论莎士比亚戏剧中的女性形象

论莎士比亚戏剧中的女性形象

摘要：文艺复兴时期的文化巨人莎士比亚在其戏剧中塑造了一系列丰富生动和光彩照人的女性群像，成为各国人民百谈不厌的话题，受到了不同国度、不同阶层读者的喜爱与赞扬。他笔下的女性形象丰富了世界文学的人物画廊，她们不是属于一个时代，而是属于人类所有的世纪。莎士比亚戏剧中一系列女性形象根据其创作时期的不同而被赋予了不同的特色。喜剧中的女性角色大部分处于主角地位，她们充满智慧、才能和美德，她们敢于大胆反抗传统道德，勇于追求爱情自由和婚姻自主，是体现人文主义理想的新女性。悲剧中的女性退为次要人物，她们要么是纯洁的天使，要么是狠毒邪恶的恶魔，体现了作者对英国社会现实生活的深入认识。喜剧和悲剧中女性形象的变化，反映了作者认识生活和创作思想的变化，从中也可以看出作者男权意识的自然流露。

关键词：莎士比亚，喜剧，悲剧，新女性

A Study of Shakespeare’s Female Characters Abstract: Shakespeare, the cultural giant in renaissance period, has shaped a series of female characters that are very lively. These characters proved to be the themes talked by people all over the world. The readers from different countries and different stratum pay close attention to and think highly of the characters. The female images in Shakespeare’s plays enriched the character gallery of world literature. They are not only belonging to a period, but also a part of the whole centuries of human beings. According to the changes of the time, Shakespeare gave the female characters different features. The most women in his comedies take the most important places. They are full of wisdom, talent and virtue. They rebel the traditional moral bravely, pursuing the freedom of love and the self decision of marriage. They are new women, revealing the humanism ideal. The women in the tragedies correspondingly draw back to the secondary characters. They are either pure female like angle or evil devil, pressing deep recognition of British real social life. The changes of female images in comedies and tragedies reveal the changes of the way how the author recognized life and ideas guiding the creation. And it also naturally reveals the author’s male chauvinism.

Key Words: Shakespeare; Comedy; Tragedy; Female characters

Contents

摘要 (i)

关键词 (i)

Abstract (ii)

Key Words (ii)

Contents (iii)

Chapter One Introduction (1)

1.1 A Brief Introduction of Shakespeare (1)

1.2 Creation of Shakespeare’s Female Characters (1)

1.3 Study Purpose and Significance (2)

Chapter Two Archetype Analysis of Female Characters in Comedies (3)

2.1 The Dauntless and Treasonous Characters (3)

2.2 The Smart and Intelligent Characters (4)

2.3 The Considerate Wives and Loving Mothers (5)

Chapter Three Archetypal Analysis of Female Characters Tragedies (7)

3.1 The Fiendish Characters (7)

3.2 The Angelical Characters (8)

Chapter Four Changes of the Female Characters in Comedies and Tragedies (10)

4.1 Comparison of the Female Characters (10)

4.2 Reasons for these Changes (10)

Chapter Five Conclusion (12)

Bibliography (13)