《达罗卫夫人》中的女性角色分析
弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙是英国女作家，意识流小说的代表人物之一，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义的先锋。一生创作的九部小说大多与女性主义相关。著名意识流小说《达罗卫夫人》是她内心世界的真实写照。该作品也被认为是促进新女权运动的第一步。作品之所以经久不衰是因为作者对女性角色的描写。文章将从三方面分析小说中的女性角色从而阐释女性意识无法在现实表达的原因：女性矛盾的心理，男性思想对女性的同化，维多利亚社会的影响。
关键词  弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙，女性角色，女性意识

1 Introduction    1
2 Contradictory Mentality    2
2.1 Clarissa & Dalloway: Dream or Reality    2   
2.2 Clarissa & Septimus: Death or Life     4
3 Assimilation of Masculinity    5
3.1 Clarissa & Sally: Ambiguous Relationship    5
3.2 Dalloway & Richard: Aloof Relationship    6
  4 Survival of Victorian Females     7
  4.1 Clarissa: Change to Dalloway     7
4.2 Sally: Change to Housewife    8
  Conclusion    10
  Acknowledgements    11
  References    12

Adeline Virginia Woolf, born in Kensington, London, an English writer, was regarded as a forerunner of modernism and feminism for the twentieth century. She did not get any formal education. Instead, she was educated by her parents, Leslie Stephen and Julia Stephen. Due to the immense library of Stephen’s house, Virginia and her sister, Vanessa, were taught the classics and English literature. After her mother died, she was able to take courses of study in Ancient Greek, Latin, German and history at the Ladies' Department of King's College London from 1897 to 1901, despite the fact that she had mental disability. In 1904, her father died, leaving her and her sister at the mercy of her half-brothers, which was suggested to be a consequence of Woolf’s mental illness. Because of her mental illness, she committed suicide by drowning at the age of 59. In her whole life, she accomplished 9 novels.
Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, is one of Virginia Woolf’s best-known novels, which is considered as a famous novel for stream-of-consciousness and feminism. Created from two short stories, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” and the unfinished “The Prime Minister,” the novel elaborates on Clarissa’s preparations for a party she will host that evening.
    With its publication, Mrs. Dalloway has received lots of reviews from scholars and critics at home and abroad. There is a variety of research works on Mrs. Dalloway, concerning techniques, themes, characters and so on. Hermione Lee summarizes that Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours are ideal books in which to explore the concepts of heteroglossia and polyphony which, in turn, contribute to a broad outlook for exploring identity formation and for finding meaning in literature. Edmondson argues that Woolf’s narrative technique in Mrs. Dalloway evinces a privileging of intersubjectivity—consciousness of other consciousness. Mary Mathis explores the theme of war in her dissertation through an analysis of the environment where Woolf lived, a society whose foundations were built on and shaken by violence. Hu Xinmei analyzes the incurable trauma of human beings, especially of women which was caused by the Great War from female’s perspective. Sayaka Okumura chooses women knitting and giving a party to analyze femininity in Mrs. Dalloway. By means of analyzing the female figures in Mrs. Dalloway, Zhao Dongmei details the women’s particular plight in the traditional Victorian society. In her view, women’s soothing power can save mankind and realize bisexual harmony. While analyzing characters, Liu Yuhong focuses on Clarissa’s inner world so as to demonstrate her real self, one that is independent. Wan Yongfang interprets Mrs. Dalloway from a unique perspective to shed some light on the juxtaposed characters, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith, in order to indicate the double plots and cohesion of life and death. Wang Huang analyses Clarissa’s relationship with other main figures so as to reveal women’s paradoxical mentality in Victorian society, a world dominated by men. At the same time, he points out the discrepancy between males and females lies in masculine thought’s assimilation on women, from which, he draws a conclusion how women can overcome the paradox and pressure to fight for their awareness of female.
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