文档介绍：湘潭大学
硕士学位论文
福克纳小说中的女性形象与女性意识探析
姓名:王志勇
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:罗婷
20050501
摘要
勿容置疑,女性形象在福克纳的小说中有着举足轻重的位
置。在他一生所写的众多长篇和短篇小说中,福克纳塑造了一系
列形象各异、耐人寻味的妇女形象,可谓无所不包。从上流社会
的名门之女,到普通女性,再到下层黑人女性;从守身如玉的贞
女到放荡不羁的浪女;从纯洁可爱的淑女到心如毒蝎的恶妇;从
逆来顺受的怨妇到叛逆、追求自由的烈女,福克纳都有触及,而
且栩栩如生,入木三分。作为一个热切关注人类命运的作家,福
克纳对那些熬得最苦的南方女性倾注了复杂的感情,作者的创作
思想、价值观念和作品的艺术感染力在她们的身上也得到了最充
分、最完美的体现。本文首先从心理分析批评和女性主义批评
的视角对福克纳几部女性中心小说进行探察与分析,将其笔下的
女性形象分为三种类型,并分别予以阐述。一类是以凯蒂为代表
的为福克纳所钟爱的女性,她们有些堕落但善良,她们温柔但叛
逆,她们不守妇道,追求自我,是人性的象征,是福克纳的“最
爱”;第二类是以艾迪为代表的母亲形象,她们自私,虚无,冷
漠,精神空虚,性格复杂,充满矛盾,且充当南方妇道观的卫道
士;第三类是以潭波尔为代表的堕落女性,她们游戏人生,自甘
堕落,将南方父权制所定格的淑女观反叛到极点。其后,本文将
重点探讨导致南方妇女命运悲剧的南方父权制以及贞操观与淑
女观。福克纳在他那卷帙浩繁的作品中描述了形形色色的南方女
性,在这些女性中,她们绝大多数内心骚动不安,她们的灵魂为
Abstract
There is no denying that women characters play a pivotal role
in Faulkner’s novels. In his novels, Faulkner affords the readers a
whole gallery of vivid portraits of the Southern women of all strata.
In his novels, Faulkner foresees the Southern Patriarchy’s inevitable
fall, and he demonstrates a genuine sympathy for the women in the
Yoknapatawpha County. In this dissertation, lengthy accounts will,
firstly, be given to the detailed exploration to three types of women
characters in Faulkner’s novels from the perspective of
Psychoanalytical criticism and Feminist criticism. First, Caddy in
The Sound and the Fury, the reason that she is in the choice
company lies in her special position in Faulkner’s depiction of
women characters. Being Faulkner’s “heart’s darling”, Caddy is at
the core of the novel, all the other characters serve to tell her story.
What’s more, she is also a flapper-type woman against her
traditional female place in society, a sensitive, a beautiful girl, but
given to bitchery from her early teens. Second, Addie Bundren in
As I Lay Dying. Like Caddy, Addie is also at the center of the entire
novel, as all the other characters react to her life and her death. And
she is a great Faulkner creation and