父权社会:束缚两性的牢笼——简评《欢乐之家》

Patriarchal Society Being a Cage for Both the Female and the Male:an Analysis of The House of Mirth

长篇风俗小说《欢乐之家》是美国著名女作家伊迪斯.华顿的成名之作。小说通过女主人翁莉莉.巴特悲惨的命运揭示了女性成为了父权社会的无辜牺牲品,同时小说也道出一个事实:尽管男性是父权社会规则的制定者,但是这些规则在约束女性的同时也限制了男性的角色,阻碍了他们自身的发展。本文通过对父权制压力下的两性角色和地位进行重新定位,揭示了父权社会下男性和女性的生存困境。

The House of Mirth,a lengthy customary novel,was written by famous American writer Edith Wharton.This novel is one of her two masterpieces.It reveals a fact that the female is the sacrificial lamb of the patriarchal society through the tragic fate of the heroine Lily Bart.Meanwhile,it also infers an inevitable phenomenon： the male is the maker of the rules of the patriarchal society,but these rules inhibit the female,and also restrict the male,thus hinder the development of their own.This paper reveals the survival plight of the male and the female in the patriarchy society through the relocation of the roles and the status of the two sexes under the pressure of patriarchy.