分析《红字》中的女权主义
women who are troubled by affairs of the heart, Hester dies and is buried next to Dimmesdale. They two share a single tombstone, which bears a scarlet “A”.
Ⅱ Feminist Theories
A. Feminist Critical Theory and Methodology
By general definition, Feminism is the idea that women should have political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights equal to those of men. It involves various movements, theories and philosophies, all concerned with issues of gender difference; that advocate equality for women and that campaign for women's rights and interests. The first flourishing development of feminist movement took place in the late 19th century which has exerted a strong influence on the ideology, values and code of conduct of human society. The first feminist movement aimed to achieve three targets. First is to struggle for woman’s right to vote; the second target focuses on the question whether woman has the right to be educated. The third target is on woman’s employment. The emergence of the movement broadens people's perspectives to view about the world, and promotes them to rediscover many literary contents ignored in the past. Feminist literary criticism finds its impetus in the movement and has become an influential trend in the literary critical circle. In 1919, the British scholar, teacher and early feminist Virginia Woolf laid the foundation for feminist criticism in her work A Room of One's Own. The most profound insight of Virginia Woolf's feminist theory was that she took the oppression and depression of women as a mirror to look at the cruel and corrupted social system and turned her pen directly to the patriarchy. In the book, she declares that woman and man were born equal, they should be entitled with equal political, economic and legal rights. However, in the course of time, men once have treated women, and continue to treat them, as inferiors. Consequently, it is the primary need for women to be independent, only by the acquisition of that premise can women further pursue the liberation. What is more, she realized that it was far from enough to reform in terms of legislation, but
