Study on the Depiction of the Image of Free Women in The Captain's Daughter

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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pushkin; The Captain's Daughter; Maria

Abstract

In Pushkin's novel The Captain's Daughter, a major part of this fiction was spent on the depiction of a traditional woman Maria's pursuit of freedom of life and love and her life experience that she finally won freedom after defeating chains. By doing so, the desire for free life and the great willpower of modern women was manifested and also the attachment of women and progressive thinking of Pushkin was revealed. With elaborate analysis of the era-characterized, unique and beautiful character of Maria, Pushkin's appreciation of free women is uncovered in this study. Although without splendid words and plots filled with ups and downs, the novel vividly describes the living conditions of Russian people in 18th century, at that time the freedom of people, especially women, were fettered. That means people has to fight for their freedom, among which resists of women were more common, and this phenomenon has drawn wide-range attention from all walks of life. With only 80,000 words, The Captain's Daughter is a medium-length novel. However, as the last work of Pushkin, it profoundly portrays an important farmer's revolt in 18th century's Russia from all sides. Also in this novel, there is a group of females who are bravely fighting for freedom, with full and mature souls and unshakable faith, they are bold but not reckless as their western counterparts, reserved but not dull as the western females, they have their own ways of struggle. These images laid foundation for the depiction of revolting farmers in later Russian history.

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© 2017, 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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