声明
Acknowledgements
ABSTRACT
摘要
CONTENTS
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Margaret Laurence and Her Manawaka World
1.2 A Brief Introduction to A Bird in the House
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Studies on A Bird in the House Home and Abroad
2.2 Aim and Significance of the Thesis
Chapter Three Vanessa Trapped in the Imaginary Order
3.1 The Imaginary Order
3.2 Vanessa’s Identification with Different Family Members and Relatives
3.2.1 Mother—Unconscious Subordination to Oppression of Patriarchal Society
3.2.2 Father—Loss of Spiritual Reliance to Vanessa
3.2.3 Uncle Dan—Failure in Constructing Self
3.2.4 Cousin Chris—Failure to Enter the Society
3.3 Vranessa’s Confusion
Chapter Four Challenge to Other in the Symbolic Order
4.1 The Symbolic Order
4.2 Family’s Influence on Vanessa’s Subjectivity Development
4.2.1 Grandfather—Representative of Patriarchal Society
4.2.2 Grandmother Macleod—the Representative of the Past
4.3 Vanessa’s Rebellion
Chapter Five Constructing of Self in the Real Order
5.1 The Real Order
5.2 Formation of Subjectivity
5.2.1 Recognition in Constructing Self
5.2.2 Awaking and Rebellion in Constructing Self
5.2.3 Independence and Survival in Constructing Self
5.3 Vanessa’s Progress
Chapter Six Conclusion
References