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标题：An Analysis of Vivie in Mrs. Warren’s Profession Using Narrative Theory
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作者：Lin Bai ; Jie Qin
期刊名称：Theory and Practice in Language Studies
印刷版ISSN：1799-2591
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：244-250
DOI：10.17507/tpls.0802.10
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is one of the world famous playwrights, is a household wordsmith for his good humor and satire. In his masterpiece Mrs. Warren's Profession, Shaw depicts a literary figure Vivie who embodies new women's yearning for their independence and aspirations of self-values. This paper analyzes Vivie's image through approaches of narrative theory. By using narrative voice reflected in the scene, involvement of implied author in portrayal description, application of feminism in narratology, and dualistic construction in subtext, readers can have a more profound understanding of Vivie's image. Instead of a mouthpiece of "new women", the nature of Vivie's image is just sketched out on the basis of an ideal man under the male-dominated capitalist society. This paper concludes that in the capitalist society women were under the control of patriarchal discourse.
关键词：Vivie;narrative theory;narrative voice;implied author;subtext;patriarchal discourse