女性主义视角下的《小妇人》中的乔.docx

　　The Study of Jo in Little Women from the Perspective of Feminism 摘 要 　　美国十九世纪后半期著名女作家路易莎·梅·奥尔科特以其长篇小说《小妇人》而闻名于世。这部以19世纪中叶美国内战时期的新英格兰小镇为背景，生动地体现出美国社会的变迁和文化的传承的小说，以家庭日志的形式，讲述了马奇家四姐妹的成长经历，给读者留下了极为深刻的印象。本文以《小妇人》中的女性乔为切入点，通过对其追求独立、平等、真爱的分析，旨在探究乔通过打破传统社会观念的束缚，追求家庭和社会地位的平等、以及勇敢追求真爱最终实现婚姻自由等所表现出的女性主义精神。 关键词：女权主义；独立；平等 Abstract 　　 Louisa May Alcott, an American woman writer in the latter half of the 19th century, is famous for her novel Little Women. This novel, lay down in a small town in New England during the American Civil War in the middle of the 19th century, vividly reflects the changes of American society and the inheritance of American culture. In the form of family diary, it tells the growth experience of the four sisters of the March family and leaves a deep impression on the readers. This paper takes the female Jo in Little Women as the breakthrough point, through the analysis of her pursuit of independence, equality and true love, this paper aims to explore Jo’s feminist spirit by breaking the shackles of traditional social concepts, pursuing the equality of family and social status, and bravely pursuing true love and finally realizing the freedom of marriage. Key words:Feminism; independence;equal Contents Introduction1 Chapter One The Pursuit of Independence3 Spiritual independence3 Physical independence4Chapter Two The Pursuit of True Love7 Breaking secular ideas7 Pursuing mutual understanding8Chapter Three The Pursuit of Equality11 To pursue equal social status11 To pursue equal family status13Conclusion16 Notes16 Bibliography18 Acknowledgements19 Introduction 　　Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. Louisa spent her childhood in Boston and in Concord, Massachusetts, where her days were enlightened by visits to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, excursions into nature with Henry David Thoreau and theatricals in the barn at Hillside. She loved literature when she was young. She was keen on drama productions and performanc