote themselves in this movement sincerely, and any males and females who take part in the revolution of ideology and culture. In its narrow sense, feminism refers to a kind of methodology that regards and analyses a question in a gender perspective.Feminism now stands for a movement or philosophy that questions the unequal balance of power between men and women. Feminists fight for equality between men and women. The term "feminism" has become the name for the women's movement, the quest for social changes aimed at improving the position of women. Feminism is defined both as "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes " and " organize activity on behalf of women's rights and interests".(Merriam-Webster, 2003: 461) Hence, the term feminism is not only about the struggle for political rights. It is a system of ideas and a social movement, directed towards opposing men's privilege of position and women's subordination. This term contains redistribution of power and recognition of sex equality.2.3 Virginia's concepts of feminismVirginia Woolf is not only a female writer, but also a pioneer of feminism. Her essential contribution to feminism is her perseverance that social and economic elements are critical to shape women's creativity and perception. According to her idea, women play a historical role to join in the creation of human civilization, especially the arts. What she emphasizes is that females should face the reality and think things that related to them instead of thinking things that concerned men. Therefore, she puts forward the idea that females should set up a literature of their own. To deal with the anger that appears in the process of writing and derives from the inequality between men and women, she proposes a concept of androgyny. An androgynous mind is the best state of mind for doing literary creation. However, it causes a heated debate among later feminists. Although it is controversial, she creates a bright future for females.Virginia's view of feminism is embodied intensively in the idea of androgyny. Androgyny has more than one meaning. It may refer to the anatomical coexistence of two sorts of sex organs in the same body; or else to the allegory of a form of spiritual perfection. In other cases, it is related to the explicit coexistence of male and female qualities in the same entity. (Wu Haixia, 2007: 23-24) To put it simply, androgyny means full balance and command of an emotional range that includes male and female elements. She thinks the final goal for feminism is to eliminate the opposition between males and females. Virginia's feminism includes economic independence, spiritual independence. Her analysis on feminism corrected the shortage of feminism in 1890s to 1990s, which emphasized the equality between men and women on law. What's more, her view of feminism inspired the new feminist in 1960s and 1970s to deconstruct male's political and cultural supremacy and establish female's visual angle, predicting the orientation of post-feminism in 1990s.3 Virginia’s feminist idea in A Room of One’s OwnA Room of One's Own is Virginia's representative work of feminism. In October, 1928, Virginia Woolf was invited to give two academic speeches by Cambridge University. One was in the Art Society of Newnham, the other was in the Gordon women college. The lecture topic was Women and fiction. The next year, she published a brochure,which was written on the basis of these two lectures. Quickly, the booklet amazed the world with a single feat at that time. Up to now, it has become the most famous work and has most readers compared to her other works. It is universally acknowledged as a declaration of western feminism.The work---A Room of One's Own can be divided into six parts. The first part describes an experience in Oxbridge University fabricated by the author, which shows an unfair treatment that females received in a patriarchal society. The second part represents a phenomenon that the author found a large amount of books about women's problems written by men in the England museum. What’s worse, one professor claimed absolutely in his marvelous work that female's intelligence, physical power and morality are all lower than males. In the third part, the writer sketches a hypothetical "Judith" Shakespeare, sister of William, who is as brilliant and promising as he, but her talent is undoubtedly buried by the patriarchal society. Woolf traced back to the females' rough process for getting in the literature arena in the forth part. Aphra Behn (1640-1689), a playwright, novelist and poet of England, who is the first English female to became a professional writer in 17th century. Then women writers began to feel proud and elated. However, most English women writers had to use males' name as pen names to relieve their social pressure during the 19th century. In the fifth part, the author points out that it is necessary to strengthen females' awareness of knowing the difference between males and females. Only in this way, she thinks, females can realize the true value of themselves. In the last part, Virginia agrees with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's androgynous idea, believing that a writer's creative soul should have both masculinity and femininity. In other words, a person is a bisexuality instead of a unisexuality. A person is androgynous. When full balance and command of an emotional range that includes male and female elements reached, these men writers or women writers can create great works.3.1 Economic independenceFemales are facing an economic problem. As is known to all, economy is the basis of living. Women lose their economic source, when the patriarchal society excludes them from the public work, which causes them sink in a poor state. In reality, what females are engaged in are human beings' personal production and all kinds of necessary house works to maintain many families’ functions. When women are doingthese, they use up their physical power, energy, and even sacrifice their lives. However, these are all done in the area of family. Their yields often cannot leave any tangible fruits. For example, the cooked food will be eaten up, the washed clothes will be dirty after wearing again, and children who have been raised up will leave home to get in their own world. Don't these household labors have any value? Is there anybody who pays them salary? Therefore, these natural, non-commercial labors are excluded from the social labor by the patriarchal society, because they are only related with personal family members and they cannot create value directly. Since the unpaid labor take up most energy of females, they lose their subject position in the society and lose the source of finance. Therefore, if females want to get rid of the disadvantaged status imposed on them by history and reality, they should strive for the economic position. Just like what Woolf says in A Room of One's Own, women should have revenue of 500 pounds every year. She considers that the main reason why there are so less women writers is that our mother is too poor. For example, if Mary's mother " had gone into business; had become a manufacturer of artificial silk or a magnate on the Stock Exchange; if she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease tonight and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relatively, geography. If only Mrs. Seton and her mother and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money and had left their money, like their fathers and their grandfathers before them, to found fellowships and lectureships and prizes and scholarships appropriated to the use of their own sex, we might...have looked forward without undue confidence to a pleasant and honorable lifetime spent in the shelter of one of the liberally endowed professions. We might have been exploring or writing; mooning about the venerable places of the earth; sitting contemplative on the steps of the Parthenon, or going at ten to an office and coming home comfortably at half-past four to write a little poetry." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 576) They haven't learned how to make money, how to manage their own property. For thousands of years, women are handling house works and rearing children, while men are doing business for making money. While princes and aristocrats use their properties to build many schools and libraries, women are rejected out of the colleges; they are restricted in a small circle of family. They have no rights to receive education. As a result of being deprived of enjoying rights of owning their ownproperty, females' desires for making money are constrained. The thousands of years' influence of patriarchal society places women in a penniless position.Women began to walk out of the household in 20th century. Thus, many women writers sprung up. We can see that for the latest hundred years, the appearance of many women writers are concerned with the rights women have achieved, especially the acquirement of economic right, which plays an important and positive role in art creating. Woolf herself also admitted that she and her sister obtained all their father's books after their father's death, so she could start her writing career. In A Room of One's Own, the narrator also repeatedly says that but for her aunt's 500 pounds' heritage, it might have been hard for her to break away most women's fate---working hard in the household or going out for earning money to keep the pot boiling. All in all, females should be independent in the economy.3.2 Having a room of one's ownVirginia said that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 555) It has been discussed that females should be financially independent. Now, it turns to a room of one's own. Having a room of one's own not only indicates that females should have their basic living space, but also means that females should have a comparatively free spiritual space.3.2.1 Living spaceIn the past, women were restrained in a small room, being busy at doing trivial house works all day. It was not uncommon that their works would be suspended. What's worse, they had to hide their works quietly to avoid being scoffed. Jane Austen is a good example in A Room of One's Own." For she had no separate study to repair to, and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room, subjecting to all kinds of casual interruptions. She was careful that her occupation should not be suspected by servants or any persons beyond her own family. Jane Austen hid her manuscripts or covered them with a piece of blotting-paper." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 604) Therefore, having a living space for one's own plays an essential role in females' creation.3.2.2 Spiritual spaceMany women writers were born in rich families. They had money and their own living spaces. However, they depended on their parents so much that they didn't go out for traveling to broaden their eyes. They did what their fathers asked and even married to who their fathers picked for them. When they were children, they were subjected to their fathers; when they were married, they were obedient to their husbands; when they were old, they complied with their sons. It is just like the three cardinal guides and the five constant virtues as specified in the ancient Chinese feudal ethical code. Women never had their own minds and their own spiritual space, they were not spiritually independent. Woolf pays more attention to the influences of patriarchal society on women's writing.3.3 Establishing female's valueWoolf finds that women's writing hasn't had their own tradition. Therefore, she proposes that females should set up their own value. To create females' literature or other careers, they have to take two times adventures. First of all, killing the "angel in the house", to be ourselves. Here, the "angel in the house" represents the stipulations that imposed on women by social norms and ideology of traditional culture. It also refers to females' conscious compliance to this oppression. They even turned patriarchal oppression and forbidden into their self requests and self-conscious actions. Facing this, Woolf realizes that the only way is to kill it, otherwise "she will kill me, she will dig out my heart of writing". The second adventure is to express truly the physical experience of ourselves. Women's requests suffered an extreme suppression and twist in the patriarchal society. According to Woolf, the consciousness that how a man will look at a woman who expresses her own real lust disturbs a female writer's imagination and damages her creativity. Therefore, expressing one's own real idea becomes an important means to remove the patriarchal ruling.3.4 The pursuit of androgynyAndrogyny is Woolf's social and literary ideal, but its premise is getting rid of the two sexes inequality and opposition, and the discrimination on females. Many feministsare unwilling to accept this viewpoint. For example, Elaine Showalter points out that "Woolf's androgyny is a female writer's reaction to her crag-fast condition". (Zhugang, 2006: 355) It is a utopia imagination of an ideal artist. Although it is quite controversial, it is a revolt to the creative standpoint of literature which regards male value as the unique standard. It is an initial deconstruction to the binary opposition of sex. It has a great influence on the generation of subsequent feminism theory and its criticism.Androgynous mind is central to Woolf's feminism. She defines it as "a mind that is reason; that transmits emotion without impediment; that is ceaselessly creative; incandescent; undivided. In fact one goes back to Shakespeare's mind as the type of the androgynous, the man-womanly mind." (Huangzhong, 2005: 23-24) Simply speaking, androgyny means full balance and command of an emotion range that includes male and female elements. She thinks that an androgynous mind is the best state of mind for doing literary creation.Woolf proposes at the beginning that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 555) However, she also points out that the economic problem is not the only element that impacts women's writing. A placid and healthy state of mind is also necessary. The narrator takes Lady Winchester as an example in the 4th chapter of A Room of One's Own. She was noble both by birth and by marriage; she was childless; she wrote poetry. Her mind was disturbed by alien emotions like fear and hatred, so her poems showed traces of that disturbance:How we are fallen! fallen by mistaken rules,And Education's more than Nature's fools;Debarred from all improvements of the mind,And to be dull, expected and designed;And if someone would soar above the rest,With warmer fancy, and ambition pressed,So strong the opposing faction still appears,The hopes to thrive can ne'er outweigh the fears.Yet it is clear that could she have freed her mind from hate and fear and not heaped it with bitterness and resentment, she could create pure poetry as follows:Nor will in fading skills compose,Faintly the inimitable rose. (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 599-600)Charlotte Brontěmay be another example. As we all know, she is an brilliant English novelist. However, Woolf finds that there is a certain shrillness arising out of her works. Although Woolf thinks that she is more genius than Jane Austen, her anger makes her books "deformed and twisted" (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 606). There is no doubt that a woman writer would become angry in a man-dominated society. She expresses her dissatisfaction in her famous work---Jane Eyre: “Women are supposed to be very calm generously: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer..." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 606) As a consequence," She will write in a rage where she should write calmly. She will write foolishly where she should write wisely. She will write of herself where she should write of her characters. She is at war with her lot. How could she help but die young, cramped and thwarted?" (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 606)On the other hand, Jane Austen had been constantly disturbed when writing Pride and Prejudice. Therefore, Woolf thinks that the environment should have influenced her and she would write a better one if there were no disturbances. To Woolf's surprise, when she "read a page or two to see, but I could not find any signs that her circumstances had harmed her work in the slightest." (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 605) She thinks that because Austen wrote "without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote." And "when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare. (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 605)What is the difference between these two groups of examples? We can see that in the last chapter of this essay. The narrator gets the inspiration when she sees a very ordinary sight out of the window: a girl and a young man are coming down the street, meeting at the corner and getting into a cab. Then she sketches a plan of the soul so that "in each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain the woman predominates over the man. The normal and comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating. If one is a man,still the woman part of his brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. (Virginia Woolf, 2005: 623-624) She thinks that perhaps what Coleridge meant when he said that a great mind is androgynous.4 Factors leading to Virgini a’s feminist viewVirginia Woolf is a productive writer and a great feminist, but first of all she is a social being, so her ideas can not be separated from the factors leading to her feminist view. As a result, it is far from enough to know about her and her work only by knowing her talents and achievements. Her parents and the Bloomsbury Group are of great influence on her writing and her feminist ideas. Besides, there are sexual assault by her brothers, the Industrial Revolution and the Women’s Right Movemen t.4.1 H er parents’ influenceVirginia Woolf was born in a literary family. Her father was the distinguished Victorian author, critic and Alpinist, Sir Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), editor of the Cornhill Magazine (1871-82), of the Dictionary of National Biography (1882-90) and of the Alpine Journal (1868-72), who counted Thomas Hardy, Henry James and George Meredith among his friends (Jane Goldman, 2008: 3). Her mother was Julia Prinsep Stephen (1846-95), who was born Julia Prinsep Jackson, in India, the daughter of John and Maria Jackson. Her maternal grandmother, and Woolf’s great-grandmother and namesake, was Adelin (1793-1845), daughter of Antoine Chevalier de L’Etang and Thérèse Blin Grincourt,who married James Pattle (1775-1845) of the Bengal Civil Service (Jane Goldman, 2008: 4). There is no denying that her parents exerted great influence on her thinking. She was born in a large and well-to-do family, with learned father and mother, intelligence and wide social connection.Her father, Leslie Stephen, a widower, had married Julia Jackson in 1878. Between them they already had four children; after they got married, they had another four children: Vanessa, Thoby, Virginia and Adrian. This family was a typical patriarchal family of Victorian time. In the family, the patriarchs were in charge of everything, owing unassailable powers, capable of enforcing everything upon women. There is evidence in the article of Virginia Woolf and Leslie Stephen: History and。
试析《一间自己的房子》中闻奇尔西夫人的女性意识
本科毕业论文(设计)任务书目录成果声明 (II)摘要 (3)关键词 (3)Abstract (3)Key words (3)绪论 (4)1闻奇尔西夫人的写作困境 (4)1.1 艰难的写作历程 (4)1.1.1 他人的不理解 (4)1.1.2 内心的忧郁和痛苦 (5)1.2独立意识被摧残 (5)1.2.1 独立意识的觉醒 (5)1.2.2 自我解放的焦虑 (6)1.3女性作家话语权的缺失 (7)1.3.1 男性话语的压制 (7)1.3.2 女性的自我异化 (7)2 建立女性的写作空间 (8)2.1拥有独立物质基础和正确精神空间 (8)2.1.1独立的物质基础和经济条件 (8)2.1.2构建女性创作的正确精神空间 (9)2.2追求女性的解放和独立意义 (9)2.3建立女性话语系统 (10)结语与展望 (11)参考文献 (14)致谢.................................................... 错误!未定义书签。
摘要:弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙作为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋,其作品《一间自己的房子》带有明显女性主义色彩。
本文主要基于女性主义视角,从艰难的写作历程、独立意识被摧残与女性作家话语权的缺失这三个方面详细叙述闻奇尔西夫人的写作困境,并提出拥有独立物质基础与正确精神空间、追求女性解放和建立女性话语系统这三点建议来解决她的写作困境。
同时本文以闻奇尔西夫人为例,倡导更多女性追求自由与平等。
关键词:女性主义独立的写作条件女性话语权两性平等Abstract:Virginia Woolf is a pioneer of modernism and feminism in the 20th century. In this paper, based on the feminist perspective, from a difficult writing course, independent consciousness and battered women writers say the lack of these three aspects detailed WenJiEr west lady writing predicament, and put forward independent material basis and spiritual space right discourse system, the pursuit of women liberation and the establishment of the three Suggestions to solve the difficulties of her writing. At the same time, this paper takes Mrs. Wenchilsi as an example to advocate more women's pursuit of freedom and equality.Key words:Feminist Independent writing conditions Female discourse power Gender equality绪论19世纪末的英国,妇女解放运动高涨,越来越多的女性要求两性平等和获得应有的选举权。
浅析弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女权主义思想——以《一间自己的屋子》为例
伍 尔夫 的《 一 问 自己的屋子 》 一 发表 , 让她 一度 成 为女 权主义的推崇偶像 。“ 拥有一 间 自己的房 间” 也成 为女性独立 的迄 始标志 。伍 尔夫并没 有大张旗 鼓地高 举女权的旗帜 , 拥有 一间 自己的房间 , 然后静 静地 写作 才是她 的夙 愿。该作 品以高度 的幽默、 机智 和丰 富的想 象力来展 开论 战。伍 尔夫认 为 : “ A
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二、 女性写作空间的思考
古往今 来 ,女 性作家所面 临的最基本 困难就是 没 有 自己独立 的写作空 间,即没 有一个 属于 自己的 创作 的写作 场所 。伍 尔夫认为 , 在男权思想 下的维 多 利 亚时代 ,虽然偶有 女性 闯入 了 由男性独 霸的 写作 领域, 算是幸 运 的 , 但 是这 些女 性与 男性相 比 , 她们 没 有 一个 属于 自己 的私人 写作空 间供 她 们 创作 所
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i s t o w r i t e i f c t i o n . ”这句话意思是 : “ 女人要想 写小说 , 必须有钱 , 再加一 间 自己的房 间。” 伍 尔夫对英 国的 女性文学发展 了如指掌 。在《 一间 自己的屋子》 中, 她 详细论述 了这一历史过程 。文 中给 我们提 了一 个关 于女性 写作 的问题 ,即为什么英 国女性文学 的发展 道 路 如 此 曲折 。
弗 吉尼亚 ・ 伍 尔夫 是英 国现代 著名 的 女性小 说 家、 评论 家和散 文家。伍 尔夫由于深受弗洛伊德心理 学、 女性主义及 同性恋运动影 响 , 在 文学上 的成 就和 创造性至今 仍然产生很 大的影响 。她 的小说作 品有 《 达洛 威 夫人》 《 海 浪》 《 到 灯塔 去 》 《 雅格 布 的房 间》 《 奥兰 多》 《 岁月》 《 一 间 自己的屋 子》 等, 她 的小说 创 作实践推动 了现 代小说 的发 展 ,其理论 进一步巩 固 了意识流小说的地位 。 本文是 以伍 尔夫的女权 主义代表 作 《 一 间自 己 的屋子》 为研究对 象。在 弗吉尼 亚・ 伍尔夫看来 , 要有 个独立 的女性文学传统存 在 ,但这 一传统一 直为 男权制文化所压 抑 ,在客观 上增加 了妇女创作 的困 难。要寻 找女性文学传统是十分困难的 , 其 一是 因为 妇女文学 的发展 呈间歇状 态 , 直到 1 9世纪才可较 清 晰地看 出具有 延续性的女性 文学传统 。其二是 因为 大量女性作 品是 以男性笔名 或匿名发表 的。对于伍 尔夫而 言 , “ 女 权主义 ” 这个字 眼是 尖刻 的 , 她在《 一 间 自己的屋 子》 中曾为女性发 出过 呼吁 , 影响很大 。
《一间自己的房间》[英]弗吉尼亚伍尔夫著瞿世镜译读后感
《一间自己的房间》[英]弗吉尼亚伍尔夫著瞿世镜译读后感《一间自己的房间》[英]弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫著瞿世镜译读后感“第一篇范文”《一间自己的房间》,是英国女性主义文学先锋弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作之一。
这本书以其独特的观点、犀利的文字,探讨了女性与文学创作、女性与社会地位、女性与自我认同等诸多问题。
伍尔夫以她特有的细腻与深刻,为我们展示了一幅女性心灵世界的画卷。
女性与文学创作在书中,伍尔夫明确指出:“女性要写作,必须有钱,还有一间自己的房间。
”这句话道出了女性在文学创作上的困境。
在当时的社会背景下,女性往往被束缚在家庭角色中,缺乏独立的经济来源和私人空间。
这无疑给女性的文学创作带来了极大的限制。
女性与社会地位伍尔夫在书中提到:“女性,这个世界上最受压迫的群体。
”她以锐利的目光揭示了当时女性在社会地位上的低下。
她呼吁女性要有独立的人格,要争取与男性平等的社会地位。
这种观点在当时无疑是具有颠覆性的,但正是这种颠覆性,让这本书成为了女性主义文学的里程碑。
女性与自我认同书中还探讨了女性在自我认同上的困惑。
伍尔夫认为,女性应该摆脱社会赋予的固定角色,去寻找真正的自我。
她说:“一个人不能总是扮演同一个角色,否则她就会失去自我。
”这句话对女性的自我认同具有重要的启示意义。
旁征博引,触类旁通伍尔夫在书中不仅关注女性问题,还旁征博引,涉及了文学、艺术、历史等多个领域。
例如,她引用了莎士比亚的名言:“弱者,你的名字是女人。
”以此来讽刺当时社会对女性的歧视。
同时,她还以古希腊神话中的女性形象为例,探讨了女性在历史长河中的地位变迁。
总结读完《一间自己的房间》,我对伍尔夫的才华和勇气深感敬佩。
她用独特的视角,犀利地剖析了女性在当时社会中所面临的种种困境。
这本书让我认识到,女性要想在文学、社会、自我认同等方面获得平等地位,必须勇敢地挑战传统观念,追求独立与自由。
第二篇范文《一间自己的房间》,弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的这部作品,不仅仅是一篇女性主义的宣言,它更是一面镜子,映照出了整个社会对于个体自由和表达的压制。
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《一间自己的房间》与女权主义之于现实社会
蒋涵
清华大学人文学院外文系英32班
摘要:弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙作为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋,在《一间自己的房间》中表达出了对虽有改善但男性地位依然更高的社会的抱怨,并阐述了自己的观点。
本文即在女性主义的基础上,从《一间自己的房间》的内容出发,联系实际,去发现分析不平等。
关键词:女性主义权利平等
1、社会中的女性的定位
“女人一直被用作镜子,把男人的外形以自然大小两倍的方式给照出来的似魔术而又令人愉快的力量。
”男人,把女人当做是反应场,按女人的反应给自己打分,所以在男人看来,女人是附属品。
女人,“为男人所赡养,又为男人所支配”,失去自主权和经济独立的女人与宠物在一定程度上并无差别,伍尔芙也认为强大的男权社会氛围使女性的自我自动的从女性身上消失了,潜移默化的被男性的价值标准异化了。
就如同当今社会大众不愿意给农民工祖国的空间来施展拳脚一样,而大多数农民工自己也不会去争取。
而没有地位的女人,在十九世纪没有机会写作是一定的。
2、在当时社会定位中所受到的不平等
女性主义者争取女性选举权、受教育的权利和就业权等等,这些正是当时社会女性所需要的,虽然一部分人并不知道她们需要。
从作者杜撰的朱迪斯的故事中我们能明显的感受到受教育权利和就业权利的缺失,而当一个人的想往被判决死刑,活下去的意义就变得虚无。
在作者的自述中,我们也能看出女性在就业方面职位的限制,报酬的不公。
作者尝试着把其原因归结于祖母、母亲没有足够的遗产给女儿,但社会也并没有给母系祖辈们挣到钱的能力和权利,甚至连拥有财富的权利都没有。
而女作家们使用假名(男子名)发表文章也充分的体现了女人们所受到的不平等待遇。
3、女性在不公中的反抗力量
简·奥斯丁被别人看到在写作确实会被耻笑,但她依旧反抗,用笔反抗;会有作者通过写作来愉悦自己,即使没有读者也会让思想飞;工作环境不理想,但女人们依然去工作,也会通过写作来挣钱,以示尊严;男性作家是主流,伍尔芙
会从小说,意识流少人涉及的角度去开拓属于女人的天地……这些都是女人的反抗。
她们想得到教育、法律、就业等方面的平等,她们也许并没想要挑战公众的价值观,但她们内心与男人共同的对知识、权利、金钱的渴望让她们一点一点的反抗不公。
4、《一间自己的房间》与女权主义的现实意义
即使在今天,我依然认为社会建立于一个男性被给予了比女性更多特权的父权体系之上,虽然在教育上的公平已经十分到位。
但是在就业广告中男女的不平等显而易见。
不能否认男人和女人在身体和心里上所存在的不同,但对于权利平等的追求是不能止步的。
《非诚勿扰》的成功在新颖,而新就新在男权社会中少见的女性主导,这既是女性主义的可颂亦是可悲。
参考文献:
1、一间属于自己的房间——谈弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的女性观杨晓敏内蒙古师范大学学报(哲学社会科学)
2、浅析《非诚勿扰》中的女性形象及女性主义
3、浅谈女权主义。