NewThemesinPersuasionfromtheCinderellaArchetype

毕业论文（设计）AbstractCinderella,a famous fairy tale,is also a love mode and archetype in literature.Jane Austen often used it to express women's desire for a happy life.In Persuasion,Austen had changed and developed Cinderella archetype a bit.It is not onlyconcerned with women's pursuit of an ideal marriage,but also concerned with thechange of the society.The paper tries to reveal the theme of the novel and the 19tcentury society by analyzing the Cinderella archetype in Persuasion.Basicallyspeaking,the framework of Cinderella archetype can be concluded as the fourelements:the death of the mother,miserable life experience,the twists and turns inlove relationship,and the happy ending.Persuasion represents the maturity of herworks.There are new factors and new characteristics in it,which reflects the changeof Austen's world ideology.In Persuasion,Austen had been award of the society'schange.As a result,her writing style and content also changed with the developingsociety.She criticized the corrupted and declining aristocratic class and praised thenewly emerging naval class.Key Words:Cinderella archetypePersuasionthemes