对伊丽莎白一世与武则天不同评价之文化比较.docVIP

对伊丽莎白一世与武则天不同评价之文化比较 作者：admin???来源：hq??? 时间：2010-6-21 ?????? 点击： 标签：对伊丽莎白一世与武则天不同评价之文化比较? ? 分页： [1] ? ? A Cultural Comparison of Different Comments on ElizabethⅠand Wu Zetian ? I. Introduction In the long human’s history, there rarely appears famous women or even the female rulers. Most of the countries on the earth are ruled by men for they are poweful and ambitious. So it is very difficult for those women who want to rule a country instead of men. There were two women who were both intelligent and fabulous. Their names are Elizabeth Ⅰand Wu Zetian. China and England were both Feudal countries, however, their women’s social status and education were so different. The two women both made significant contributions to their countries such as economy, politician, arts, etc. Though they were two intelligent female rulers under whose reigns their countries appears flourishing people have different attitudes towards them. This article is written to analyze the deep reasons which formed these phenomenons in England and China from different perspectives. ? II. Comments on ElizabethⅠand Wu Zetian Elizabeth Ⅰand Wu Zetian are both great females who made contributions to each countries. But their people have different comments on them. 2.1 A Brief Introduction to Elizabeth Ⅰ The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a synonym for the era which she dominated (1558-1603), was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Called “Gloriana” by Edmund Spenser in “The Faerie Queene”, Elizabeth’s deft political skills and strong personal character were directly responsible for putting England (at the time of her accession in 1558 a weak, divided backwater far outside the mainstream of European power and cultural development) on the road to becoming a true world economic and political power and restoring the country’s lost sense of national pride. Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of theTudor dynasty and her reign is known as the “Elizabeth Era” famous above all f