版权说明:本文档由用户提供并上传,收益归属内容提供方,若内容存在侵权,请进行举报或认领
文档简介
1、在弗吉尼亚伍尔夫女性主义视角下探析到灯塔去中的莉莉布里斯科on woolfs feminisman analysis of lily briscore in to the lighthouse摘 要英国作家弗吉尼亚伍尔夫是二十世纪最具影响力的的文学人物之一,她对于小说、文学批评和许多其他形式的写作做出了巨大的贡献. 伍尔夫著名的意识流和女性主义小说到灯塔去1927年的出版更使她跻身于世界伟大小说家之列.本论文致力于关注小说中莉莉布里斯科所经历的女性主义自我发展过程.首先,本文将对莉莉布里斯科的心路历程做深入的探析,这个过程同时也可以被理解为是对伍尔夫关于现代女性自我觉醒的思考的一种解读.通过对
2、莉莉布里斯科在小说中追求艺术成功的表现,作者揭露了女性艺术家在表现自我和在艺术中保持自我的过程中经历的困苦.拉姆齐夫人的爱庇护着莉莉,使她免受生活的琐碎和男权社会强加于女性艺术家的歧视的困扰,而同时莉莉的绘画又使拉姆齐夫人的爱得以永恒.第二部分,本文基于当时的社会意识形态阐述了伍尔夫特有的女性主义观点:她十分关注女性的经济独立和自主空间,主张结束女性受压抑的状态、结束社会上的家长式制度以达到一种平和的氛围.本文最后对莉莉这个人物从自我发展和艺术创作两方面做深入分析,以期解读交织于小说到灯塔去中的女性主义主题.关键词:女性主义 ; 自我发展 ; 艺术创作abstractenglish write
3、r virginia woolf, one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century, has made great contributions to the creation of novels, critical essays and other forms of writings. the publication of the famous stream-of-consciousness and feminist novel一to the lighthouse in 1927 established
4、 her as a major novelist. this paper focuses on the self-development process experienced by lily briscore on the sphere of feminism. firstly, it will give a thorough exploration into the lilys mental journey which could also be regarded as an interpretation of woolfs feminism thoughts on modern wome
5、ns self-realization. through the presentation of lily briscoes struggles to achieve artistic success, the writer reveals the hardship experienced by a woman artist in her expressing herself and maintaining herself in art. it is mrs ramsays love that shelters lily briscoe from the fragments of life,
6、and the discrimination imposed on the woman artist by the male-dominating society, and eventually completes her artistic creation thus the fulfillment of her self as a young woman artist. it is her painting that visualizes mrs. ramsays everlasting love, and it is also through her art of letter that
7、woolf calls the revaluation of womens values. secondly, my paper will illustrate woolfs feminism viewpoints on the background of feminism ideology in her time. she attaches much importance to financial independence and autonomous space of the female, argues that securing peace depends on the end to
8、womens oppression, and an end to hierarchical stratification of society. thirdly, this paper will analyze the character of lily on the aspects of self-development and artistic creation, expecting to interpret the elusive feminism meaning woven in to the lighthouse. key words: feminism; self-developm
9、ent; artistic creation contents. introduction1. an exploration into lilys mental journey.3a. pursuit.3b. confusion.5 c. surpassing.6. woolfs feminism thoughts.8a. women in woolfs day.8b. woolfs concept of feminism.8. an interpretation of lily briscore on the sphere of feminism.11a. on lilys self-rea
10、lization11b. on lilys artistic creation.12. conclusion14. notes.15. bibliography.16. acknowledgements.18. introductionvirginia woolf (1882-1941) is one of the most prominent literary figures of the twentieth century like her contemporary james joyce, with whom she is often compared. woolf is remembe
11、red as one of the most innovative novelists of the stream of consciousness. concerned primarily with depicting the life of the mind, she revolted against the traditional narrative techniques of bennet, wells, and gaisworthy, and developed her own highly individualized style. woolfs works, noted for
12、their poetic and symbolic quality and their delicacy and sensitivity of style, have had a lasting effect on the art of the novel.to the lighthouse is generally regarded as the best work of virginia woolf. edwin muirs words, “its aim is high and serious, its technique brilliant”. 1 since the novel tr
13、eats woolfs favorite themes of marriage, time, and death and in a further maturation of her subjective mode, plot is completely abandoned, with unity and coherence provided instead by imagery, symbolism, and poetic elements, it is difficult to exhaust the meaning of the story. dorothy brewster says:
14、 “mrs woolf exposes her reader to constellations of stimuli, which form patterns of many motifs, the shape and color of each depending largely upon its relationship to each part of the whole design.”2it seems that nothing happens, in this houseful of odd nice people, and yet all of life happens. we
15、have seen, through her, the world. to the lighthouse, since its publication in 1930s, has been studied from varied theoretical perspectives. in britain and america, the majority of critics prior to the 1970s approached it principally as a modernist aesthetic work, largely in terms of its narrative t
16、echniques and form, while in the last thirty years it has been the subject of psychoanalytic and deconstructionist criticisms. it can be clearly seen in most criticism that woolfs life has been probed in recent years as rich ground for psychological inquiry and feminist pathbreaking. yet little atte
17、ntion has been paid to woolfs intense preoccupation with the relationship between feminism and artistic creation. as an artist, woolf naturally considers life in a special way, which is mirrored by lily briscoe, who paints, in to the lighthouse. being a painter of impressionism, lily is always engag
18、ed in the problems originated from life and art. she burdens pressure of artistic creation and the identity of being a woman, and leads a difficult way which, fortunately, takes her to success in the end.this paper intends to give a thorough exploration into the self-development process experienced
19、by lily bricore in to the lighthouse, on the sphere of feminism. various approaches will be applied and i believe it will suffice us an opportunity to have a better understanding of the elusive masterpiece in the perspective of lily briscore, a seemingly subordinate, but critically crucial figure. a
20、n exploration into lilys mental journey lilys voyage in the book is the process of her realization of painting a portrait of an artist of a woman with her own brush. as an artist, lily is sensitive to the separation of life and the minute possibility of arts authentic reflection of life; and meanwhi
21、le the self-consciousness of being a woman further hinders her approach to artistic creation. she is beset with contradictory emotions resulting form the desire to paint in free inspiration and the inability to break out of her self-consciousness.lily briscoes self-development is based on her compre
22、hension of mrs. ramsay from the moment when the elder woman poses for her painting to the recognition that “there she sat”3 ten years laterfrom the elder womens physical presence to her spiritual prevalence. lily experiences a process resembling to a childs maturation: from the longing for shelterin
23、g under a mother, to the suffering caused by the loss of the mother, and to the final approach to an independent selfhood with a discovery of the essence of the mother. her painting is a reflection of the mothers essence as well as a record of the accumulation of her moments of self-realization, whi
24、ch is mostly initiated through her relations with mrs. ramsay. mrs. ramsay does provide her with a possibility of wholeness against the fragmentation she perceives and the anguish she suffers in her painting. but meanwhile, lily is also pulled into the elder womans emotional manipulation, and is thr
25、eatened by a possibility of loss of autonomy as well as artistic creativity. so, while desiring to identify herself with mrs. ramsay, she is simultaneously fighting against the urge to dissolve herself in the other woman who would annihilate her struggle for selfhood. if in part i, lilys fighting fo
26、r her own identity is only indicated by her rejection to mrs. ramsays matchmaking, in part iii, her struggle is much more intensified since she is confronted with the emptiness haunting her life after mrs. ramsays death, and she is, on one hand, endeavoring to get free from her emotional dependency
27、on the elder woman, and on the other hand, seeking to internalize and eternalize mrs. ramsays personality in herself. only after her desire for mrs. ramsay from a physical presence to a spiritual internalization can her self-development be culminated and a new horizon be unveiled to her.a. pursuit l
28、ily, a mature woman, no longer views painting as a possible refuge but rather a tool she intends to master so as to present the world in her own perception. however, she is deprived of the freedom to maintain her subjectivity due to her sex. the whisper that “women cant paint, women cant write”4 has
29、 been engraved in her consciousness rather than charles tansleys male-chauvinistic statement. as a result, she senses herself under observation and in painting, she has to subdue all her impressions as a woman to something much more general. exhausted by the intensified emotion of alienation between
30、 her true vision and the practical creation, she is in a profound desire of a unity with mrs. ramsay.in part i of the novel, lilys desire for a unity with mrs. ramsay is most intensified as she is painting to mrs. ramsays pose. lily presents herself as a guest to the ramsays but not a daughter. this
31、 position enables her to be a more objective observer of the family, but it also keeps her as an outsider of the mother-and-children bond. mrs. ramsay sitting with her son james and telling a story to him appears to lily that she is in the strongest eagerness to be not as a lonely island of paradise
32、, which only attached to and but also included in. to lily, a woman artist, to gain her objectivity means to preserve her subjectivity of vision. although through her painting, she is linked to mrs. ramsay in a visionary world, she is not safe mentally or physically. and the eagerness to join togeth
33、er with mrs. ramsay so as to be in a solid wholeness is so strong that she longs for, beyond the remote spiritual tie, a physical intimacy with her: “could loving, as people called it, make her and mrs. ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, but intimacy itself, which is kn
34、owledge .”5 the desire drowns her artistic inspiration, and to be sheltered from the observation of mr. ramsay and the whisper that “women cant paint, women cant write”,6 she impulsively longs to fling herself at mrs. ramsays knee. ironically, mrs. ramsay herself believes in the whispering voice tha
35、t “women cant paint, women cant write” when she does protect lily from the intrusion of mr. ramsay. so the young artists rejection to her spiritual mothers design for her life is inevitable unless she gives up her pursuit of her desire to paint in order to inherit the traditional role, which means t
36、o her the loss of autonomy.lilys rejection to marriage is in continuity with her pursuit of a unity with mrs. ramsay as well as an attempt to surpass the limitation of the elder woman. through her observation of the ramsays marriage, she sees mrs. ramsays over-dependence on others, her husband in pa
37、rticular, for an identity, a lack of autonomy, and the threat of self-exhaustion in serving others. lilys pursuit of completion in artistic creation naturally leads her to dodge marriage, which assigns women to the traditional wife-and-mother role. to her, marriage indicates the need to smother her
38、own voice in artistic expression and to accept the assumption that “women cant paint, women cant write”. even mrs. ramsay, despite her fondness of lily due to the younger womans independency, cares not a fig for her painting, and assumes that an unmarried woman has missed the best of life, but to li
39、ly herself, to paint is to be herself, and to be alone is also what she likes. even if in doing so, she does miss the best of life, it is worthwhile. the love she longs for is one far more visionary than the limited affection between one man and one woman, one with thousands of shapes, one that: “ne
40、ver attempted to clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of the human gain”. 7 in her perception of love, lily consciously deviates from the specific manipulation of mrs ramsay on her
41、 life, and intends to create a larger vision for herself.nevertheless, lily does not succeed in realizing this larger vision until she is able to transcend her desire to unite herself with the mrs. ramsay sitting there, telling a story and knitting to the revelation that the archetypal mother has be
42、en part of her spiritually. there is a narrative blankness concerning the reason for lilys not finishing the painting after the dinner party, but it is safe to assume that she fails to do it because of the haunting voice and again her impulse to join herself with mrs. ramsay, which disrupts her cont
43、inuity in creation. b. confusion lilys vision that has developed in part i is greatly dependent on that of mrs. ramsay, the focus of her painting as well as the center of her vision. mrs. ramsay s death having left the center empty, life presents to her as disintegrated patches floating here and the
44、re chaotically, leaving her attached to nowhere. she is compelled into a quest of meaning out of meaninglessness, a center out of emptiness: “what does it mean then, what can it all mean? for really, what did she feel, come back after all these years and mrs. ramsay dead? nothing, nothingnothing tha
45、t she could express at all.”8 the emotional protection offered by the spiritual mother has been broken by the death, so lily is exposed to the harsh world, being too fragile to confront it alone, either to stand against it or to embrace it as mrs. ramsay has done. mr. ramsay, the harsh fatherly figu
46、re, becomes a hypothetical enemy to her, threatening to ruin her painting. lilys encounter with him is painful but inescapable, so correspondent to the imaginary hostility brought to her consciousness by mr. ramsay, she intends to be hostile to him. by doing so, she is entrapped in another stroke of
47、 anguish for the loss of mrs. ramsay and a feeling of inadequacy for being unable to give sympathy to mr. ramsay. with the step where mrs. ramsay used to sit being empty and mr. ramsay is approaching, lily is beset in a dilemma with the impossibility to be loved and the impotence to love. her vision
48、 and the factual world are in deep conflicts, so the harmony in painting is beyond her reach.when the desired harmony is not achieved, both the artist and art evade their role expressing, or interpreting or cherishing the deepest and most universal significance of life. not only a separation between
49、 her subjectivity and the external objectivity does lily suffer, but also alienation between her role as an artist and the value of art. her art fails her vision consistently: there remains a wide gap between her ideas and practice. her consciousness is once again invaded by the haunting voice that
50、“women cant paint, women cant write”; she fails to unite her vision with the outer things, of which she actually loses consciousness occasionally. the self she is endeavoring to preserve in art is in danger as she stands in the reality like “an unborn soul, a soul left of body, hesitating on some wi
51、ndy pinnacle and exposes without protection to all the blasts of doubt”. 9 as a matter of fact, painting itself has no meaning to her: she senses it will be minute, ignored, and most importantly, it carries little of her own subjectivity.c. surpassing all the meanings having seemingly evaded her, li
52、ly is in an increasingly acute need for mrs. ramsay. not until she ceases thinking of mrs. ramsay as a person guiding her toward meaning but to identify her with meaning itself can lily overcome the emptiness left by mrs. ramsays physical absence, and discover something permanent in mrs. ramsay. lil
53、ys voyage to her final discovery of the permanent light of mrs. ramsay parallels to the ramsays voyage to the lighthouse. in a quest for what is the meaning of life, lily is revealed that revelation comes through little daily miracles and illumination. she gradually perceives the permanent presence
54、of mrs. ramsays love embodied in her most trivial activities, and with this understanding, she is spiritually unified with the mother. lily is on the right way to untie the knot in her mind, to understand the ramsays more thoroughly, and to complete her painting. together with her discovery of mrs.
55、ramsays limitation and even her irony at the elder womans enthusiasm in marriage, she bestows her tribute to mrs. ramsays emotional power.so far, lilys perception of mrs. ramsay has eventually transformed from the fact that “the step where she used to sit was empty”10 to the vision that “there she s
56、at”. lily is able to accept the physical absence of mrs. ramsay, and with the understanding of her permanent spiritual presence, she is relieved of the tension the outer world puts on her and revealed that “ you and i and she pass and vanish; nothing stays; all changes; but not words, not paint ”. 1
57、1 her painting is the reflection of the essence of both women: it is a portrait of a lady and a portrait of an artist. it is due to mrs. ramsays love that lily discovers that love has a thousand shapes and life is not empty but still whole. and it is due to this discovery that she sees the necessity to create a balance between mrs. ramsay and her painting. mrs. ramsays love becomes the source of lilys inspiration as well as the protection against the fragmentary reality. by the love she gains from mrs. ramsay she is enabled to
温馨提示
- 1. 本站所有资源如无特殊说明,都需要本地电脑安装OFFICE2007和PDF阅读器。图纸软件为CAD,CAXA,PROE,UG,SolidWorks等.压缩文件请下载最新的WinRAR软件解压。
- 2. 本站的文档不包含任何第三方提供的附件图纸等,如果需要附件,请联系上传者。文件的所有权益归上传用户所有。
- 3. 本站RAR压缩包中若带图纸,网页内容里面会有图纸预览,若没有图纸预览就没有图纸。
- 4. 未经权益所有人同意不得将文件中的内容挪作商业或盈利用途。
- 5. 人人文库网仅提供信息存储空间,仅对用户上传内容的表现方式做保护处理,对用户上传分享的文档内容本身不做任何修改或编辑,并不能对任何下载内容负责。
- 6. 下载文件中如有侵权或不适当内容,请与我们联系,我们立即纠正。
- 7. 本站不保证下载资源的准确性、安全性和完整性, 同时也不承担用户因使用这些下载资源对自己和他人造成任何形式的伤害或损失。
最新文档
- 2025年度厨房厨师长团队聘用与绩效管理合同4篇
- 2025年度城乡水利工程劳务分包施工协议4篇
- 2025年中国控油面膜行业市场调查研究及投资前景预测报告
- 2025年双组分环氧富锌底漆行业深度研究分析报告
- 2025年中国文娱消费行业发展潜力分析及投资方向研究报告
- 2025年中国瓷质蓄热填料行业市场发展前景及发展趋势与投资战略研究报告
- 2025年度木饰面产品环保性能测试与评估合同4篇
- 二零二五版个人住宅分租管理合同范本2篇
- 2025年度金融商务区场地规则与条款详细约定合同4篇
- 2025年电池检测测试设备市场分析报告
- 人教版初中语文2022-2024年三年中考真题汇编-学生版-专题08 古诗词名篇名句默写
- 2024-2025学年人教版(2024)七年级(上)数学寒假作业(十二)
- 山西粤电能源有限公司招聘笔试冲刺题2025
- 医疗行业软件系统应急预案
- 使用错误评估报告(可用性工程)模版
- 《精密板料矫平机 第2部分:技术规范》
- 2024光伏发电工程交流汇流箱技术规范
- 旅游活动碳排放管理评价指标体系构建及实证研究
- 2022年全国职业院校技能大赛-电气安装与维修赛项规程
- 2024年黑龙江省政工师理论知识考试参考题库(含答案)
- 四年级上册脱式计算300题及答案
评论
0/150
提交评论