【正文】 Aster. It‘s bad enough to be a girl, any way when I like boy‘s games and work and manners. I can‘t get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it‘s worse than ever now, for I‘m dying to go and fight with papa, and I can only stay at home and knit like a poky old woman.‖(Alcott, 1987, p43) 11 Jo also likes literature, both reading and writing them. She poses plays for sisters to perform and writes stories that published. She imitates Shakespeare, and when she doesn‘t need to do chores, she reads a book in a corner of the attic, or outside, pletely absorbs a good book. She also says: ―Not being a genius, like Keats, it won‘t kill me…when I am ready, I will up again…‖Jo is not the oldest daughter in the family, but she put herself in the position of the man of the family when her father is absence. She devotes her literature works to support the family. When her father is hurt during the war, she cuts her lovely, sick, long hair to help her mother to look after her father. She says: ―I just want to do something for father, and selling my hair was the only thing I could think of doing.‖(Alcott, 1987, p105) Because of her character –boyish, Jo has intense equality thoughts, and her struggle to get her properly rights. When she is young, her unique behaviors express her desire to break the fetters on the women. Her choices of career stand for her dreams of being equal as men. She does not obey the traditional view on marriage to find a rich husband, but establishes her love on an equal base. On work, Jo has achieved her dream and bee a writer. In life, she is not the only one to do the housework and her husband will also undertake it. For example, her husband prepares the cakes for dinner and look after their children. Jo also appeals to the equality of, so do she and her husband. Though she returns home, Jo gives a new definition of new women that the bination of career and family is the best home for a new woman. At the same time, she is a girl who has the courage to pursuit her ideals. She believes that a new circumstance has advantages for her writing。s plot structure. Elbert argued that Little Women did not ―belittle women‘s fiction and that Alcott stayed true to her ―Romantic birthright.‖( Sarah， 1987，p11) As we all known, Jo is the representative of Louisa May Alcott in the Little Women, so in ―Closing the Garret Door: A Feminist Reading of Little Women‖, scholars Deborah Thacker and Jean Well mention that the women writer‘s place has been marginalized and consigned as ―the attic‖ (Thacker amp。s own experiences as a child in Concord, Massachusetts with her three sisters, Anna, May, and Elizabeth. The novel tells of their progress into young womanhood with the additional strains of romance. It is a story of their growing maturity and wisdom and the search for the contentedness of family life. In this situation, the paper tends to analyze the pursuit for freedom and demand of true love, embodiment of equality, and desire for independent personality and independent rights to make special analysis of feminism on Jo in English. In doing so, the readers might have a deep understanding of the feminism. 2. Literature Review Little Woman, one of the classics of American literature, was written by American woman——Louisa May Alcott. Woman in the 19th century were still limited to traditional opinions that they were opposed to belong to the family, obey their husbands‘ orders .They could not have the chance to pete equally with men in many fields of society. However, Louisa May Alcott did not look upon herself as the adjunct of the men. She was determined to break the fetters on the women, and tried to choose a profession to make a living on her way through this rough and tumble world. Hence, there is no doubt that Little Women occupies an essential position in the history of American literature in the 19th century. Definition and Features of Feminism As to the meaning of feminism: ―most people think ?feminism‘ is about equality of 8 the sexes, and activism to achieve equality of women‖. (Johnson, 2020, p30) This theory is called: ―Socialist feminism and was used increasingly during the 1970s to describe a mixed theoretical and practical method to achieving women‘s equality. In addition, this theory analyzed the relation between the oppression of women and other oppression in society.‖ (Linda, 2020, p22) In the Cambridge dictionary, the definition of feminism is the belief that women should be allowed the same rights as men and be treated in the same way, but also when it is used to describe a man that means the behavior of man is similar to women. ―According to MS magazine, feminism sounds like a negative word for most women. They don‘t like it or use it‖. (Karol, 2020, p28) However, a very interesting article which is from Men in Feminism said: ―some men seem to be interested in Feminism。 喬 。不甘心做一個(gè)家庭主婦，選擇自己喜歡的工作 寫(xiě)作，厭惡社會(huì)無(wú)理的要求 女性權(quán)力不及男性。 此小說(shuō)與 1868年出版后受到了極大的關(guān)注。 梅 作者簽名： 日期： 年 月 日 學(xué)位論文版權(quán)使用授權(quán)書(shū) 本學(xué)位論文作者完全了解學(xué)校有關(guān)保留、使用學(xué)位論文的規(guī)定，同意學(xué)校保留并向國(guó)家有關(guān)部門(mén)或機(jī)構(gòu)送交論文的復(fù)印件和電子版，允許論文被查閱和借閱。 作者簽名： 日 期： 4 學(xué)位論文原創(chuàng)性聲明 本人鄭重聲明：所呈交的論文是本人在導(dǎo)師的指導(dǎo)下獨(dú)立進(jìn)行研究所取得的研究成果。 1 濱江學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） The Study of Jo in Little Women from the Prospective of Feminism 2 Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………… .…… ……………… 5 2. Literature Review……………… .……………………… ……………………… .… ..5 Definition and Features of Feminism…………………………………… ……… .6 Studies of Jo’s Feminism in Little Women……………………… … .… .6 3. A prehensive analysis of feminism on Jo in Little Women……… ……… ...…… 8 Pursuit of Freedom ………………………………………… … .………… ……… 8 Demand of True Love ………… ……………………………… ..… ...… ……… ..10 Desire for Independence…………………………………………… ..………… ..11 Embodiment of Equality