Feminist Image in Grimm's Fairy Tales from the Perspective of Feminist Criticism

Yuxia Lei

《International Journal of Social Science and Education Research》 5卷9期 (2022/09) Pp. 862-869

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202209_5(9).0122

摘要

Feminist criticism was born in Europe and America in the late 1960s and early 1970s and is still developing. It is the result of the upsurge of Western feminist movement and goes deep into the field of culture and literature, so it has a relatively distinct political tendency. Since its birth, it has strong practicality, political tendency and passion to intervene in reality. It is a criticism centered on women, and its research objects include women's image, creation and reading. Feminist criticism aims at reviewing and revising the concepts which were earlier considered universal but which actually originate in particular cultures and serve particular goals. This paper attempts to use feminist criticism theory to make a new interpretation of Grimm's Fairy Tales from three aspects: the shaping of the mother image, the ＂absent＂ father and the ＂present＂ mother, and the happy ending, so as to reveal the expression of gender rights and status and the setting of a happy ending in this work produced under the background of patriarchal culture. In essence, they all express the ideology of patriarchal culture and convey the female image stipulated in the vision of patriarchal culture.

關鍵字

Feminist criticism ； Grimm's fairy tales ； Feminist image

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