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A Feminist Analysis of Mr. and Mrs. Dove by Katherine Mansfield
LIU Xi, HUANG Xin
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2015.10.005
Changchun University, Changchun, China
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), a New Zealand’s celebrated short story writer, was famous for her exquisite portrayals of women and she made great contribution to the British short story as well. Greatly influenced by Anton Chekhov, her writing firmly fixed on the small details of human behavior. She created her best works in the early 1920s, and her book, The Garden Party, arrived at the peak of great achievement. Set in England, her short story, Mr. and Mrs. Dove, described a story about the man’s last day in England and a series of things that happened to his visit to his beloved woman’s home which presented the relationships between his mom and him, and his beloved woman and him. This paper mainly explores the feminist thoughts of the female characters. The paper concludes that the awakening awareness of women in this story was obviously from the perspectives of striking against the patriarchal system and Mansfield was actually a feminist pioneer who promoted the development of feminism in the whole world.
feminism, authority, rebellion, independence
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