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Females as Intellectuals: A Study of A.S. Byatt’s Quartet

Author: YuanMaoHong
Tutor: ZhangChong
School: Fudan University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Byatt Knowledge of women Femininity Self-space
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


AS Byatt is one of the most famous contemporary British women novelists, she works Possession: a romance \title. Byatt own set of criticisms about the history and stories mentioned her creations main female artists. In view of this, the growth of her tetralogy novel research material for this article. Tetralogy including garden Virgin \These four works about confusion in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, knowledge of women in the self-positioning. The growth of tetralogy two heroine is Stephanie and 弗雷达莉卡 two sisters graduated from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cambridge in the 1950s, the male to female ratio of up to 6:1, so the two sisters can be said knowledge of women representatives. Knowledge of women in the novels such node parties compete in a tug-of-war, conventional forces binding them, and want to prove to the world that the new demand time urged them to get out family 囿 domain. Teachers father of the novel, the two heroines grew up the son educate them so that they get great intellectual liberation, and difficult financial groups of female companions. Their adult sisters made a different choice. Sister Stephanie select family, non-Christians, she became a pastor's wife, hidden in the daily household chores. Sister 弗雷达莉卡 the beginning also select a family occupies her space to think, but can not tolerate full family life, and chose to flee. Knowledge of women the courage to choose to give up the role of his wife, but the heroine of the novel are reluctant to give up the rights of the mother. No source of income, even if the start 弗雷达莉卡 still seize hold his son, maybe this is the them in order to prove their female identity an effort. Even if the knowledge of women able to show their talents in the areas of work Jing, female teacher, television presenter, publishers proofreading this work, it seems, is not always so satisfying, it seems that some \Despite the outside of the women's traditional requirements of this knowledge, the knowledge of women fell into the plight of the self-positioning. The one hand, they always look forward to maintaining a pure space of their own inner, here, they can think independently. On the other hand, the desire for sex, maternal call is always broke into their hearts imaginary utopia. Knowledge women are trying to defend their own utopia, they choose to divorce, try writing. Just trying to prove himself, but also to further deepen their inner contradictions with the standard of the male world. Tetralogy novel writing time span of up to twenty-four years, and during that time, Byatt calmly through the tetralogy other hand, a massive feminist liberation movement. Overall, according to the mid-20th century, the feminist movement to achieve the ultimate goal that the feminist movement is a failure because it did not achieve the \But perhaps the ultimate statement of equality is a mistake, because of the different social position different physiological Some are difficult to change, there is no need to change. Byatt's tetralogy in such a thinking their cultural background, interpretation of the knowledge the women do something, and the Do Nothing \Meanwhile, tetralogy its regret at. Actively seek knowledge Feminine Orientation, Byatt to pay more attention to the interpretation of the relationship between men and women, to the neglect of the exchanges between the women. Overall, despite the background of the novel tetralogy Britain in the mid-20th century, the novels demonstrate knowledge of women in their own positioning troubled, but across time and space. The one hand, the knowledge women have put into practice their intellectual aspirations; On the other hand, they are also worried that the realization of the aspirations of so that they are no longer as \Novels portray this dilemma of today's knowledge women will no doubt have some sort of inspiration.

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