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28 June 2020
An Analysis of the Female Characters in E.M.Forster’s Novels
Dongyan Jiang
© 2020 by the Authors. Licensee Whioce Publishing, Singapore. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

This paper analyses the female characters in E.M.Forster’s novels from the perspective of feminism, through the deep exploration of E.M.Forster’s works, it is evident to draw a conclusion that there are four kinds of female characters: first of all, stubborn and arrogant old ladies; the second type is insensitive but self-awakening middle-aged ladies; the third type is knowledgeable and smart young ladies; the last one is the warm-hearted and benevolent lady. These four kinds of different female characters can reveal that E. M. Forster has a contradictory attitude towards women. For one thing, he respected and sympathized with women, for another he discriminated against women.

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