ResearchMethodology研究方法、目的

ResearchMethodology研究方法、目的

Research Methodology

This thesis will explore the feminism in Mrs. Dalloway in

through analysis and induction and deduction process.

Analysis is a classic research method by breaking a complex

topic or substance into smaller parts to gain a better

understanding of the topic. This technique has been applied in

many fields, especially in the study of mathematics and logic, and

it has been widely adopted in literary text interpretation. Woolf

believes that human history should be interpreted from female

perspective in order to create a new civilization, and her feminism

is obviously embodied in her novels such as Mrs. Dalloway. In this

novel犷Woolf shows several ideas about feminism and these

ideas are analyzed respectively.

Induction is a way of reasoning using known facts to produce

general laws. Deduction is a way of determining from the general

principle in relation to a particular event, thing or fact. In the

paper author studied the novel and inducted from the creation

of the characters and setting the general ideas of feminism

developed in the novel. In the early 1920s, Virginia Woolf

developed her ideology about social political, economic and

cultural system in the patriarchal society, and her thoughts can

be applied in the analysis of her feminism. Form her novels. By

the two reasoning process, the paper attempts to explore the

hidden theme and overall ideology in the novel.

Research Goal

China's study on feminism was borrowed from the west, and

the same kind of patriarchy ruled in some places in China,

especially in the rural area, and women were suffering from the same kind of pain and agony as one sees in' the novel. Virginia

Woolf's perception on feminism helps one to achieve a better

understanding on the issue. In this paper, Virginia Woolf's

opinion in Mrs. Dalloway is explored, along

with her effort to promote women in the fight against the

masculine suppression in pursuit of equal social status.

To take this step, women then explore the contexts and

reasons for why we experience what we experience. They

examine history, the economy, the political economy and

material realities, and ask who benefits, and how it is that

unhelpful but dominant ideas are held in place (such as `women

must be youthful and beautiful', or `father knows best', or `boys

will be boys'). We ask how it is that we find ourselves colluding

with these ideas that hurt us; what are we up against when we

try and resist or act differently; what are our successes and

triumphs and the conditions for these, and so on. Importantly,

they may also investigate men, men's actions, and ideology,

practices and institutions which favor men, or they might

research men and women together.

All of these questions comprise the critical process of

examining the `structural' matters which surround and shape

them, so that they can begin to form theories about alternative

ways of acting.

This thesis aims to seek the thread of lines that offers clues

to the issue of feminism, the question that concerns author's

interest are: how women can acquire

self-confidence to come back to oneself and become an

individual with the identity and strong will, and how women in

the novel search to break away from the confines

of the society, a complete being not like a flower in green house. Virginia argued that women should expand their horizon

and enrich life experience to embody a new value. Women can

have a hopeful future if they make effort and find time to explore

life in a new way. Society offers the best resources where women

can draw on develop their capabilities.

Chapter Two Literature Review

Virginia Woolf's feminism has long been studied by scholars

around the world.

In this section, the researches of feminism in Mrs. Dalloway

both abroad and at home are introduced.