The Power Of Females’ Growth

Canadian female writer Lucy Montgomery is a world-renowned novelist.Montgomery’s Red-headed Anne Series is based on her childhood experience on Prince Edward Island,and has won the appreciation of readers around the world.Around the growth of the heroine Anne,Montgomery has shaped many female characters with flesh and blood.This paper takes the angle of feminism to interpret the growth of female characters in the works,involving works like “Anne of the Green Gables” and “Rilla of the Ingleside”.This paper uses the feminist theory to analyze the growth of female roles in a progressive way,mainly from three aspects: nature,society and females themselves.This paper mainly includes five parts.The introduction part gives a brief introduction to Montgomery and her novels,summarizes the research status of Montgomery’s works at home and abroad,introduces the concept of feminism and summarizes the main contents of the paper.The first chapter mainly analyzes the interaction between the female role and nature in the novel from the perspective of eco-feminism,pointing out that women,compared with men,have a closer relationship with nature and they are both oppressed by men and man-dominated society.Based on the theory of eco-feminism,this part demonstrates the significance of eco-feminism research by analyzing the character of Anne.There is an innate intimacy between women and nature.Women and nature shelter and comfort each other.Anne’s rich imagination and love of nature are the inspiration for her literary creation.When she is hurt,she will subconsciously seek for the protection of nature.On the other hand,nature,like women,is oppressed by men.The peaceful beauty of rural life is being eroded by the rapid development of modern civilization,and women have always been under the oppression of men.The second chapter mainly analyzes of social prejudice against women and women’s resistance.There is a lot of prejudice against women in society.For example,there are strict standards for women’s appearance.Anne’s appearance did her a lot of damage.The first time Mrs.Lynde met Anne,she was critical of her for being skinny and freckled.In addition,women are expected to be "angels in the home".Women can only be wives and mothers.This chapter will also examine how Anne’s teacher,Mrs.Stacy,as a woman,was able to do what men do in society without being understood or respected.In addition,Anne’s spiritual mentor,Mrs.Barry,is also an "anomaly" among women in social cognition,but she is respected and appreciated by people from all walks of life through her ability.Diana is Anne’s best friend,but because of Anna’s "different" behavior,they are blocked by Diana’s mother,but they are not afraid of the mother’s secular eyes,after Anne saved Diana’s sister with their own experience,their friendship has been got Diana’s mother’s bless.The third chapter will mainly analyze the growth of Anne and Rilla from the construction of self-identity.Anne is a self-abased orphan whose voice is erased.Each time she was adopted,she passively accepted the arrangements of the asylum.She has no sense of belonging,and no recognition of her own identity.But with her unremitting efforts,she grew up to be a scholarship student of queen’s college.Rilla,who was not familiar with the world and was obsessed with being a "trophy",did not realize her relationship with the war in the early stage of the war,and did not know that women were erased in this society.However,after the war,she grew into an independent,and courageous woman who has her own worth.The process of establishing their identity is also the process of growing up.Montgomery’s work is full of reflections on the fate of women.By analyzing the relationship between women and nature,the oppression and resistance in society,and the construction of women’s self-identity,this paper shows that women can control their own life and at the same time it encourages the growth of women.