An Interpretation of Jane Austen’s Cinderella Complex
Abstract
Cinderella, a beautiful fairly tale widely known around the world, has become a basic love fiction mode and literary archetype in the world literature. Its popularity reveals the universal Cinderella Complex hidden behind the human being’s unconsciousness.
My thesis focuses its attention on Jane Austen’s Cinderella Complex. It is composed of three parts. The first part looks into the origin of Cinderella as well as its connotation. From a detailed analysis of Austen’s important works, that is, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. The second part finds the Cinderella Complex is always lingering around the three heroines of the three novels. The last part pursued the reasons why Cinderella Complex always occupied Austen’s mind from two aspects. It can be reached that Austen’s social experience and her personality attributed a lot to her Cinderella Complex.
Key Words: Jane Austen; Cinderella model; culture connotation; love；marriage
摘 要
《灰姑娘》這個古老美麗的童話家喻戶曉，它已成爲中外文學中1種基本愛情模式和創作原型。其在民間的孕育、誕生和千百年來人們對它的傳誦和演繹昭示出人們潛意識中存在的'灰姑娘情結。
本文主要論述簡•奧斯丁創作過程中的灰姑娘情結。論文分爲3部分。第1部分介紹了“灰姑娘”故事的起源及其文化內涵；在論文第2部分，作者通過分析簡•奧斯丁的3部作品中女主人公的形象（《傲慢與偏見》中的伊麗莎白、《理智與情感》中的愛瑪和《曼斯菲德莊園》中的芬妮），闡釋了簡•奧斯丁在創作中揮之不去的灰姑娘情結；最後，論文從社會背景和個人經歷兩方面總結簡•奧斯丁慣用灰姑娘手法的原因。
關鍵詞：簡•奧斯丁、灰姑娘模式、文化內涵、愛情、婚姻