The Female Identity and "Connection" Theme in Foster's Works - Take "Howards End" as the Main Illustration

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10.2991/icemet-16.2016.351How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sound "Connection" View; New Woman; Demeter

Abstract

In the novel "Howards End", the female identity is an important carrier "connect" theme. Existing criticism discuss Foster's stance when women also tend to unity or contradiction between the female characters and the "link" between the themes equivalent to Foster different female identity appreciation or criticism. Combining creative thought process and the overall situation Foster clarify "link" View of the intention and meaning, pointing out its contradictions individual level and social level, the situation between the ideal and reality coexist, and then from the correspondence between the themes and characters analyzes the female characters and the "Connection" and a combination of reasons, manner, purpose and meaning, and then by means of social background and intention of the author's novels reveal Foster "link" between seemingly unified view and sex positions, the real odds the true relationship.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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