从自然主义视角解读《觉醒》的主题

Interpret the topic of The Awakening ifrom naturalism perspective

凯特·肖班的代表作《觉醒》被推崇为美国有史以来关于女性生活的最重要的作品,成为女权主义文学的经典作品之一。长期以来,人们不断对其进行深入研究,发现这部写作手法精妙的小说具有进行多角度解读的可能性。文章侧重于从自然主义的视角探讨这部经典之作,揭示环境、生物力等因素对女主人公爱德娜发现自我、追求自立以及性意识的觉醒所产生的不可估量的作用。

Kate Chopin＇s The Awakening is praised as the most important novel about female life in American history and has become one of the feminist classics. Through continuous studies on this novel, peopie have found that it can be interpreted from different kinds of perspectives. This paper focuses on interpreting the themes of The Awak- ening from a naturalist perspective. It shows that environment and biology play a key role in the protagonist - Edna＇s self-development and sexual awakening.