The Nature of Self-Damaging Women in Charles Dickens＇ Novel Bleak House
The Nature of Self-Damaging Women in Charles Dickens＇ Novel Bleak House作者机构：Irbid National University Irbid Jordan
出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2014年第4卷第4期
页 面：231-239页
学科分类：0501[文学-中国语言文学] 05[文学] 050106[文学-中国现当代文学] 08[工学] 0834[工学-风景园林学（可授工学、农学学位）]
主 题：self-damaging destructive relationships victimization isolation deformities
摘 要：This study intends to explore and analysis the portrayal of self-damaging behavior, which encapsulates two female characters： Lady Dedlock and Mademoiselle Hortense in one of the most famous novels of Charles Dickens＇ Bleak House （1984）. An evaluation of these two female characters shows and reflects that their self-damaging behavior emerges from low self esteem, which results from a number of reasons. The self-damaging behavior introduced by these women involves： self-imposed isolation, women madness, purposive accidents, physical self-abuse, and most consequently, conscious pursuit of destructive relationships with men. Although Dickens clearly means no maliciousness to women in his works, the great Victorian marital upheaval of June, 1858, is illustrative of Dickens＇s ambivalent attitude towards women, especially towards strong women
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