摘 要

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫是一位一生致力于改变女性不平等社会地位现状，一直致力于女性文学作品创作的伟大作家，她在争取男女平权、反对父权主义、争取女性财产权和教育权方面提出了很多影响后世的理论，极大的启发了后世女权运动的兴起。伍尔夫强调现代小说要着力描写人的内心世界，而不要机械地描写现实的生活。全面深刻解读伍尔夫的女性主义思想，不仅要分析其小说主题和人物所表现的女性意识，更要阐释小说中的意象所蕴含的女性主义色彩。对于本文的主题——《到灯塔去》所折射的女性主义思想，主要从两个方面解析，第一部分从女性视角出发分析主要人物的性格特征，第二部分是探究小说的女性意象。本文分为五个章节，第一章是引言，介绍《到灯塔去》的背景和文献综述；第二章是介绍伍尔夫的女性主义的成因及其女性视角；第三部分是分析《到灯塔去》中的三个意象，即“灯塔”、“窗”、“海洋”；第四章强调本文研究的意义和局限；第五章是结论部分，总结本文的中心思想。本文旨在帮助读者更深刻地理解伍尔夫的女性主义创作思想，从更广阔、更清晰的角度理解伍尔夫的双性同体理论，并且将其应用于当今社会，有利于人们了解和学习伍尔夫的女性主义思想，而且对构建和谐稳定的两性关系及和谐社会，具有十分重要的现实和理论意义。

关键词：弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫；《到灯塔去》；女性主义；双性同体；意象

Abstract

Virginia Woolf is a great writer who devotes her whole life to change the status quo of women 's unequal social status, and has always been committed to the creation of women 's literature works. She has put forward many influential theories in striving for equal rights between men and women, opposing patriarchy, striving for women 's property rights and education rights, which greatly inspired the rise of women 's rights movement in the future. Woolf stressed that modern novels should focus on describing people's inner world rather than describing real life mechanically. To interpret Woolf 's feminist thoughts comprehensively and profoundly, we should not only analyze the theme and the female consciousness of the characters, but also explain the feminist of the images in the novels. As for the feminist thought reflected in the theme of this article, To the Lighthouse, this paper mainly analyzes from two aspects: the first part analyzes the character characteristics of the main characters from the perspective of women, and the second part explores the female images in the novel. This paper is divided into four chapters, the first chapter is the introduction, which introduces the background and literature review of go To the Lighthouse; the second chapter is about the causes of Woolf 's feminism and its female perspective; the third part is to analyze the three images in To the Lighthouse, namely "lighthouse", "window" and "sea"; the fourth chapter emphasizes the significance and limitations of this study; the fifth chapter is the conclusion part, summarizing the central idea of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to help readers understand Woolf 's feminist creative ideas more deeply, understand Woolf 's androgyny theory from a broader and clearer perspective, and apply it to today's society, which has very important practical and theoretical significance for people to understand and learn Woolf 's Feminism, and building a harmonious and stable gender relationship between man and woman,as well as a harmonious society.

Key words:Virginia Woolf；To the Lighthouse；feminism；androgyny；images

Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Woolf and To the Lighthouse 1

1.2 Background of To the Lighthouse 2

1.3 Literature Review 3

2Woolf and feminism 3

2.1 The background of Woolf's Feminism 4

2.2 The feminism perspective in To the Lighthouse 6

2.2.1Opposition between the two sexes: Mr.Ramsey and his wife 6

2.2.2Androgyny:Lily 7

3 Female images in To the Lighthouse 8

3.1 Image of "Lighthouse" 8

3.2 Image of "Window" 9

3.3 Image of "Sea" 10

4 The significance and limitations of feminism in "To the Lighthouse" 11

4.1The significance of feminism in To the Lighthouse. 11

4.2Limitations of feminism in To the Lighthouse. 12

5 Conclusion 13

References 14

Acknowledgements 15

An Analysis of Feminism in To the Lighthouse

1 Introduction

• 1. Woolf and To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is an autobiographical novel of Woolf. The scene of the story was set in the seaside town where Woolf lived in her childhood. The author used three chapters to record two days in the Ramsey family's daily life, which were ten years apart. Ten years had taken away some people and brought some changes to the living. The first chapter is about the ordinary day in the daily life of the Ramsey family: the youngest son wanted to go to the lighthouse, but his father stopped the plan because of the bad weather. In the seemingly disordered description, the reader understands the character characteristics of the Ramsey family, such as the depression and sternness of Mr. Ramsey, the kindness and gentleness of Mrs. Ramsey, which also foreshadows the author's attempt to expose the differences between the two sexes. In the second chapter, there were only a few lines, summarizing the great changes of the Ramsey family in the following ten years. The third chapter returned to the main line of the story, describing that one day ten years later, the Ramsey family finally arrived at the lighthouse. It is worth noting that the once stern father seems to be gentle, and the atmosphere between the two sexes is relaxed and harmonious. To the Lighthouse is the most typical literary expression of Woolf 's feminist thoughts. In this work, Woolf reveals the living conditions of women in Victorian times, revealing Woolf 's strong desire for the rise of women 's status. In the 1920 s, Woolf is suppressed by the traditional patriarchy in the literature of social political, economic and cultural system has carried on the bold and critical reflection, strongly advocates people use female Angle of view to re-examine the history of mankind, creating a new civilization, eventually makes human get rid of the contradiction between men and women, to both sexes. This view is fully reflected in To the Lighthouse. Woolf 's comprehensive, rich and profound feminist thought finally exerted a great influence on western feminists since the 1960s. To the Lighthouse is a sign of Woolf 's feminist maturity and an autobiographical literary work. The images of Woolf 's parents and herself are presented artistically through the works of Mr.Ramsey, his wife and lily. Through shaping the characters, the author depicts the profound expose and reflects on the traditional patriarchy society, which decided by male center socialist consciousness in men 's and women 's level of binary opposites of the status quo, and with the social situation of the deformity boldly she puts forward the solution of the individual and the unique insights and the different ideas to feminism writing and thinking .

1.2 Background of To the Lighthouse

Woolf 's mother died when she was 13 years old. Her description of her mother's image remained in her mind all the time. Her words and deeds, every move, her hobbies, her living habits, all lingered in Woolf 's mind, leaving her a deep memory. At the age of twenty-two, Woolf 's father died, and her father's image remained in her mind forever. It is this kind of deep image that makes her very entangled and has been bothering her. So, in order to express the image of her father and mother and her emotion clearly, she decided to write a novel. The two main characters in To the Lighthouse are Mrs. Ramsey and Mr. Ramsey's parents. As Woolf wrote the novel, she gradually recovered her health. In the process of her creation, she expressed her feelings to her heart's content, spread out all the memories stored in her mind for many years, and created it at the fastest highest speed. This kind of creation is not happy and incomparable with the previous creation. In To the Lighthouse, many different characters are created. In addition to Mrs. Ramsey and Mr. Ramsey, there are Lily, James, Kem, Roger and so on. These different characters have appeared in Woolf 's life, and they have all kinds of connections and intersections with her.

1.3Literature Review

Virginia Woolf is one of the greatest writers in English literature and a pioneer of feminism in the 20th century. As early as the 1930s and 1940s, domestic scholars introduced Woolf 's works to Chinese readers and foreign studies on Woolf 's works were even earlier. With the development of the feminist liberation movement and the rise of women 's consciousness of freedom and equality, Woolf 's works have been reread and analyzed again and again. Her works not only reflect the understanding and reflection of women 's realistic situation, but also put forward the solution of women 's self-liberation and self-realization by revealing the source of female role repression under the patriarchal system.