英语毕业论文The Paradox of Living in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs.docVIP

The Paradox of Living in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway 内容摘要 作为二十世纪现代英国小说的先驱，弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的作品以一种新颖的结构和独特的风格反映了现代人生存困境的两极，展现了现代人生存不可摆脱的一系列生存悖论。 许多学者一直在关注《达罗卫夫人》的现实主义，理智和精神错乱，以及矛盾的自我。但对《达罗卫夫人》中对矛盾的自我状态的关注仅仅限于达罗卫夫人，故事中的很多的其他方面并没有涉及，比如塞普蒂默斯的矛盾生存状态，以及达罗卫夫人和塞普蒂默斯的联系。换句话说许多评论忽略了塞普蒂默斯对达罗卫夫人生活的重要性。 本文将通过分析达罗卫夫人和塞普蒂默斯两个人的生存状态、表现和产生原因，以及他们两个之间的联系来诠释《达罗卫夫人》中所体现生存悖论。简言之，生存悖论是指生的痛苦，死的恐惧。达罗卫夫人和塞普蒂默斯最终通过不同的方式捍卫了自我的尊严。 关键词：悖论；联系；自我尊严 Abstract As one of the most prominent literary figures of British High Modernism, Virginia Woolf’s novels explore the predicament of modern existence and present a series of existential paradoxes of modern people. Mrs. Dalloway, as Virginia Woolf’s most representative work, has been discussed from the following perspectives, such as realism, sanity and insanity, and the self-contradictory ego, etc. Among them, the studies on the self-contradictory ego mainly focus on the contradictory state of being of Mrs. Dalloway, leaving many other aspects untouched，like septum’s’ contradictory state of being, and the relationship between Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus. In other words, many critics fail to discuss the role that Septimus plays in Mrs. Dalloway’s life. This article, by analyzing the contradictory states of being of Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus and the link between them, is aimed to interpret the paradox of living illustrated in Mrs. Dalloway, which can be defined as the painfulness of living and the fear of death. Finally, Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus struggle to defend their self-worth and self-dignity in different ways. Key words: Paradox; link; self-dignity Introduction Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is a famous modern female British novelist, critic and prose author. Practice of her novels promotes the development of the modern novel, and her theory further consolidated the status of stream of consciousness novel, and her enduring influence in literature. However, in the 40s and 60s, Woolfs assessment in the UK has been low. From the 70s, but the field of