女性的塑造——试论《还乡》中哈代男权意识的体现

The Becoming of a Woman—The Masculine Awareness in The Return of the Native

哈代的小说成功塑造了一批特色鲜明,具有现代意识的"新女性",其作品《还乡》的女主人公游苔莎试图超越传统道德规范,大胆探求自身价值。然而,作为男性文本创造的女性形象,本身就是作者意识形态层面上的构想物,成为反观男权文化范式的虚构神话。哈代以男性的视角和叙述模式表达对女性命运的深切关怀,实则将这些女性再度边缘化,客体化。文章拟从女权主义角度出发,结合相关叙事学理论,重新审视游苔莎形象,探讨父权制文明下女性被塑造的神话以及哈代自身暴露出的性别歧视。

Victorian writer Thomas Hardy has successfully created a group of ＂New Women＂ images and oneof them, Eustacia in The Return of The Native is virtually a case in point. In search of her ture rove, tne nero- ine tries to transpass traditional conventions but concludes with death. However rebellious or courageous she presents, Eustacia only appears to be the male writer＇ s ideological assumption, an object remarginalized into another victim in the patriarchal society. With the theory of narratology, this paper will reevaluate the image of Eustacia and probe into Hardy＇ s exhibition of male prejudice.