摘要
George Eliot(1819-1880)is an outstanding female writer in Victorian Age.Virginia Woolf,a feminist pioneer,once praised her as"the pride and paragon of the female".However,her feminism is ambivalent.On the one hand,she dares to challenge the male-dominated society and supports women’s rights to receive education and freedom of love and marriage.On the other hand,she emphasizes that women should make self-sacrifice to help men achieve their goals.Based on The Mill on the Floss and studies of previous scholars,this thesis tries to analyze George Eliot’s ambivalent feminism.Thus it is beneficial for readers to observe and think about women’s future.
George Eliot (1819-1880) is an outstanding female writer in Victorian Age. Virginia Woolf, a feminist pioneer, once praised her as“the pride and paragon of the female”. However,her feminism is ambivalent. On the one hand, she dares to chal?lenge the male-dominated society and supports women’s rights to receive education and freedom of love and marriage. On the other hand, she emphasizes that women should make self-sacrifice to help men achieve their goals. Based on The Mill on the Floss and studies of previous scholars, this thesis tries to analyze George Eliot’s ambivalent feminism. Thus it is beneficial for read?ers to observe and think about women’s future.
出处
《海外英语》
2014年第24期219-220,共2页
Overseas English
