学年论文《恋爱中的女人》

Analysis of Causes for Gudrun’s Love

Tragedy

院系：云南大学滇池学院外语系

学科、专业：英语语言文学

2015年9月1日

Abstract

This thesis is based on the study of Women in love.Women in love revolves around the emotional entanglements of two lovers: Ursula and Birkin overcome the differences and make a compromise for love ; But Gudrun and Gerald’s relationship is in the condition of ruin for the difference of the concept and numerous conflicts . In this paper, I will research the causes which lead to Gudrun’s love traged y . And I will use methods of empirical research and theoretical analysis to prove them. Gudrun’s love tragedy is led by external factors such as the patriarchal society, the Industrial Revolution and Gerald. At the same time, it is also influenced by her internal factors like the independent personality and the feminist tendency.In conclusion, social backgrounds, Gerald and Gudrun’s own personality are major causes that give rise to her love tragedy.

Key words:Gudrun; love tragedy; causes; social background; Gerald; personality

摘要

本文的研究是基于《恋爱中的女人》。《恋爱中的女人》围绕两对恋人的情感纠葛展开：欧秀拉伯基怀着对生命的热爱，冲破重重阻隔，有情人终成眷属；而古德伦和杰拉德则由于双方观念上的巨大差异，经历了无数次冲突后最终关系破裂。

本文研究的主题是分析造成古德伦爱情悲剧的原因。我将采用实证研究和理论分析的论证方法去论证它。古德伦爱情悲剧的产生是外部因素的作用,例如：父权社会，女权运动以及杰拉德。与此同时，也受到她自身独立的性格和女性主义倾向等内部因素的影响。总之，社会背景，杰拉德和自身性格是最终导致古德伦爱情悲剧的主要原因。

关键词：古德兰；爱情悲剧；原因；社会背景；杰拉德；性格

Introduction

Women in Love is a novel by British author D.H. Lawrence.It is regarded as one of the most representative and greatest novels of Lawrence’s works. It firstly explores the psychological issues related to love with unprecedented passion and depth. Consequently, it represents the highest achievement of Lawrence’s work s. women in love tells about the love affairs of two sisters Ursula and Gudrun who live in a small town. They are both modern women, but the result of their love affairs is totally different. Ursula gets married with Birkin while the relationship between Gudrun and Gerald is on the rocks. There are so many reasons leading to Gudrun’s love tragedy. Under the background of patriarchal society and the feminism movement, Gudrun’s lov e tragedy must take place. Besides, Gerald is a typical representative of patriarchy in the patriarchal society, while Gudrun has a strong feminist tendency. They have an irreconcilable conflict at the conscious level so that Gerald can’t be the right man for Gudrun. Finally, the multifaceted character of Gudrun plays the most important role to her love tragedy. In brief, the social backgrounds, Gerald and Gudrun’s own personality all make a great difference to her love tragedy.

Part ⅠAnalysis of the social background

The social backgrounds like patriarchal society and the feminism movement have an important influence on Gudrun’s love tragedy.

1.1 Patriarchal society