解读《简.爱》的帝国主义意识 [6]
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关键词:imperialismcolonialismculturefeminism帝国主义殖民主义文化女权主义
sex and the body about themselves.
But this argument was pulled down by feminists completely. “Vampire” Bertha Mason was not only looked down upon, but also sympathized. The most famous feminism work was The Mad Woman in the Attic, its authors were two American female savants, and they were Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Goober. In this book, they thought the mad woman was just a side of the concealment, anger and insanity in Jane’s heart. Both of them were sisters who oppressed by the male. It was Rochester forced Bertha Mason walked up to the madness. But J.Spivak said that the cultural hegemonism was produced in the period of imperialism. A sufficient rewrite of literature could not get the flourish from the refraction and the fracture of the imperialism, because it was pretended to be a jurisprudence of the “principle” and the only “truth” by the foreign things.
Bertha Mason was not a mad woman actually, but she had to be in the novel for the affection of the imperialistic consciousness of the time. She was the variety in the high-system empire, so she should be cleared off. In the novel, she was described to be inhuman, sluttish and crazy, even a wild beast and the empire did not need a woman like her, so in the condition of the imperialistic consciousness, Bertha Mason became a mad woman was not accidental.
B. Religion Hero
After hovered in the air of Caribbean, empire eagle flied to Asia and looked into the distant India with the White Myth. At this time, as the religion hero, Saint John sallied. He was a raptor who filled with crazy religious devotional and venturesome spirit and cherished a glorious dream of imperialism. He said “ My vocation, my great work, my foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven, my hopes of being numbered in band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell. It is dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for. ” ; “As his disciple I adopt his pure, his merciful, and his benignant doctrines. I advocate them: I am sworn to spread them. Won in youth to religion, she has cultivated my original qualities thus—From the minute germ, natural affection, she has developed the overshadowing tree, philanthropy. From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice. Of the ambition to win power and renown for my wretched self, she has formed the ambition to spread my Master’s kingdom; to achieve victories for the standard of the cross. So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated till this mortal shall put on immortality. ” The vow looked like Christian “religiosity” and “goodness”: helped the behindhand nation to improve their nation and so-called wild culture.( Charlotte Bronte, 78-90) But in fact, it caused by the Religion exclusionism. It was well-known that Christianity was a strongly exclusive religion and the Christians often looked down upon the other religions. In the course of expanding to the outside, they thought themselves had the obligation to rule and rescue the other culture, and took themselves attached to the language system of the empire so that they could clear away the colonia
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