从新女性到牺牲品——苔丝狄蒙娜形象试析

苔丝狄蒙娜是莎士比亚剧作《奥瑟罗》中的女主角。她一方面是个初具女性主体意识的新女性,另一方面又是父权制文化的牺牲品。她从新女性到父权制文化牺牲品的悲剧命运,揭示了伊丽莎白时代英国女性作为“第二性”和“他者”的从属、低下地位,说明即使在女王当政时代,父权制中心文化依然根深蒂固。

From A New Woman to A Victim--An Analysis of the Image of Desdemona

Desdemona is the heroine of Shakespeare' s Othello.She turns from a new woman to a victim of the patriarchy-centered culture . Her tragic fate reveals the subordinate and low status of the women as" the second sex" and " the other" in Elizabethan England, and shows that even if the queen was in reign,the patriarchy-centered culture was still deep-rooted.