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On Pearl S Buck’s Views on Women Reflected in O-lan in the Good Earth

Author: CaoXue
Tutor: SongShiTong
School: Northeast Normal University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Pearl S Buck O-lan Double-Cultural Identity Views on Women
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


The Good Earth is Pearl S Buck’s masterpiece about Chinese rural life. It was published in the U.S. in 1931, and immediately became the literary bestseller for two consecutive years and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, for The Good Earth and other seven works, Pearl S Buck won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The secretary of the Swedish Academy, Per Hallstrom, on the award ceremony said that one of the significances of the novel was to reflect the issue on the status of Chinese women.As a woman writer, women’s living condition and social status must be one of the themes in Pearl S Buck’s novels. This thesis attempts through analyzing the image of the heroine, O-lan in The Good Earth to find Pearl S Buck’s views on women reflected in her works and her female characters, and discuss the root which formed her unique views.The first part is an introduction. It briefly introduces the main plot of the novel, The Good Earth; and reviews the researches and studies on Pearl S Buck and her works at home and abroad; then the author proposes the research objective of this thesis. The first chapter, by analyzing the content of the novel, presents the characteristics of O-lan. In the second chapter, on the basis of analysis in the first chapter, there is the analysis and the summary of Pearl S Buck’s views on women reflected in O-lan. In the third chapter, the thesis analyzes how Buck formed her unique views on women. The conclusion part points out that Pearl S Buck’s views on women is a part of her cultural concept, the product of her double cultural identity, and reflects her cultural concept fusing the two different cultures.

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