无翼的天使 失声的女妖——析《暴风雨》中的女性形象

The Wingless Angel and the Speechless Banshee——An Analysis of Women Characters in The Tempest

莎士比亚著名传奇剧《暴风雨》表达了其深邃的人文主义思想,其中仅有的两位女性,米兰达和女妖西考拉克斯,一正一邪,分别代表了至善和至恶,其不同的命运代表了莎翁惩恶扬善的愿望。本文用女性主义对两位女性形象进行探讨,说明《暴风雨》体现了莎士比亚强烈的男权意识,而其中的女性更是在父权的统治下,被限制、边缘、妖魔化了。

Shakespeare＇s famous drama The Tempest shows his deep humanist beliefs. The two women in this work, the virtuous Miranda and the vicious Syeorax, represent goodness and evll respectively. Their different fate conveys Shakespeare＇s good intention of rewarding virtue and punishing vice. This article applies feminism to analyze the characters of these two women. It holds that The Tempest expresses Shakespeare＇s male chauvinism, and the female in this works are oppressed and demonized under patriarchal domination.