《觉醒》中女性身份重构

The Reconstruction of Female Identity in The Awakening

肖邦的《觉醒》揭示了美国妇女在十九世纪末和二十世纪初重构自身社会身份的努力和抗挣。本文探讨了社会对妇女的束缚和爱德娜渴望自由之间的强烈碰撞,由于缺乏明晰而有效的抗挣方法,她自我实现的努力注定要失败;《觉醒》提出了令人深思的问题:女性追求自由,但自由又不可承受,这正是该作品的社会学价值之一。

Kate Chopin＇s The Awakening, published in 1899, depicts American women＇s efforts to reconstruct their identity in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. The paper explores the binary opposition between the social constraints on women and Edna＇s aspiration for independence. However, without a solid way to reconstruct her own identity, Edna is doomed to fail in the process of self - discovery. The novel＇s sociological value lies in its shedding light on the unbearable weight of freedom.