《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的母爱力量_英语论文.doc

范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------1 / 9《汤姆叔叔的小屋》中的母爱力量_英语论文摘 要作为对美国国会通过《逃亡奴隶法》的有力回应,斯托夫人写于 1851 年的小说 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，历来被认为是废奴文学的经典之作虽然它是一部反蓄奴制小说，但是它与一般只讲述黑奴的苦难与挣扎的故事有很大的不同斯托夫人在书中不仅批判了蓄奴制，而且也淋漓尽致地刻画了母性的温柔、爱心、同情心和忠诚作者通过强调女性的道德力量，通过对母爱的理想化描述，试图唤醒美国女性的同情之心，号召美国女性反对奴隶制拯救社会因此本论文将阐述斯托夫人在小说中如何赋予女性反对奴隶制、拯救世人、改变社会的力量，旨在揭示斯托理想的家庭和理想母性的观念关键词： 《汤姆叔叔的小屋》 ； 斯托夫人； 母爱； 拯救 8146Contents  摘 要 iAbstractiiI. Introduction1II. The Influence of the Feminism on Stowe12.1 Feminism under the Social Background22.2 Stowe’s Experience of Motherhood3III. The Power of Maternal Love43.1 Men’s Failure to Redeem the World43.2 Women’s Moral Superiority over Men5IV. Redemption through Women84.1 Courage and Resolution of Women in the Novel8---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------3 / 94.2 The Maternal Paradise10V. Conclusion11Bibliography13Acknowledgements14AbstractWritten in 1851 in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is considered as the most influential anti-slavery novel in that period. Although Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel, it is very different from ordinary slave stories that focus on the life and struggle of black slaves. Mrs. Stowe not noly criticizes slavery but also portrays mothers as tender, loving, sympathetic and devoted in her book. By emphasizing the courage and moral power of women, by idealizing motherly love, the author is seeking the sympathy of American women to take actions against the slave system. Thus, this essay explores the ways that Stowe dramatizes women’s roles and power in the fight against the chattle slave system to redeem the fallen world in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, aiming at revealing Stowe’s idealized images of the family and mothers. Firstly, it talks about the social background of domestic feminism and the influence of this setting on Stowe. Secondly, it analyzes the power of maternal love, includingmen’s failure to redeem the world and women’s moral superiority over men. At last, it deals with the women’s courage, resolution and Christian love reflected by redemption the society. The female power and redemption of the fallen world embodied in the novelis for the purpose of appealing to the maternal values of white Americans in the nineteenth century and awaking their strong Christian sympathy and motherly love to fight against the chattel slavery.II. The Influence of the Feminism on Stowe---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------5 / 92.1 Feminism under the Social BackgroundAs we know, if we know a lot of the social background in the novel, it will be helpful for us to understand its significance. The novel that dramatizes women’s roles in the fight against chattel slavery in America owes debt to the two crucial events. One is the organization of a feminist movement in 1848 and the other is the passage of a new Fugitive Slave Law, forbidding the Northerners to help the runaway slaves, and requiring them to cooperate in the capture of fugitive slaves in 1850.Beginning at the 1930s’ the first American feminist movement, reached its peak at the meeting at Seneca Falls, where feminists had spelled out their demands for full participation in American life. And there was public debate over the place of women in the life of the young republic. One party was represented by Angelina E. Grimke, who assumed the leadership of American women. This claim was challenged by the northern educator Cathaine Beecher, Stowe’s sister. In her Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, Grimke had urged these southern women to perform exceptional acts—to break state laws and emancipate their slaves. She suggested that women, like men, can appropriately engage in sharp argument, and they most certainly should join the abolitionists’ petition campaigns, “The right of petition is the only political right that women have… Surely, we ought to be permitted at least to remonstrate against every political measure that may tend to injure or oppress our sex”(Stowe 9). However, in An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females, Addressed to A. E. Grimke, Beecher presented the basic tenets of an ideology that she developed to counter Grimke. An ideology historian Kathryn Sklar has dubbed “domestic feminism”. In her Treatise on Domestic Economy, Beecher had developed the notion of the moral superiority of females and the argument that by dominating domestic life, women could redeem American culture. ---------------------------------------------------------------范文最新推荐------------------------------------------------------7 / 9Motherhood, as idea, myth, instituti。