Abstract Margaret Atwood is regarded as “the Queen of Canadian Literature”, she is a prestigious contemporary writer with international reputation. Her perse literary works usually reflect her distinctive meditation on human being’s survival condition and life value. And as a female writer, she has a strong consciousness of feminism. She tries her best to express her feminist consciousness to show her unique feminist perspective and keen observation. Alias Grace takes a historical event as the background, with exquisite language and excellent narrative technique, describing a female murder suspect’s experiences of adversity and survival, to show the survival pattern of women in the patriarchal society. This thesis will analyze the victimization of three female images in this novel and then explore heroine’s female policies learned from these three women and her finally survival through using these policies.

This thesis consists of three parts. Chapter One will introduce the theme of survival. Chapter Two will discuss the victimization of three female images in the aspects of gender, class and cultural disadvantages. Chapter three will analyze the heroine’s experience of resisting victimization through her female policies.42274

This thesis aims to prove that if one woman wants to survive in this patriarchal society, she must take a series of female policies to help herself fight against victimization.

Key words: survival     victimization     female policies     distance from society     camouflage

摘要玛格丽特·阿特伍德是加拿大享有国际声誉的当代女作家，被誉为“加拿大文学女王”。她的文学作品往往反映了她对人类的生存价值、生命价值的独特思考。而且作为一个女性作家，她同时又具有强烈的女性意识，着力表现女性生存的主题，以此来凸显它独特的女性视野和敏锐的洞察力。小说《别名格雷斯》取材于真实的历史事件，以细腻的语言以及高超的叙事技巧描写了一个女性杀人嫌疑犯的磨难与求生经历，指涉了女性在男性统治时代的生存状态。本文将从小说中三个女性形象的受害者地位进行分析，探讨女主人公从这三个女性身上所感悟出的女性策略，并最终使用这些策略获得生存的经历。   

本文正文分为三章。第一章主要介绍生存主题。第二章主要是从两性冲突、阶级对立、文化劣势三个方面来探讨女主人公的受害者地位。第三章主要分析女主人公通过女性策略摆脱受害者地位的经历。

本文旨在证明女性要想在男权社会立足，必须采取一定的女性策略来反抗女性的受害者地位。

毕业论文关键词：生存     受害     女性策略     逃离社会     伪装

Contents

Abstract..ⅰ

摘要... ⅱ

Contents..ⅲ

Introduction.1

Chapter One The Theme of Survival... .5                  

Chapter Two The Victimization of Females .7

    2.1 Victimization in Wars of Gender. .7

        2.1.1 Victimization of Grace’s Mother..7

        2.1.2 Victimization of Mary Whitney... 8

        2.1.3 Victimization of Nancy Montgomery.9

    2.2 Victimization in Class Conflict. .10

2.3 Victimization in Cultural Disadvantages..12

Chapter Three The Policies of Female Survival..14

3.1 Psychological Distance from Society... 14

    3.1.1 Grace’s Identity as an Immigrant..14

    3.1.2 Grace’s Identity as a Servant...15

    3.1.3 Grace’s Identity as a Prisoner... .17