The novel's peculiar significance lies in its placing emphasis on the particular predicament of career intellectual women in modern society,including a depiction of those women's contradictory roles and their result,from which an exploration of this predicament's nature may be drawn.All the above proves that apart from the old form of oppression,career intellectual womenhave to suffer some new form by patriarchy which is difficult to overthrow.
Apart from depicting modern career intellectual women still being“insulted and injured”by patriarchy,Anita Brookner analyses the roots of the predicament and puts forward a solution,that is,to stick to their own dignity as independent human beings by refusing not only marriage of convenience,but the patriarchal values,thus fulfilling their self-seeking and selfdefinition.Beauvoir’s method after slight modifications is found to be the ultimate solution:the young girl and the young boy should be raised with the same ideology of male-female equality and friendship;then things like“male superiority”will disappear and“femininity”will really become part of human nature.
Romanticism and conservatism are two important features of the Southerners and southern culture of America, which results in William Faulkner's monumental historical consciousness. This paper analyzes that historical consciousness from the angle of the three groups of characters in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and summarizes its significance.
Willy Loman is a world famous literary character created by Arthur Miller to represent the failed American Dream.This paper analyzes the reasons for his failure,pointing out that it is his character flaws that lead to his tragic ending.
Shakespeare's"Macbeth"has a dual tragic effect. This paper aims to analyze the play part by part to show how Shakespeare gets this special effect through the arrangement of plot and creation of characters.
