Simone de Beauvoir(1908-1986)is an outstanding existentialist philosopher of France,who as a pioneer of the French feminist movement,also was one of the most influential women since the 20th century in France.In 1949,the publication of The Second Sex in France immediately aroused widespread concern as her representative work.In this book,she searched from a number of disciplines such as philosophy,history,literature,biology and other content,in order to explore the history of the situation/status of women,and the change of women rights.In her view,the women are always attached to the man,so as called ’the other’ status,then she put forward the famous ’woman is not born,but the day after the formation ’.In the The Second Sex,.she using a comprehensive analysis of the method.meticulous and comprehensive from all aspects of female life,the various stages of analysis,analysis of the status of oppressed slavery for women to understand themselves,try to provide a theoretical basis s to explore the way of women’s liberation.At the same time,she also used a series of philosophical terms,standing on the perspective of existentialism to analyze women’s problems,such as ’the other’,the existence of the essence of nature,the main dialectics,free consciousness and other concepts.In the same way,she used existentialism to analyze the existence of the pursuit of attention,from the sure people in the community,to survive the right to analyze the role of women in social development and status.Her novel works also embodies her existential feminist theory.As a pioneer and founder of feminist literary criticism.the feminist ideology and theory embodied in the The Second Sex of her works,which promoted the development of the women’s movement around the world.Therefore,she has a great influence on the development of Western feminism,her far-reaching influence of feminist literary theory is deservrs our attention.This paper will deeply interpret the "second nature".which embodies the feminist ideas and analysis of the point of view,and combined with the Beauvoir’s novel image of women to explore her feminist liberation path.This paper mainly includes the following four chapters:The first chapter analyzes the origins of the feminist thought of Beauvoir,and combs the origin of her feminist theory,from the Sartre existentialism,Hegel’s master-slave dialetic,Marx’s view on women’s issues.The second chapter analyzes the main contents of Beauvoir’s feminist thought,taking the concept of ’the other’ as the core,from the influence of private ownership and capitalist system,patriarchal culture.The third chapter analyzes the image of Beauvoir’s novels,to analyzes the image of Beauvoir’s feminist ideology and the way of women’s emancipation.In this chapter,she focused on Famale Guests,The Elegance Of Talents,The Beauty Of The Image and her other works,show the different image of women,including pursuit of the main sense of the knowledge of women,as the male vassal ’the other’,actively ’free choice’ of independent,rebellious female image and its independent,rebellious analyze personality traits and so on.The fourth chapter from Beauvoir feminist ideology in China were cut into the entry and spread,analysis the new era under the chinese women who face the new problems and challenges,and also analyze the construction of cultural identity structure,to achieve female identity and explore the way of addressing women. |