An Eco-feminist Study Of Female Escape In Alice Munro’s Run Away

Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in literature,is one of the greatest Canadian contemporary writers of fiction. She is praised for her writing style of realism, her keen insight and attentiveness to ordinary life and common people. In Munro’s writings, women characters are always her major concern. With her remarkably terse and lucid language, Munro depicts every aspect of women, especially their love, family and feelings of inner world.Run Away, a collection of 8 short stories, is Alice Munro’s representative work, in which Munro depicts several incidents of "female escape". The thesis tries to analyze the types and causes of "female escape" in the work from an eco-feminist perspective, and explores the purpose and solutions concerning the theme of "female escape". The thesis points out that there are four types of escape revealed in the book by the women under oppression in a patriarchal society:escape from community, escape from family, escape from men and escape from self.Munro portrays not only the escape of women, but also the damage done to natural ecology by the men-centered society, and the close relationship between women and nature. The juxtaposition of nature and women reflects her eco-feminist ideology. In Run Away, the conflicts between women and society, family, men and self are obvious. Through an eco-feminist analysis of "female escape", we can draw such a conclusion that in this book, Monroe not only successfully creates vivid images of female characters, but also brings us such enlightenment:women can get chances to change their fate through some active ways of "escape".