论《水浒传》女英雄形象的时代价值

中国古典文学中的女性形象大多才貌双全、温柔顺从,缺乏独立的人格和意识。而施耐庵在《水浒传》中却塑造了顾大嫂、孙二娘、扈三娘三位迥异于传统的女性形象。通过对她们与中国古代文学中传统的女性形象外在相貌和内在精神意识方面的比较分析可知,她们改变了中国古典文学中女性角色意识附属于男权文化和缺乏女性主体意识的狭隘格局。从这三位女英雄身上看到中国古典文学中女性角色意识的初步觉醒。

The majority of the female figures in Chinese classical literature are beautiful, talented, gentle and obedient, but not independent in personality as well as in psycholoty. However, Shi Naian, in his masterpiece Outlaws of the Marsh, created quite a few brand new figures, such as Gu Dasao, Sun Erniang and Hu Sanniang. With a comparison of the appearances and inner hearts between the three characters and those in Chinese classical literature, it can be concluded that these three female characters reflected a great change in the Chinese literary history, in that the female figures were no longer the subsidiary of male - dominated culture due to the lack of the sense of subjectivity, which is a mark of the early feminist consciousness and literary transformation.