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1、《呼啸山庄》和《简爱》中仆人的作用和特点Abstract(English)………………………………………………………….iAbstract(Chinese)…………………………………………………………iiChapter1Introduction………………………………………………….....1Chapter2TheRolesofServants…………………………………………8Chapter3TheCharacteristicsofServants.…………………….……27Chapter4EmilyandCharlotte’sPresen
2、tationofServants..……………46Chapter5Conclusion………………………………………………….……51Bibliography…………………………………………………………...........53iAbstractIn1847,withthepublicationofWutheringHeights,AgnesGreyandJaneEyre,threeBrontesisterscausedgreatcuriosityofthereadersandcritics,especiallyEmilyBronte,th
3、eauthoressofWutheringHeights,andCharlotteBronte,theauthoressofJaneEyre.Jane’sstruggleforindependenceandherromanticlovewithRochesterandthepassionateandcontroversiallovebetweenCatherineandHeathcliffhavebeenreviewedformorethan100years.Manycriticshavemadetremendouscontribution
4、stocriticismofthesourcesofthenovels,theirnarrativestylesandcreatingmotivationsaswellastheanalysisoftheprotagonists.Thisthesis,however,focusesontherolesandcharacteristicsofservantsinthesetwonovels.Eventhoughservantsareminorcharacters,itdoesn’tfollowthattheyplaynorolesandhav
5、enocharacteristicandthereforecanbeneglected.Althoughtwonovelstellquitedifferentstories,readerscaneasilyfindsomeinterestingandcontroversialimagesoftheservantswhoareinseparablefromthedevelopmentoftheprotagonistsandthewholestories.Whentheyareconfrontedwiththechangeablefateoft
6、heprotagonists,especiallywhenthereisthelackingoftheimageofthemother,theyparticipateintheactions,evenintendingtoinfluencetheprotagonists’judgmentandshowingtheirinbornconscience;somebecometotallycallousandhelptoexacerbatethetragedyoftheprotagonists.Butemployed,dependentandfu
7、ndamentallyconfinedinalowsocialpositioninpatriarchalsocietyinwhichmenaresupreme,theycannotunderstandtheexteriorandinteriorstruggleofprotagonists,norcantheyhaveindependentthinking,despitethefactthatsomeofthemaresomewhatliterateandstronglyreligious.Byexposingtheconscienceand
8、callousnessdemonstratedbytheservantsintwonovels,thethesisintendstodigoutthesocialandpsych