摘 要：查尔斯·狄更斯是英国文学历史中除莎士比亚之外最重要的作家，他对爱情与婚姻持有自己鲜明的观点。一方面，他的观点受当时社会大环境的影响；另一方面，他自己的生活经历也是他的婚恋观形成的重要原因。本论文试图从狄更斯的婚恋观角度出发，运用女性主义理论，从时代社会背景，作家亲身经历和文学传统各个方面系统地分析作者笔下的婚恋观。试图对狄更斯作品中的爱情与婚姻进行深度研究，分析狄更斯婚恋观的形成的原因及作品中男女主人公的爱情与婚姻，分析其婚恋观形成的时代背景与社会背景，肯定狄更斯婚恋观对西方传统的突破，解析狄更斯婚恋观中所隐含的父权制意识。

关键词：爱情与婚姻；女性主义；父权制意识

Abstract  ：Charles Dickens is one of the most important writers in the history of English literature except Shakespeare, and he has a clear view about love and marriage. On the one hand, his views are influenced by the social environment at that time. On the other hand, his own experience and life is also an important reason for the formation of his views on love and marriage. This paper tries to start from the perspective of Dickens’ views on love and marriage, using the theory of Feminism, and analyzes systematically the concept of the views on love and marriage of the author from various aspects including the social background of the age, the writer’s own experience and literary tradition. This paper attempts to make a deep analysis to the views on love and marriage of Dickens’ works. It analyzes the reasons for the formation of Dickens’ view on marriage and the love and marriage of the male and female characters in his works, analyzes the time background and social background of the formation of the concept of love and marriage, affirms Dickens’ views on marriage and love for the breakthrough of Western tradition and analyzes the patriarchal consciousness implied in Dickens’ views on marriage and love.

Key words: love and marriage; feminism; patriarchal consciousness

Contents

摘 要......i

Abstract...ii

I. Introduction..1

II. Dickens’ Views on Love and Marriage and Their Formation

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2.1 Dickens’ views on Love and Marriage2

2.2 The Formation of Dickens’ Views4

III. The Manifestation of Dickens’ Views on Love and Marriage in works5

3.1 “Two of A Kind” - the Basis of Dickens’ views on Love and Marriage6

3.2 Differences on Males and Females6

3.3 The Duty of Male and Female in Household7

IV. Feminist Criticism of Dickens’ Views on Love and Marriage

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4.1 Historical Position of Dickens’ views on Love and Marriage9

4.2 The Invisible Patriarchy in Dickens’ views on Love and Marriage10

V. Conclusion11

Bibliography13

Acknowledgments14

An Analysis of Dickens’ Views on Marriage From David Copperfield

I. Introduction

Charles Dickens is one of the most important writers in the history of English literature except Shakespeare and is also one of the famous writers around the world. Dickens creates lots of works in his whole life, including fifteen novels, dozens of novellas, hundreds of short stories and a large number of proses, travel notes and so on. Among them, the greatest achievement is the novel, especially those thought-provoking novels. His works in the past 200 years withstand the test of time and are popular with readers all over the world. His works are full of shine, humor and psychological analysis. He has created a large number of vivid images of character, which reflect every aspect of British social life during the period of Victoria through altitudinal artistic generalization and vivid description of the details.

Dickens is born in a small staff member of Portsmouth, a port city in the United Kingdom, and in childhood, Dickens has a very good period of time. Although his family is not very rich, his father doesn’t have a high official position, isn’t good at financial management and change jobs for many times, yet his father is very optimistic by nature and good at telling stories, which cultivates the interest of literature of Dickens during the period of childhood. Dickens’ mother comes from a middle-class family and isn’t good at managing household, and her character is also somewhat indifferent. So this makes Dickens very long for the warmth of family and family happiness, and this theme has become one of the important themes in his later works. When he is 12 years old, the family suddenly changes, and Dickens is forced into a workshop as an apprentice. This humiliation life leaves a deep scar in his heart, which still can not let go in adults. Dickens has worked in a law firm and a newspaper office form front to rear, which makes him accumulate a lot of materials for his writing (Claire Tomalin 12).