臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

夏綠地‧柏金斯‧吉爾曼(Charlotte Perkins Gilman)的「黃壁紙」和 珍‧瑞斯(Jean Rhys)的《夢迴藻海》中的兩位女主角有著相似的遭遇和命運。 「黃壁紙」是以作者本身的經驗為基礎，而《夢迴藻海》是珍‧瑞斯要給《簡愛》中，閣樓裡的瘋女人柏莎‧梅森(Bertha Mason)一個聲音，一個完整的心路歷程。 兩文本皆描述著父權壓迫和兩位女主角的瘋癲現象。 「黃壁紙」中無名的女主角因壓抑或被壓迫她的自我實現和意識而漸漸地精神崩潰；《夢迴藻海》中的安東妮特(Antoinette)一方面因為別人對她母親的印象，一方面出於他人有目的的意圖而被貼上瘋女人的標籤。 最後兩位女主角皆做了自己的選擇─解放自我。
本論文共分五章。 第一章「序文」描述兩文本的背景，提出論文中的主題，也做了簡短的摘要。 另外，我也引用一些兩文本之文獻整理。 第二章「父權壓迫」檢視兩位女主角面臨和遭受的父權壓迫代表或父權壓迫者。 第三章「瘋癲」探討兩位女主角的瘋癲現象，包含她們看似瘋女人，被視為瘋女人，以及被對待為瘋女人的樣子。 第四章「可能的抉擇」中，我對量文本做了總結並討論兩位女主角在如此父權壓迫下可以做的最後抉擇。 第五章「結論」結合了二、三、四章，分析它們之間的關聯性和因果關係並做出我最後的結論。

Both heroines in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea have similar encounters and fates. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is based on Gilman’s own experiences; Jean Rhys writes Wide Sargasso Sea to give Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre a voice and a complete life. The two texts both feature the patriarchal oppression and madness of the two leading female characters. The unnamed heroine in “The Yellow Wallpaper” suffers from gradually growing mental breakdown by repressing and being repressed her own sense of self-awareness and self-realization; Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea has been labeled as a mad woman by others, partly because of the impression of her mother and partly because of purposeful intention. By the end of both texts, the two heroines make their own choices─liberating themselves.
There are five chapters in this thesis. In Chapter One “Introduction,” I depict the background of the two texts, come up with the topics and main ideas I would like to offer in my thesis, and make a brief summary of them. In addition, I introduce some literature reviews of the two texts. In Chapter Two “Patriarchal Oppression,” I examine the representatives of the patriarchal oppression, or the patriarchal oppressors the two heroines face and suffer from in the two texts. In Chapter Three “Madness,” I discuss the two heroines’ madness, including the way that they look like mad women, the way they are looked upon as mad women, and the way they are treated as mad women. In Chapter Four “Possible Choices,” I treat the ending of the texts and discuss the final possible choices they make under such oppression. In Chapter Five “Conclusion,” I combine the previous three chapters, analyze the relation and causality among them and make my conclusion.

Chapter One
Introduction................1
Chapter Two
Patriarchal Oppression......20
Chapter Three
Madness.....................41
Chapter Four
Possible Choices............60
Chapter Five
Conclusion..................80
Works Cited..................90

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