文学来源于生活,又高于生活,更能对社会环境及文化生活进行深入的挖掘,提炼出耐人寻味的更深层次的思想意境。许多西方文学作品都能够反映出女性在男权主义形态下的生存状态。在男权文化形态下,女性是很难独立自主的,她们的身心都受到了压抑与禁锢,甚至还会被男人们在茶余饭后谈论与嘲笑,直至到生命的尽头。即使在维多利亚女王统治时期,英国妇女的社会地位也并没有得到 Literature comes from life, but also above the life, more able to excavate the social environment and cultural life in depth, refining an intriguing deeper ideological mood. Many Western literary works can reflect the existence of women in the form of patriarchal. Under the patriarchal culture, women find it hard to be independent and their body and mind are repressed and imprisoned. They even talk and laugh at men after gossip until they reach the end of their lives. Even during the reign of Queen Victoria, the social status of British women was not available