分析《红字》中的女权主义
a rather more profound ideological revolution was in demand. Finally, Virginia Woolf advocated the androgynous theory in the last chapter of A Room of One's Own:
In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain the man predominates
over the woman, and in the woman's brain the woman predominates over the man. The normal and
comfortable state of being is that when the two live in harmony together, spiritually co-operating. If
one is man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse
with the man in her. (Virginia Woolf, 1931:148)
In spite of the far-reaching impact of gender role in the patriarchal system and the consequent existence of opposition between the sexes, Virginia Woolf advocated the androgynous theory which would help initiate the struggle to break the shackles of binary opposition. In her point of view, it was essential to get rid of both the overall ideology and the ethical values based on the binary opposition conventions; what is more, in the patriarchal society, women were deprived of basic rights and aggrieved by harsh oppression even men were burdened with a distinct lack of freedom. As a result, to some extent, the liberation for woman was basically the liberation for man. Apart from that, she has already paid special attention to the individual difference within women themselves. In particular, she mentions that on the one hand, women either the noble woman or the middle-class woman or the working woman were within a whole group opposite to men, who had under the common harsh oppression; on the other hand, there was diversity among three classes, first of all, the noble woman is prosperous and has more freedom. Secondly, middle-class woman dependent on her husband is in no want of bread or money. Thirdly, the working woman was hardly educated and often suffering from starvation. In consideration of those conditions, woman must unit together to get rid of the hedge of traditional conventions and fight against the patriarchal society.
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