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1、TheRolesandCharacteristicsofServantsinWutheringHeightsandJaneEyre《呼啸山庄》和《简爱》中仆人的作用和特点Abstract(English)………………………………………………………….iAbstract(Chinese)…………………………………………………………iiChapter1Introduction………………………………………………….....1Chapter2TheRolesofServants…………………………………………8Chap
2、ter3TheCharacteristicsofServants.…………………….……27Chapter4EmilyandCharlotte’sPresentationofServants..……………46Chapter5Conclusion………………………………………………….……51Bibliography…………………………………………………………...........53iAbstractIn1847,withthepublicationofWutheringHeights,AgnesGreyandJ
3、aneEyre,threeBrontesisterscausedgreatcuriosityofthereadersandcritics,especiallyEmilyBronte,theauthoressofWutheringHeights,andCharlotteBronte,theauthoressofJaneEyre.Jane’sstruggleforindependenceandherromanticlovewithRochesterandthepassionateandcontroversiallov
4、ebetweenCatherineandHeathcliffhavebeenreviewedformorethan100years.Manycriticshavemadetremendouscontributionstocriticismofthesourcesofthenovels,theirnarrativestylesandcreatingmotivationsaswellastheanalysisoftheprotagonists.Thisthesis,however,focusesontherolesa
5、ndcharacteristicsofservantsinthesetwonovels.Eventhoughservantsareminorcharacters,itdoesn’tfollowthattheyplaynorolesandhavenocharacteristicandthereforecanbeneglected.Althoughtwonovelstellquitedifferentstories,readerscaneasilyfindsomeinterestingandcontroversial
6、imagesoftheservantswhoareinseparablefromthedevelopmentoftheprotagonistsandthewholestories.Whentheyareconfrontedwiththechangeablefateoftheprotagonists,especiallywhenthereisthelackingoftheimageofthemother,theyparticipateintheactions,evenintendingtoinfluencethep
7、rotagonists’judgmentandshowingtheirinbornconscience;somebecometotallycallousandhelptoexacerbatethetragedyoftheprotagonists.Butemployed,dependentandfundamentallyconfinedinalowsocialpositioninpatriarchalsocietyinwhichmenaresupreme,theycannotunderstandtheexterio
8、randinteriorstruggleofprotagonists,norcantheyhaveindependentthinking,despitethefactthatsomeofthemaresomewhatliterateandstronglyreligious.Byexposingtheconscienceandcallousnessdemonstratedb
