《灿烂千阳》中女性角色的性格分析及其影响因素

《灿烂千阳》中女性角色的性格分析及其影响因素

摘要：《灿烂千阳》是21世纪美籍阿富汗裔的著名畅销书作家卡勒德·胡塞尼的代表小说之一，主要以两位阿富汗妇女为叙事角度，讲述了动乱年代阿富汗与其人民的苦难经历。本文以女性角色的性格分析为切入点，采用了对比分析的方法，以女主人公玛丽雅姆和莱拉为例，从他们各自不同悲惨遭遇两个角度进行对比分析，举例说明不同的悲剧经历对她们造成的影响以及塑造不同女性角色的因素。

关键词：《灿烂千阳》；卡勒德·胡塞尼；女性角色；影响因素

An Analysis of the Female Characters and the Influencing in A Thousand Splendid Suns

Abstract: A Thousand Splendid Suns is one of the representative novels of Khaled Hosseini, a famous Afghan American best-selling author in the 21th century. From the two Afghan women narrative angle, it mainly depicts the sufferings of Afghanistan and its people in the ages of unrest. This paper, taking the female characters as the access point, applies the method of comparison and contrast to illustrate the impact of different tragic experiences on the female characters and the causes which shape different female characters.

Key words: A Thousand Splendid Sun；Khaled Hosseini; female character; influencing factors

An Analysis of the Female Characters and the Influencing in A Thousand Splendid Suns

Introduction

A Brief Introduction to Khaled Hosseini and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini, born in 1965, is an Afghan American novelist and physician. Determined to flick the dust over the face of ordinary Afghans, he will show the throb of soul behind to the world. Hosseini has written three novels, The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) and the Mountain Echoed (2013). The global sales of all his works have reached more than 40,000,000 copies. All his works are set in Afghanistan and feature an Afghan as the protagonist. Following the success of The Kite Runner, he decided to stop practicing medicine and became a full-time

writer.

A Thousand Splendid Suns, created in the angle of Afghan women, is a superior sequel compared with The Kite Runner, telling the story of making necessary sacrifices and overcoming fear with the power of love in order to retain hope and happiness. The two heroines, Mariam and Laila, with their miserable memories in different ages share the pressure of war, poverty and domestic violence. The misery and patience hidden underground interweave together, letting them once become incompatible but then generate friendship just like mother and daughter. The novel describes a relatively large time span from 1960 to 2003. In the female characterization, Mariam leaves us deep impression. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman?s love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival. A stunning accomplishment, A Thousand Splendid Suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

Current Research Situation of A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini is one of the 21th century?s most famous American Afghan best-selling authors. His novels show us the sufferings of women and children living in patriarchal society and open a literary window to re-recognize Afghanistan to the world. Because of the great influence of his work The Kite Runner, Hosseini won the United Nations Humanitarian Award, and was invited to serve as the goodwill ambassador for UNHCR. The research focus of scholars at home and abroad mainly concentrate on Hosseini?s life and the literature review of his works but researches taking A Thousand Splendid Suns as the theme to study female characterization are relatively fewer.

1.1.1. Studies Abroad

The scholars abroad have paid much attention to studying the writing techniques applied in Hosseini?s works. In the research of Linda Null and Suellen Alfred, it is said that Hosseini uses the friendship of two Afghan women to portray the amazing resilience of the human spirit where hope unfolds like a tiny, frail plant in the most