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TheFrenchLieutenant’sWomanBy郭耀霞方士英AbouttheauthorJohnFowles(1926—2005)，afamousBritishauthorintheliteraryworld,borninasmalltownnotfarfromLondonin1926.ItisbelievedthatJohnFowlesnotonlyrepresentstheturningpointofEnglishnovelsbutalsothetransitionofwesternliterarycriticism．Hisfatherwasatobaccobusinessmanandhismotherwasateacher.ToescapethebombingofNaziGermanyduringWorldWarII,hisfamilymovedtoDevon,avillageonthesouthofTeMoer.Britain'scountrysidewascharmingandyoungFowleshadastronginterestinthemysteryandbeautyofnaturehere.Thisendlessmysteryandbeautybecamethesourceofhisinspiration.OthermainworksTheCollector《收藏家》TheMagus《巫术师》TheEbonyTower《埃伯尼塔楼》DanielMartin《丹尼尔·马丁》Mantissa《曼蒂莎》AMaggot《想入非非》TheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman——JohnFowlesSetinVictorianage,itconcernsaloveaffairbetweenayounggentlemanandawomanwhoiscalledTheFrenchlieutenant’swoman.Themaincharacter,Charles，livedoninheritanceleftbyhisfather.HeisengagedtoEmestina,,atypicalVictorianwealthylady,buthecancelstheengagementaftermeetingwiththebeautiful，mysteriousSarahWoodruff,asocialoutcastknownlocallyastheso-calledwhoreofaFrenchlieutenant.Thenarratornotoriouslyintrudesinthenarrationcontinuously,presentingdifferentendingsandencouraginghisreaderstoreachtheirownconclusions，whichmakesthisnovela“labyrinthwithoutanexit”CONTENTSABSTRACT(ENGLISH)…………………………………………………….............iABSTRACT(CHINESE)...........................................................................................iiCHAPTERIONEINTRODUCTION1.ABriefIntroductiontoJohnFowlesandTheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman…..................................................................................……...............11.1.AnIntroductiontoJohnFowles…...………...........………………….….……..11.2.AnIntroductiontoTheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman……………………...21.3.PreviousstudiesonTheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman……...……........42.ABriefIntroductiontoExistentialism………………………......………….….….8CHAPTERTWOTHEFREEDOMOFCHARACTERS’CHOICES1TheChoicesoftheSarah........................................................................112TheChoicesoftheCharles....................................................................14CHAPTERTHREETHEFREEDOMVIEWSEMBODIEDINREBELLINGAGAINSTVICTORIANCONVENTIONALITY1TherebellingbehaviorsofSarah...........................................................182TherebellingbehaviorsofCharles........................................................20CHAPTERFOUR.THEIMPACTOFTHEFREEDOMVIEWSONTHENARRITION1TheAuthor’sFreeChoicesoftheNarrativeStructure...............................242TheReaders‟FreeChoicesoftheEnding..................................................25V.CONCLUSION.................................................................................................29LiteraturereviewAccordingtothematerialsavailable，thepresentresearchesofthisnovelmainlycenteronthefollowingaspects：1Studiesonthesocialandhistoricalsignificanceofthenovel.Researcheshavebeencarriedouttoshowtheturmoilandmovementsofthattime，toanalyzethecharacterofeachfigureinthenovelandwhattheysignify.2Narrativedevices．TheFrenchLieutenant'sWomanattractsthelargestamountsofinterestandcriticismmainlybecauseofitswritingskills.3TheanalysisofSarahtheprotagonist：Mainlyanalysisofhercharacters，herbehaviorsandthesocialsignificance.Differentcriticsviewherfromdifferentaspectssuchasfeministpointofview.Theresearchofthenovelabroadandathomeisfullydeveloped.Amongtheseareinterpretationbasedonfeminism,anti-feminism,new-historicism,realism,postmodernism,andexistentialismandsoon.Thefollowingsarethebriefintroduction.Feminism:DeborahByrd,whocallsthisnovel“analmostidealfeministfictionalwork”andSarah“apositivemodel”inheressay“TheEvolutionandEmancipationofSarahWoodruff”in1984becauseofthedevelopmentofafeminineconsciousnessinSarahWoodruff.An-tifeminism:MagaliCornierMichael,whorespondstoByrdin‘WhoisSarah?’ACritiqueofTheFrenchLieutenant’sWoman’sFeminism”declaresthatthisnovelhasbeeninappropriatelyevaluatedforitsfeminismbecausethetext’sperspectiveismaleandassertsthatthenovelfailsasafeminismstatementbecausethefigureofSarahisneverabletobreaktheboundariesofmalefantasy.New-Historicism:RobertHuffakerinhisbookJohnFowles(1980)saysthatthenovelisofhistoricalquality.LindaHutchconclassifiesthenovelas‘historiographic’metafiction’aboutVictorianism,inwhich“itstheoreticalself-awarenessofhistoryandfictionashumanconstructsismadethegroundsforitsrethinkingandreworkingoftheformsandcontentsofthepastRealism:LovedaySimonarguesthatitistruethathisworksarewellsuppliedwiththekindofdocumentaryandhistoricalmaterialtowhichsuchrealisticjudgmentsCanbeapplied；Theycontaininequallysubstantialmeasureexamplesexactlythosekindsofcommentaryandjudgment”，buthealsoarguesthat“mostofthisessentiallydidacticmaterialhasnogenuineconnectionwiththefictionwhichsurroundsratherthanincorporatesit”Postmodernism:BarryN.Olshenfindsthestyleofthenovelisa“curiousamalgamofthenineteenthandtwentiethcenturies”,withamodern,cinematicpanorama’whichisof“long-shotsofthethreemajorparticipantsinthestory’’Somecriticsexplorethenovel’sfromexistentialisttho