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Acknowledgments I would like to express my deepest gratitude to whoever has helped me with my M.A. thesis. I gratefully acknowledge the help of my supervisor, Prof. Guan Hefeng, who has offered me continuous support and valuable suggestions. In the preparation of the thesis, she has spent much time reading through each draft and provided me with inspiring advice. Without her generous guidance and patient revision, the completion of this paper would not have been possible. I also would like to express my gratitude to my friends, Yang Xiang, Zhou Chongyang and my classmates Hu Yunwei, Li Yali. Moreover, all the other professors in Foreign Languages Institute deserve my thanks. They have given me enlightening lectures which have benefited me a lot and provided inspiration for my thesis. Last but not least, I should like to express my deepest love to my beloved parents for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through three years. I I PAGE PAGE IV Abstract Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2014, the authoress Megan Marshall‘s book Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (2013) portraits the life story of a world renowned feminist writer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). She draws heavily upon the primary documents of Margaret‘s life such as her letters, essays, fiction and personal diaries. This biography unveils Margaret from the dustier shelves of history and manifests a pioneering female intellectual who has optimism, persistence and great courage to fight against conventional rules and achieve her self-actualization. The positive traits that she displays all her life empower her with boundless energy to explore her ideal self and live truly as a woman. Positive psychology emerged at the end of the last century. Unlike the conventional psychological analysis which focuses on the mental illness, positive psychology, as a new and developing discipline, explores human being‘s developing potential, virtues, and strengths rather than various psy