女性主义理论观照下的布兰齐和麦琪形象评析

Comments on Blanche and Maggie from the Perspective of Feminism

运用女性主义理论对《欲望号街车》和《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》中的女主人公布兰齐和麦琪进行分析研究,发现前者将命运寄托于男性,最终走向毁灭;后者坚强独立,成为主宰命运的强者。两位女主人公的个性差异反映了作者田纳西.威廉斯妇女观的嬗变。这种嬗变与其早年的家庭环境和美国20世纪50-60年代的妇女运动息息相关。

The analysis of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from the perspective of feminism shows that Blanche hopes to find sustenance in men and is finally victimized by male-dominated society while Maggie is hard and independent and becomes the controller of her own fate.Such differences in the two heroines reflect the change of Tennessee Williams＇s women outlook,which is closely connected with his early family background and the Women＇s Liberation Movement in the 1950s-1960s in America.