【正文】 old South, a highly paternalistic society in which men were expected to act like gentlemen and women like ladies. Just like Caddy, since she was a child, who was taught that she was expected to act as a lady. They could not do something obey the code. In the end of the 19th century, women began working outside their homes in large numbers, notably in textile mills and garment shops. In poorly ventilated, crowded rooms women (and children) worked for as long as 12 hours a day. Great Britain passed a tenhourday law for women and children in 1847, but in the United States it was not until the 1910s that the states began to pass legislation limiting working hours and improving working conditions of women and children. But it had not changed the condition yet. And the myth of the natural inferiority of women greatly influenced the status of women in law. Under the mon law of England, an unmarried woman could own property, made a contract, or sue and be sued. But a married woman, defined as being one with her husband, gave up her name, and virtually all her property came under her husband’s control. During the early history of the United States, a man virtually owned his wife and children as he did his material possessions. If a poor man chose to send his children to the poorhouse, the 攀枝花學院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 11 mother was legally defenseless to object. Some munities, however, modified the mon law to allow women to act as lawyers in the courts, to sue for property, and to own property in their own names if their husbands agreed. Besides, in the early of the 20th century, women had no right in politics. Women were outsiders to the formal structures of political life voting, serving on juries, and holding elective office – and they were subject to wideranging discrimination that marked them as secondary citizens. In 1900, women’s legal standing was fundamentally governed by their marital status. They had very few rights. A married woman had no separate legal identity from that of her husband. She had no right to control her biological reproduction, and no right to sue or be sued since she had no separate standing in court. She had no right to own property in her own name or to pursue a career of her choice. Women could not vote, serve on juries, or hold public office. According to the Supreme Court, they were not ―persons‖ under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law. American women have had the right to vote since 1920, but their political roles have been minimal. There were only several women played roles in politics. For example, Jeate Rankin of Montana, elected in 1917, was the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives. Wives of former governors became the first women governors Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas and Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. B. Women’ s Unfail Treatment Women were long considered naturally weaker than men, squeamish, and unable to perform work requiring muscular or intellectual development. In most reindustrialize societies, for example, domestic chores were relegated to women, leaving ―heavier‖ labor such as hunting and plowing to men. This ignored the fact that caring for children and doing such tasks as milking cows and washing clothes also required heavy, sustained labor. But physiological tests now suggest that women have a greater tolerance for pain, and statistics reveal that women live longer and are more resistant to many diseases. Maternity, the natural biological role of women, has 攀枝花學院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 12 traditionally been regarded as their major social role as well. The resulting stereotype that ―a woman’s place is in the home‖ has largely determined the ways in which women have expressed themselves. Traditionally, a middleclass girl in Western culture tended to learn from her mother’s example that cooking, cleaning and caring for children were the behavior expected of her when she grew up. And formal education for girls historically has been secondary to that for boys. In colonial America, girls learned to read and write at dame schools. They could attend the master’s schools for boys when there was room, usually during the summer when most of the boys were working. Besides, some of these labor laws were seen as restricting the rights of workingwomen. For instance, laws prohibiting women from working more than an eighthour day or from working at night effectively prevented women from holding many jobs, particularly supervisory positions that might require overtime work. Laws in some states prohibite。 and the cause of the tragedy of Caddy mainly came from two aspects. 攀枝花學院本科畢業(yè)論文 Body 6 A. The Pressure from the Family This story was about the Compson family, which was a prominent one in Jefferson, Mississippi of the South America. Caddy was the only daughter of this family. The first section narrated by Caddy’s youngest brother Benjy, an idiot, who depended too much on her。另外，她的母親以及 大弟杰生對她 冷酷無情。 本科畢業(yè)論文 從《喧嘩與騷動》中凱蒂的悲劇看 20世紀初女性的社會地位 學生姓名： 學生學號： 20xx10206002 院（系）： 外國語學院 年級專業(yè)： 20xx 級英語本科 2 班 指導教師： 二〇〇七年五月 Social Status of Women in the Early 20th Century Reflected from Caddy’s Tragedy in The Sound and the Fury She Ping Under the Supervision of Fan Xiying School of Foreign Languages and Cultures Pan Zhihua University May 20xx 攀枝花學院本科畢業(yè)論文 Contents Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………… ....Ⅰ Key Words