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The Evil Of Woman

Posted on:2017-11-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330488978118Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Evil has always been an inevitable part of human development,and evil is to promote the development of an integral part of the history,but in the evil of the stage of history,the female figure is embellishment and decoration.In fact,women always connect with evil.The people who committing evil or the sufferer has a female's figure.On the question of the problem of evil,women have the reason and the right to examine the evil,and try to construct the philosophy of evil.The research about evil and female are endless,but the association between evil and female is not so much.Otherwise,what a role the female will act in the evil is not researched by people.This paper tries to make up some of the problems on women and evil in the disciplines of literature,and open up some new horizons,to fill some vacancies in this discipline.Papers begin from the description of the traditional view of evil.Today,most of the points about evil comes from male,but also from the male's perspective,and the perspective of this paper is to analyze and recognize female's evil.The first part of the body leads to the introduction of what is the “women and evil” ?The next few sections,the author will observe the evil with female's position,and to research the evil by conventional "evil woman" image in literature.To study each of a case of female's evil in such broad categories is impossible,so the author selected three categories,it's natural,moral and cultural.what's more,to select an important example to apply to the female's moral framework.In the last part of the paper,the author use the viewpoint of Care Ethics to propose appropriate solutions which in order to avoid some evil,even though some evil elements we never can to escape completely.The three major examples in this article are Clytemnestra,Medea and Macbeth.The author focused on the image of "evil woman" in this three classical plays,and to analysis the image of "evil woman" how to change with the time.The specific forms of the female's evil changed from the nature's evil to the moral's evil then to the culture's evil.At the same time,the author will find out the corresponding archetypal characters of ancient myth prototype and to figure out the the depth causes of female's evil.The reason for looking to the mythical archetypal characters aims to prove the evil was rooted in the ancient culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Female, Evil, Care Ethics, Myth Prototype
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