Abstract:Frances Hodgson Burnett, as a superior children’s author, wrote her masterpiece The Secret Garden in 1911. The awareness of the ecofeminism is clearly reflected in The Secret Garden. Burnett considers that women and nature are more likely to live in harmony since both of them are under the rule of patriarchy world. She also believes that women are responsible to end the alienation between human and nature. At the same time, she believes human and nature can finally live in the equal and harmonious world.
This thesis intends to interpret The Secret Garden in the light of ecofeminism in order to make the study of ecofeminism to be more popular in China. The paper is divided into three parts. The first one is introduction. In this part, the definition and goals of ecofeminism and the brief introduction of author and the novel can be seen. The second part is the analysis that how the concepts of ecofeminism appears in The Secret Garden. And the last part is conclusion, which concludes the main idea in this paper.
In general, this paper aims to analysize three main ideas of ecofeminism in The Secret Garden.
Key Words: harmony; ecofeminism; nature; female; equality
摘要:弗朗西斯·霍奇森·伯内特是一位知名的儿童文学作家，她于1911年创作了她的著作《秘密花园》。从这部小说的内容上来看，《秘密花园》中生态女性主义的观点清晰明了。伯内特认为在父权世界里自然与女性更能够和谐的生活。她也相信女性有终结男性与自然之间的疏离关系的责任。同时，作者相信人类和自然最终将和谐平等的生活在一起。
这篇文章从自然与女性结合的思想看《秘密花园》，对《秘密花园》中生态女性主义思想进行研究和分析。这篇论文包含3个部分。第一个部分是介绍。主要介绍生态女性主义理论的定义，发展以及目标，同时，也提及了作者和这部小说。第二部分是对生态女性主义的观点在《秘密花园》分析。第三部分是一个全文的总结。
总之，这篇论文主要想分析生态女性主义的三个主要观点在《秘密花园》中应用。
关键词：生态女性主义，平等，和谐，女性，自然
Through the ecofeminism analysis above, a rational conclusion can be made that Frances Hodges Burnett is a great worker with strong ecofeminism awareness and The Secret Garden is not only a great book for children but also a strong support of ecofeminism. In this book, the author focuses on the status of women in a patriarchal society. She portrays ideal women with her pen. Under her pen, women should be brave, healthy and compassionate. Burnett transcends the ecofeminism and proposes a spiritual attitude to overcome the gender and ecological crisis. That is love and braveness.
In this novel, Burnett reveals her ideas of ecofeminism that she aims to save women and nature from the oppression of men. She sends Mary to the patriarchal society and Mary alters this place successfully.
She also emphasizes that the alienation between human and nature should be ended after the effort of women. Women can achieve that goal since they are full of love. The love to all species and the whole natural world is the sword for women to pierce the wall between man and nature.
