论《摩尔·弗兰德斯》中摩尔的身份建构英语语言文学专业论文.docxVIP

II II Descriptive Chinese Abstract 经济上的稳定，从而真正意义上完成了淑女身份建构的过程。 作为一位男性作者，笛福打破传统文学范式，以一名犯罪女性作为小说的主人公， 展现出他对女性生存的关怀以及对男女平等思想的赞同。本文以摩尔·弗兰德斯对中产 阶级妇女身份的渴求和追求过程为主线展现十八世纪英国社会底层人民，尤其是女性生 存的艰难。摩尔对身份不断追寻的根源在于不平等的社会秩序，其艰难的身份建构过程 一方面表明笛福赞同摩尔所展现出的自我向上发展、在逆境中勇于追求新生的精神，另 一方面也表明在十八世纪英国社会历史语境下，传统的社会伦理和男权主导观念使得女 性自我身份的建构面临着严峻的局限和挑战。 关键词：摩尔·弗兰德斯；女性；身份；困境；建构 Engli English Abstract III III Abstract Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is an important and controversial writer of the eighteenth- century English Literature. He mainly concerns about the ordinary life of the ordinary people and depicts in a matter-of-fact, straightforward manner. The protagonist of Moll Flanders (1722) is the first female character among Daniel Defoe’s novels with first-person narrator. As an orphan in a man-dominated, money-orientated society from the lowest social class, she courageously defies her low birth and eventually manages to achieve the self-designated identity of a gentlewoman. Moll’s female identity and her extraordinary experiences made her a highly ambiguous, problematic character in literary studies. Along with the integration of cultural studies and literary studies, identity becomes one of the focuses to explore the profound meaning of literary works, and nourished and strengthened by studying literary works. This thesis attempts to study Moll Flanders, centering on Moll’s searching for a gentlewoman identity under inferior circumstances, examining her growth in femininity through the various roles as a wife, a thief, a prisoner, a penitent etc., trying to reveal the dilemma of women in the eighteenth-century England and the hardship they paid in changing their fates. At the age of eight, Moll has set up her mind to become a “gentlewoman” whose definition is to “be able to Work for herself, and get enough to keep her without that terrible Bug-bear going to Service”. It not only expresses Moll’s eagerness to have a fixed identity and work independently, but also becomes the fuel of Moll’s life-long self-