OnFemaleImagesinLittleWomen

毕业论文〔设计)is the first step of analysis the theme.Then,through the analysis of characters of thefemales in Little Women and what they have experienced and thought,we can find theway that how they build up their fine females'images.Women in modern societyshould take their characters in Little Women as examples to build up their images.1.1 Traditional definition of femaleReligion has governed the thoughts of West and Bible affects western countriesdeeply.The stories in Bible bring about the gender stereotype that provides societyand males a basis to set up females'images and limit their status."From now on you'll have to scratch a living from the soil.You'll need to makeclothes and grow food.Nothing will come easily--not even childbirth.And one day,you will die"(Net.1)---God said to Adam and Eve for their sins.The constructed social relationship between women and men in the West isrooted in the Genesis story of Adam and Eve.For the last 2,500 years it hasunderpinned our perception of sex and gender and thereby influenced how womenand men are represented in art.Any discussion of images of women and men musttherefore be prefaced by an examination of the opening chapters of Genesis.God created man in his own likeness that was given dominion over"every livingthing",equally significant is the prominence given to men;God is male and his mostimportant creation is male.The story stresses the primacy of man and the centrality ofhis place in the universe,while making it clear that women play a subordinate role.Throughout the Christian period,the story of Eve has provided men with the reason2