20世纪初女性的社会地位——论《喧哗与骚动》中凯蒂的悲剧色彩

Women's Social Status in the Early 20th Century—On Candy's Tragedy in the Sound and the Fury

在威廉·福克纳的代表作品《喧哗与骚动》中,女主人公凯蒂,美丽善良,富有爱心,但却由于家庭的压力和落后的封建主义以及传统的准则,使她从一个纯洁的女孩变成了一个轻佻浪荡的女人。作者通过塑造这样的悲剧形象有力地抨击了传统道德标准的妇道形象,深刻地揭示了在20世纪初期,女性的社会地位极端的低下,她们不能得到公平的对待,只能享有极少的经济,政治以及教育的权利。从而进一步揭露了社会对人性的压制和摧残。

In the Sound and the Fury, Faulkner＇s first masterpiece, the heroine Caddy was a beautiful, kind, and warm-hearted girl. However, just bexause of the pressure that her family gave, and the traditional, idealized Southern code, she became a promiscuous, degenerate woman from a pure girl. By portaying such a tragic character, Faulkner strongly criticized the women images in traditional code and deeply showed a fact that in the early 20th century women had a low social status and were treated unfairly. At that time, women got only few economical, political and educational rights. Thus Faalkner further revealed the suppression and devastation of society to human nature.