Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, fr...Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, from which Jewett's preference of androgyny is fully expressed. In this novel, androgyny is used as a means by Jewett to achieve her feministic idea of the equality between men and women and that neither of the sex has prejudice upon the other in this combination. Through a detailed textual analysis, this paper reveals the androgyny elements in this novel and discusses about the possibility of androgyny as a way out for feminism.展开更多
Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second...Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.展开更多
文摘Inhabited by women with male characteristics and men possessing female features, the Dunnet Landing in Sarah Orne Jewett's masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs is depicted as a harmonious land of beauty, from which Jewett's preference of androgyny is fully expressed. In this novel, androgyny is used as a means by Jewett to achieve her feministic idea of the equality between men and women and that neither of the sex has prejudice upon the other in this combination. Through a detailed textual analysis, this paper reveals the androgyny elements in this novel and discusses about the possibility of androgyny as a way out for feminism.
文摘Everyone is living with two hearts.One is controlled by the social rules and moral standards while the other is possessed by wild fantasies that go against the conventions.The first may be called reason and the second inner passion.More often than not people try to behave as good and normal as the society expects them to be but keep a tight lid on their feelings that do not fit in the moral requirements.Struggling between the two,a lot of writers have delved into the discussion of the humanity division,attempting to seek for the wholeness of humanity again.Chopin and Melville are without exception.Their characters-Edna and IshmaelAhab are all beings with split minds and fragmentary personalities.Through frustrations and determinations,those characters demonstrate the sorrows of incomplete humanity and lead readers to aware their own incompleteness,think about the issue seriously and make up their mind to pursuit the wholeness of their soul.
