| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第5-12页 |
| Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| Chapter One Humanity in Bondage to Social Establishment | 第17-32页 |
| 1．1 Contradictory Visual Symbols | 第19-21页 |
| 1．2 Individuals' Restrained Social Activities | 第21-23页 |
| 1．3 Fixed Marital Pattern | 第23-27页 |
| 1．4 Social Moral Control | 第27-29页 |
| 1．5 Discouragement of Women's Fine Tastes and Gifts | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter Two Fights against Forces Detrimental to Humanity | 第32-44页 |
| 2．1 Feminine Natural Qualities | 第32-33页 |
| 2．2 Hester's Revolts against Puritans' Brutalities | 第33-37页 |
| 2．3 Sarah's Resistances against Estranged Labors | 第37-44页 |
| Chapter Three Explorations of Humanity | 第44-60页 |
| 3．1 Understanding of Sex | 第44-49页 |
| 3．2 Experience of Love | 第49-53页 |
| 3．3 Failure of Anticipated Marriage | 第53-57页 |
| 3．3．1 The Inevitability of the Failure | 第53-54页 |
| 3．3．2 The Necessity of the Failure | 第54-57页 |
| 3．4 Finding Social Position | 第57-60页 |
| Chapter Four Divergent Evolutionary Directions | 第60-83页 |
| 4．1 Hawthorne's Conservatism to Women's Emancipation | 第61-72页 |
| 4．1．1 Re-establishing the Absoluteness of Social Conventions | 第61-67页 |
| 4．1．2 Marital Stereotype Preserved | 第67-69页 |
| 4．1．3 Hawthorne's Puritan Ideology | 第69-72页 |
| 4．2 Fowles's Radicalism in Women's Emancipation | 第72-83页 |
| 4．2．1 Excessive Stress on the Individuals' Interests | 第72-74页 |
| 4．2．2 Downgrading Bisexual Emotional Ties | 第74-80页 |
| 4．2．2．1 Contradicting the Existence of Freedom with Love | 第74-78页 |
| 4．2．2．2 Devaluing Life by Artistic Standards | 第78-80页 |
| 4．2．3 Fowles's Insistence on Freedom | 第80-83页 |
| Conclusion | 第83-89页 |
| Bibliography | 第89-94页 |
