作者：邓诗云freedomresistanceequalityfeminineconsciousness
摘要：The Age of Innocence, published in 1920, is the mos t representative work of Edith Wharton. This masterpiece, setting in the upper class society of New York in the late 1870s and the early 1880s, mainly narrates the imaginary but truthful love story between the hero Newland Archer and two women May Welland and Ellen Olenska, and it has won for Edith Wharton the Pulitzer Prize. This thesis, based on the settings of The Age of Innocence and on the theory of Feminism, aims to reveal Edith Wharton’s preference to freedom, resistance to the traditional marital concepts, and her pursuit of equality through the images of the characters, Newland Archer, May Welland and Ellen Olenska, so as to arouse people’s sympathy for the modern females and their rethink of female status.
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