A Study of Lady Macbeth’s Tragedy from the Perspective of Feminist Criticism

Macbeth is one of the four great tragedies penned by English playwright, William Shakespeare. Lady Macbeth, the primary tragic female character in the play, seems to be different from other typical female roles portrayed by Shakespeare, and is often characterized by the world as vicious and ambitious. Being in a patriarchal society, Lady Macbeth awakens to female self-awareness and lust for power. She silently rebels against the oppression and constraints imposed by the society, ultimately paying the price of her life. By analyzing the process of Lady Macbeth’s subversion of the identity of the Other from the perspective of feminist criticism, this article offers a new interpretation of Lady Macbeth’s image and delves into the underlying causes of her tragedy. It suggests that it is often difficult for women to break free from the oppressive shackles of a patriarchal society in their pursuit for equality, freedom and power. The path to women’s liberation is long and arduous, which still requires unwavering efforts and perseverance from all.

A Feminist Reading of Hemingway’s Works-“Cat in the Rain”as an Example

As a famous American writer,there have been many different opinions on whether Hemingway is a typical masculinist writer.Through a brief analysis of the feminist consciousness in Hemingway’s works and a detailed feminist interpretation of“Cat in the Rain”,this paper holds that it is unfair and biased to stereotype Hemingway as a typical masculinist writer since there is a very strong feminist consciousness in his early works.

An Auto-ethnographic Observation:Hashtag Activism in Chinese Post-Feminist Age

This paper provides an auto-ethnographic observation of hashtag feminist activism on Weibo, setting in a context of post-feminism age in China. Two subjects, the Hot Search List and its Public Discussion Forum, were chose to examine the complexity of the current situation of this hashtag activism. An auto-ethnographic methodology was used to interrogate the states quo of Chinese online feminist movement, revealing gender-centric discussions reinforcing stereotypes under the guise of equality. Misogynistic narratives, algorithmic constraints, censorship, and official opposition pose significant barriers to feminist discourse. Nonetheless, the study identifies a potential for hashtag activism within Weibo’s discourse, offering a space for resistance. By acknowledging these challenges, this paper seeks to empower Chinese feminists to challenge dominant narratives and advocate for their rights.

Gender in translation and feminist translation strategies

Translation has been regarded as the subordination and complementation of the original discourse in the long history of human society, and the loyalty of the wife to the husband has been the metaphor of the relationship between translated version and the original discourse. By using supplementing, prefacing, and hijacking, the feminist translation rewrites the original discourse creatively in order to overwhelming the authority of the original discourse even the male-governed society.

Feminist Motifs in William Faulkner

As we all know, William Faulkner shows really concern for the Southern people, especially the Southern women who suffer the most. In Faulkner's works women characters play an important role, which is confirmed. After the theories of feminist literary come to understand Faulkner criticism, critics to Faulkner's novels drafting an encouraging response detect the author himself either as a pro-feminist or a misogynist. On analyzing the woman characters through Addie and Lena Grove—the women images in As I Lay Dying and Light in August, we found out that Faulkner is neither simple a pro-feminist nor a misogynist in the patriarchal society.

The Feminist Consciousness of Dorothy Hewett

Born in Perth, Western Australia, Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923-25 August 2002) was a well-known poet, novelist and dramatist. The feminist movement in Australia began at the end of the 19 th century. But in Dorothy's time, Australian society was still a male-dominated society. Women were defined as daughters, sisters, lovers, wives, mothers, grandmothers, domestic treasure, except as themselves. They were not given many chances and were treated differently from men. However, Dorothy hated all those roles given by the society to women and was determined to pursue her dream as an actress and a writer. She advocated sexual freedom, demanded equal pay for women workers, and as one of the founder members of the Union of Australian women, she also started the first left-wing Australian women's journal. In all her life, Dorothy had been struggling for the realization of her self-value and fighting against the male-dominated society.

George Eliot's Humanistic View and Feminist View

George Eliot is a great authoress in the Victorian age. She has made great contribution in many fields such as: philoso phy, literature and humanism. However she is a controversial novelist as well not only because her life experience which revolts against the traditional way of life at that time but also her unique humanistic and feminist view. The purpose of the study is to get the panoramic view of George Eliot.

The Feminist Tendency in Hotel du Lac

It is true that some important feminist literary theories apply to Hotel du Lac,which illustrates clearly Brookner’s deep concern over modern women’s predicament in favor of their interests,and thus proves her strong tendency to feminism.And then it is pointed out that the reason for Brookner’s perverse attitude toward feminism mainly lies in her unwillingness to confine herself to the category of feminism and actually Brookner has transcended the more stereotypical feminism.

Translation Studies within the Framework of Feminism- Implications and Limitations of Feminist Translation

Feminist Translation is the translation studies within the framework of feminism, which breaks the shackles ot binary opposition in traditional translation theory and its distinctive feature is the subversion of fidelity in traditional translation theory, it reinterprets the relationship between the translation and the original text, the translator and the original author. Feminist translation is significant in various aspects under the goal of achieving gender equality. Meanwhile, it is necessary to note that feminist translation has some limitations and criticism for its intervention of original text and overstate of feminist identity. So this essay is trying to reflect on translations within the frame of feminism, in which includes the contribution and limitation of feminist translation.

Bernard Shaw is an Incomplete Feminist—A Feminist Semiotic Reading of Candida

As an advocate for feminism,George Bernard Shaw,to awaken especially women to their subordinate and captivated posi⁃tion and opportunity for being New woman,wrote Candida in a time when women were stuck into“the virgin mother”role.Howev⁃er,from the perspective of feminist semiotic theory,we found that although creating a new woman different from the one defined by the common standard,Bernard Shaw still didn’t break the chain of portraying a“sign woman”-“the virgin mother”controlled by the patriarchal prejudice from male gaze.In addition,Candida becomes an object portrayed through two men characters and she be⁃comes the means to expose the developing of man character rather than the subject in the play.And Shaw’s limited feminism is al⁃so reflected in his other plays.Therefore,Bernard Shaw is an incomplete feminist.

Adaptation of The Joy Luck Club: From a Feminist Text to a Cultural Film

What I am going to write about The Joy Luck Club is the adaptation from the text to a film. We know that Amy Tan is a woman, what she has written about in Joy Luck Club reflects more about feminism. And it is a female novel to some extent. The author writes many things from a woman's perspective. But when it was adapted to a film, the director Wayne Wang deemphasized this part, and attached more importance to the Chinese immigrants as a whole group. As a Chinese American male director, he presents the novel mainly in a man's perspective. In this process, the main theme changed greatly. The adaptation of The Joy Luck Club is actually an adaptation from a feminist text to a cultural film.

A Feminist Critique on the Alternative Ending of A Doll's House

A Doll's House is a famous play written by Henrik Ibsen. In the original ending of this play, Nora abandons her children and family. However, we know that Ibsen was also forced to write another ending. In this alternative ending, Nora submits to his husband and returns to her family. This must be disdained by feminists. From the perspective of feminist criticism, this thesis holds that as a woman of liberated spirit, Nora certainly will leave her family as in the original ending writes. This thesis tends to reevaluate this alternative ending and also through analyzing the characteristic of the main character Nora, it concludes that the alternative ending is an insult to its readers.

On Sister Carrie from Feminist Perspective and its Influence on Chinese Modern Women

Sister Carrie is a famous naturalistic novelist-Theodore Dreiser's first novel in the first 20th century.It tells a story of a young rural woman Carrie how to become the red Broadway actress from the bottom of society,and the story vividly depicts the survival state and psychological and ideological process of Carrie.When it was published,it attracted attentions of critics from domestic and abroad at large,and they researched it from different perspectives.But most of their researches discussed from the materialism angle to concern with the expression of Determinism and Darwinism.So far,few people made the research from the topic of Carrie's pursuit of self-achievement and perspective of feminist.Actually,not only did Carrie restrict on the material pursuit,but also boldly in pursuit of the self-achievement of new women.This paper aims at Carrie how to pursue the selfachievement of new women,and the influence of feminist to Chinese modern women.

Katherine Mansfield: A Special Feminist-By a Close Reading of A Dill Pickle

Although Katherine Mansfield never claimed that she was a radical feminist, she showed her concerns and pondered on females through her life of pursuing freedom and independence, her creative writing skills and her short stories. She had her own feminism consciousness and viewpoints. She believed that man and woman were different and living in a different world, and it's very hard to understand and communicate with the other sex. Man dominated the society in the economical and political areas in tradition that they had the speech right and ranked above woman. However, Mansfield saw the hope of the awakening of the feminism awareness.

Pearl S. Buck's Feminist Views Embodied in her Novels

Pearl S. Buck is the first American woman writer who made the East heard in western literature. She is called the"human bridge"for the communication between China and the world outside. She won the Nobel Prize for her rich and genuine description of Chinese peasant life and masterpiece of biography. Being a woman writer, she expressed her great concern to women's life, which could be seen from her famous works. Owing to the special experience in bilingual culture and the assertion of the equality of any cultures in the world, she was a woman with double cultural view: both of Western and Chinese, which must have decided the formation of her feminist views with the Western and Chinese culture basis. In this thesis, her unique feminist views will be illustrated in detail.

An Analysis of Ophelia in Hamlet from the Perspective of Feminist Care Ethic

Through the ages, Ophelia in Hamlet has long been regarded as a childish maid. This thesis will give an analysis of Ophelia's growth from the perspective of feminist care ethic developmental stages theory, trying to illustrate that in the play Ophelia has experienced ethical development and has arrived at ethical maturity in the end.

Pearl S. Buck's Feminist Translation in All Men Are Brothers

Pearl S. Buck is the first woman who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for her devotion to the communication between China and the world outside. Being a female writer, she expresses her great concern for women's life. She is the first to translate the Chinese classics Shui Hu Zhuan into English with the expectation to give a real description about China, which is incredibly popular in American society. With the wakening-up of the women's movement in the west, more and more women writers began to concentrate on a historic project—letting women be heard, women realize that they should not be silent and invisible as they reinterpret the source text into another language. Pearl S. Buck is no exception; in this thesis the strategies of her feminist translation will be illustrated in detail.

Debunking Partriarchy:A Feminist Paradym of Doris Lessing's the Golden Notebook

All human relationships are constructed and defined by the relative power of the interacting persons. Women, most often than not have been defined in all spheres of life in terms of their relationships with men. Most literary texts written by men over the years have tended to give women subordinate roles. A new trend however seems to have emerged with the appearance of women writers on the scene. These writers have sought to reconstruct these negative stereotypes by redefining the role of the woman in the light of current global and contemporary trends. This article sought to examine how Doris Lessing in her Golden Notebook has given voice to feminist concerns through her major protagonist:Anna Wulf. The article specifically looks at how Anna challenges patriarchal conventions and choose to express herself through writing initially considered to be the sole preserve of men. The article used the feminist literary theory as the main instrument for analysis.

The Awakening of Feminist Consciousness

Virginia Woolf in her great novel To the Lighthouse shows her deep concern for women.In this book,she discusses women's spiritual world and the process of the awakening of feminist consciousness,which is represented by Mrs.Ramsay and Lily Briscoe.