A Feminist Approach to the Hours

Abstract

The author Michael Cunningham was born in Ohio in 1952, graduated from Stanford University, and now lives in New York. It was once praised by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most outstanding writers of our time." He won the Pulitzer Prize and Faulkner Prize for the publication of his work The Hours. The adapted movie of the same name also won an Oscar. Therefore, many scholars try to explain and interpret The Hours from different angles. The most common of these are the analysis of works and films from the aspects of gender theory, inter-subjectivity theory, bisexual homosexuality theory and the inheritance and development of Mrs. Dalloway. This thesis takes Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours as the research object, and the struggle of the three female images in the novel is mainly through the female subjective consciousness and female survival in the feminist perspective. The Hours of Three Women's struggle, loss, liberation and sublimation. A positive meaning of The Hours is that we can use this to rediscover the period from the beginning of female liberation to the present, and the call to experience feminism has returned from radical to calm and sincere thinking. In The Hours, the protagonist showed the initial fierce resistance and self-liberationism, while maintaining a strong individual independence, while showing strong anxiety and confusion in self-identity, this change is after In the era of feminism, after the individual seeks independence, it is difficult to seek the refraction of the emotion of identification. loneliness.