《奥多芙的神秘》中的女性意识探究英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

山东 山东师范大学硕士学位论文 Abstract Ann Radcliffe‘s The Mysteries of Udolpho is one of the best Gothic novels in the eighteenth century. Some critics and social criticisms focus on it since its release in 1794. The study on Gothic novels has drawn more and more attention since 1920s, especially after the Second World War. However, the researches on the Gothic novels in China don‘t keep up with those of western countries. Relatively speaking, few academics study traditional gothic novels and female gothic novels, especially on The Mysteries of Udolpho. This paper aims to analyze Ann Radcliffe‘s The Mysteries of Udolpho by focusing on its text, and further, to reveal female consciousness of fighting for freedom and self-realization through exploring female characters. This paper studies the construction of female consciousness through obedience, oppression and rebellion, female consciousness awakening in the Mysteries of Udolpho in order to provide a research view for female gothic novel. This thesis consists of five chapters along with an introduction and a conclusion. Introduction includes literature review and research significance of Ann Radcliffe. Chapter one describes gentlewomen‘s internalized obedience in the 18th century of England from three aspects: the backgrounds of the gentlewomen‘s subordinate status, the anonymous women writer as a gentlewoman and the traditional women Marchioness and Madame St. Aubert‘s obedience manifested in the text. The enslaved women transformed such qualities made by men as obedience, innocence, passivity, purity and kindness into their indispensable characters. Chapter two illustrates men‘s oppression and women‘s rebellion. The paper analyzes women‘s oppressed state through ―gothic villain‖ ―castle‖ and ―door‖ in the patriarchal society. Then it displays women‘s rebellion to men‘s repression such as Madame Montoni and Laurentini. Because of the powerful patriarchy systems and social reality, their hyst