Toughness And Fragility Of Life, Death, Love, Hate

Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006) was a famous Italian female journalist and writer. She has interviewed many world political giants; in the meantime, she is also a female writer with independent thoughts and outstanding expression skills. She spent all her life pursuing the truth with remarkable courage and devoted her lifetime to the literary creations, leaving us precious interviewing&writing experience and excellent literary works. She is also known as "the world’s first female journalist".The main content of this thesis includes the following chapters:study her literary works chronologically, and analyze the formation and the development process of her feminist thoughts, finding how her thoughts echo with the history of the feminist movement in America and Europe; analyze her journalism works, study the way she put her feminist thoughts into her interviews and the distinct features of her interviews. Compare the different expression methods between her literary and journalism works. Then select two literary works of Fallaci in which the male characters are the most representative----Letters to a baby never born and Man----to study "female in gender relation" through comparing the male characters in these two books. The thesis is mainly focusing on how Fallaci’s feminist thoughts-which became popular by spreading her works and publicly supporting her favorite political candidates-affected Italian female rights movement. The last part of the thesis focuses on the experiences of Fallaci’s coming to China as a journalist and on the acceptance of her literary and journalism works in China.