《占有》.docx

AbstractPossession belongs to the Neo-Victorian novel. In this novel, Byatt creatively reproduces the true life of female intellectuals living in the Victorian Age and revives the distorted images of the female by the traditional male-dominated culture.Through the letters,dairies and poems by the Victorian females, Byatt tries to reveal the truth of existential and the psychological status of those females marginalized by the patriarchal society, deconstruct and subvert the male-centered narrative discourse in the traditional text and put forward her feminists view that females will move from margin to center in future society. This paper thought the usage of character analysis method, aims to better control Byatts feminism thought.This paper intends to offer a fresh analysis of the book from the authors own view to literature. The emphasis in this analysis is on three subjects which Byatt very often approached in her works but never as poignant than in Possession: feminism, the nature of fiction and the overrating of literary theories. This paper contains four part: The first part is the literature review, including the brief introduction of Byatt, possession, the feminism, through the analysis of this part, we can get a general understanding of this novel, its influence and the feminism ideas of Byatt. The second part is the discussion about the feminism in this novel and Byatts artistic technology in Possession. Including The Symbols in Possession to Present Feminism Thoughts, and the Unique Narrative Stragegy and Feminism. Through the analysis in this part, we can get a better understanding of Byatts feminism narrative strategies, then learn more about the feminism view in this novel. The third part is the main part of this paper, ie. the analysis of the female characters in this novel, these female characters are all the typical representitive of the feminism. Through the analysis of them, we can learn the female psychological states and social living conditions in The Victorian Period, moreover, through the analysis, we can know the strong feminism contained in the authors inner world. The four th part is the conclusion. In this part, the author concludes the related findings and future research development trend about this thesis.Keywords：patriarchal society; feminism; critical ideas摘 要占有属于维多利亚时期的小说。在该小说中，拜尔特创造性地再现了维多利亚时期的女知识性分子的真实生活，并唤醒了长期受男权文化控制而曲解的女性意识。通过维多利亚时期女性的信件、日记以及诗歌，拜尔特尝试揭示存在的真理和处于男权社会边缘的女性心理状态，并结构和颠覆了传统叙事中以男性为中心的观点，并提出了她女性主义的观点，即，在未来的社会中，女性将会从边缘社会走向中心。本文通过采用人物分析法对主要人物进行分析，旨在令读者们更好地掌握拜尔特的女性主义思想。本文从拜厄特自己对文学的观点角度作出对占有的全新解析。 本文分析的重点是拜厄特经常在其写作中探讨,尤其在占有中最为显著的三个主题:女性主义、小说的性质以及对文学理论的过分倚重。 本文主要从四个方面展开进行论述：第一部分是文献综述部分，包括对作者、小说及女性主义的简要论述。通过这个部分的分析，我们可以对该小说有更全面的了解，并对该小说的影响以及拜尔特的女性主义做以认识。第二部分主要探讨该部小说的女性主义，以及拜尔特的女性叙事策略，包括对一些展现女性思想的事物的象征及叙事技巧，通过该部分的研究，可以使读者更高地了解拜尔特的女性观点，第三部分是本文的重点，主要是对本文一些关键的女性角色进行的分析。这些角色可以说都是典型的女性主义的代表，通过对她们的分析和了解，我们可以更好地了解维多利亚时期的女性心理状态以及社会生存状况,而且通过分析，我们可以更好地了解作者内心的很强的女性主义意识。第四部分为本文的总结部分，主要总结了该小说研究中的发现，不足以及未来的发展趋势。关键词：族长统治社会；女权主义；批判观念Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION1Chapter One LITERATURE REVIEW21.1 About the Author21.2 About the Work21.3 About Feminism3Chapter Two UNFOLDING FEMINISM FROM THE ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED BY A.S. BYATT IN POSSESSION52.1 The Symbols in Possession to Present Feminism Thoughts52.2 The Unique Narrative Stragegy and Feminism62.1.1. Discovery of suspenseful letters62.2.2. Content of correspondences and journals6Chapter Three THE ANALYSIS OF THE WOMEN CHARACTER IN POSSESSION103.1 Lamotte103.2 Maud123.3 Val143.4 Alan15CONCLUSION17WORKS CITED19ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS22INTRODUCTIONThis preliminary feminist study of Possession aims to focus on the analysis of the feminine narration of the novel with a view to interpreting the feminist implications of the narrative strategies, which challenge and disrupt the conventional masculine narrative and justifying the feminist stance of Byatt. In addition, this paper through the use of the character image analysis method, aims to reveal the female psychological states in the patriarchal society, arouse the detorted female image ,and finally control the feminism of Byatt.This paper contains four part. The first part is the introduction, including the brief introduction of Byatt, possession, the feminism, esearch objectives. through the introduction of this part, we can get a general understanding of this novel, its influence and the feminism ideas of Byatt. In addition, through the research of this thesis, this paper aims to reveal the female psychological states in the patriarchal society, arouse the character image detorted by the traditional male-dominated society, and control the feminism ideas of Byatt. The second part is the discussion about Byatts artistic technology in Possession. Including The Symbols in Possession to Present Feminism Thoughts, and the Unique Narrative Stragegy and Feminism. Through the analysis in this part, we can get a better understanding of Byatts feminism narrative strategies, then learn more about the feminism view in this novel. The third part is the main part of this paper, ie. the analysis of the female characters in this novel, these female characters are all the typical representative of the feminism. Through the analysis of them, we can learn the female psychological states and social living conditions in The Victorian Period, moreover, through the analysis, the strong feminism contained in the authors inner world. The four th part is the conclusion. In this part, the author concludes the related findings and future research development trend about this thesis.Chapter One LITERATURE REVIEWFeminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical discourse, it aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's social roles and lived experience, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, psychoanalysis, economics, literary criticism, and philosophy. Here the author wants to introduce the development of the feminism first.1.1 About the AuthorA. S. Byatt is internationally acclaimed as a novelist, short story writer and critic.she is one of the most imaginative and intelligent contemporary British writers who enjoys a growing international reputation. Her novels are imbued with a rich heritage of realism and conspicuous traits of postmodernism, which have attracted worldwide academic attention. Byatt has focused her concern on a female creative identity, around this theme a range of female artists are built in her novels. Conspicuously, adoption or adaptation of traditional myths and fairy tales for characterization highly features in her fiction. Byatt Educated at York and Newnham College, Cambridge, she taught Art and Design at the Central School, and was Senior lecturer in English at University College, London, before becoming a full-time writer in 1983. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999. Her novels are imbued with a rich heritage of realism and conspicuous traits of postmodernism, which have attracted worldwide academic attention. Byatt has focused her concern on a female creative identity, around this theme a range of female artists are built in her novels. Conspicuously, adoption or adaptation of traditional myths and fairy tales for characterization highly features in her fiction.1.2 About the WorkPossession, winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction which is the highest British literary prize in Britain, locates A.S. Byatt in a sublime position in contemporary worlds literature. In this book, the talent-endowed writer manages to integrate the traditional literature with modern literature so that this great masterpiece can reach a triumphant success on every level the critique of 19th Victorian poetry, an unbearably moving story, and a satire on the modern Biography Industry Cosmopolitan. Of all these important elements, the story also contains the distinctively different feminism thoughts of A.S. Byatt on the male- female relationship in deferent societies.The story tells us how the two academic researchers, Roland Mitchell and Maud Bailey, discovery a secret romance between two Victoria poets, and during their unearthing the fact, their own love story also parallels that of the two poets, who are subjects of their research, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabcl LaMotte. Apart from them, there are also the deconstructionist academic Mortimer Cropper，the British Professor James Blackadder,and Professor Leonora Stern, who study the works of Ash and LaMotte respectively and also harbour different purposes in unfolding the Ash-LaMotte relationship. Through these conflicts, the author covers a reader a intense suspense all over the story. The story does not play on the readers heartstring until it ends well.Possession is a diplonema structure novel, it respectively tells two romantic love story in the 20th century and the middle of the nineteenth century ,shapes two groups of both spirit likeness and different image mirror characters. Through the voice of the characters, especially through the narrative of the love story between Ashy Lamote ,The author tries to tell people that women should be independent and self-esteem. Even though she admitted that, in a way, love can stimulate womens wit, but she insists that women should seperate sex from career , love, marriage and children just the barriers to their success. Near the end, the author expressed her inner voice borrowing the mouth of Moude : “ oh, love is terrible, is a destroyer”. through the characterizations of different women in different two centuries, and through the fictional Lamote myth in the story, the author highlights the improvement of the modern womens social status and individual rights. Focusing on the feminist tone. and analysing the female characters ,the novel can help us better understand Byatts feminist ideas.1.3 About FeminismFeminist, as the theme of the literary creation, is mostly implicated in the women writers works. it aims to attack the man-dominated concept and the practical truth. After the second world war, European and American literary creation were more advocating women writers to show womens survival circumstance and mental consciousness from womens special position and the female peculiar sharpness and subtlety. Although which is not as strong as American feminist literary movement, English literature has also emerged a large number of feminist ideas of outstanding female writer. Contemporary writer A.S Byatt, with her booker prize (1990) the best novel the possession and other several autobiography novels have won a space for them in this field.Generally speaking, the feminism experienced two big stages. Ie. Traditional Feminist Theories and New Feminist Theories. Among which, traditional feminism includes Liberal Feminism, Radical Feminism , and Socialist and Maxist Feminism. Liberal Feminism refers to women have equal opportunity to compete within the existing system; women can act as men given the equal opportunity;the institutions seem as specifically oppressive to women can be changed without any foundamental change in other social institutions; Radical Feminism refers to oppression of women is built into the very structure of our society; division between the sexes,based on the patriarchal family ,is seen as foundamental to social organization; sees equality for women within the present system as impossible and calls for a radical restructuring of society.and womens oppression is so deeply rooted that only a basic restructuring of society can change it. New Feminist Theories include Eco-feminism and Postmodern Feminism.Eco-feminism means women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose foundamental model of relationships continues to be one of the domination.they must unite the demands of the womens movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic sociecolomic relations and the underlying values of this society. Postmodern Feminism means From equality view towards "difference" view, admit the difference between men and women, based on the analysis of the relationship between the sexes, from women's uniqueness starting to see people, between people and nature, individual and social relations. Chapter Two UNFOLDING FEMINISM FROM THE ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED BY A.S. BYATT IN POSSESSIONIn Possession,both new and traditional theories are embodied, in which Byatt uses Radical Feminism and Postmodern Feminism to start from the female's perspective. she figures some female image, which makes the topics more distinctive, from this female image, we can know more about the feminism's view of Byatt, in modern society, women's status and individual rights have been improved. if the women can stand on their own, and have the courage to seek, they will eventually find their happiness.2.1 The Symbols in Possession to Present Feminism ThoughtsThe successful use of symbolic images is one of the strong features of the fictional language in Possession.The images formed by the names of the characters and places symbolize the females confined physical or psychological spaces.the use of symbols in pairs greatly reveals the rich historical and cultural meanings in the novel.the symbolic images link history and reality ,time and space,and are significant in theme presenting and text constructing.In possession,Water and the rock are both symbolic words, in Lamotts text, the female are most the water life,by figuring this, Byatt highly praises the female's power. so, Water in possession has a profound meaning by analysing the description ofByatts Thomason Foss Under The Sunlight,we can know that here Water symbolizes the imprisoned female power,although the water is limited ,guided and promoted,it can still get through the cage of rocky composition.as long as it can search through the cracks,it will seek freedom upwards desperately. This is especially Byatt s Victorian and modern women's best portraiture.The female writers from 19th century or even from the 20th century ,often use the imprisoned space in their works,to express their imprisoned thought .such as :the house ,the hole ,the attic,and the boxthe closed space image with symbolic meaning expresses the feeling that the women suffer confinement and the wish to escape from mens restriction.In possession, Byatt takes advantage of colors to parallel narratives of the Ash-Christabel story and the Roland-Maud storyJiang Xianwen in the preface to Possession(2000)，reminds the readers of ByattS application of Italian Pre-Raphaelite painting，to awaken the readerssensitive feelingAnd he further divides the colors in the novel into two schemes，which are co