《钢铁意志》女主人公的坚韧性格及其二元成因

《钢铁意志》作为美国女作家埃伦·格拉斯哥的中晚期作品,是她对其人类生存思想与女性主义创作思想的一次成熟表达。这部小说的女主人公埃达·芬卡斯特尔既独立自主又坚忍不拔,既是格拉斯哥所倡导的理想女性形象,也是其性格制胜生存法则的典型体现。格拉斯哥将埃达的坚毅性格归因于个体的内在遗传因素和社会外在环境因素的双重塑造作用。换言之,埃达的钢铁意志体现着家族血脉传承与新时代女性观念嬗变在其性格铸造方面的一种合力效应。

On Analysis of the Creation of the Heroine in Vein of lron

Vein of Iron, one of the middle and later works of the American writer Ellen Glasgow, is regarded as a great success in ex- pressing her ideas of human survival and feminism. The successful portrait of the heroine Ada Fincastle, an independent and tenacious woman, suggests that main purpose of writing this novel is to show the ideal image of women that Ellen Glasgow advocates, and the law that characteristic determines destiny. According to the novel, Ada＇s personality is influenced by double factors of individual heredity and social environment. In another word, Ada＇ s characteristic embodies the resultant effect of both the family bloodline and the con- ceptual change on the casting of women＇ s character.