ABSTRACT：Frances Hodgson Burnett，the author of A Little Princess，created the charming characteristics of the novel’s protagonist Sara according to her own experiences and inner feelings. This novel had a far-reaching implication to children’s novel in 20th . With the author’s beautiful and delicate words, readers could see a beautiful princess who grew up in difficult condition and never gave up. This paper focused on the charming characteristics of protagonist Sara and the implications of the author. When Sara was rich, she was modest, polite and mindful. All that made her become a real princess. When she became a maid, she also never gave up and was full of hope to the future and believed that she was still a princess. The people around her respected to her and lived optimistically like her. Burnett had the same experiences with Sara, through whom she wanted to implicate her thoughts that even grew up in difficult conditions, you should never give up.
Key Words: A Little Princess; Sara Crewe; Characteristics; Implication
摘要：弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特是小说《小公主》的作者，她用自己的经历和内心的感受来塑造了小说的主人公萨拉迷人的性格魅力，对20世纪的童话小说有着深远影响。在她的细腻而又优美的文字下，读者看到了一个在困境中成长，努力不放弃的美丽的小公主。本文着重写主人公萨拉的性格魅力及作者想要传达的思想。萨拉在富有的时候谦虚有礼，不骄不躁，有着公主的气质，在她沦为厨房的使女后也不放弃，内心仍然有着美好的幻想，也坚信自己还是一位公主，也让身边的人对她敬畏，像她一样积极乐观的对待生活。小说的作者也有着和小说主人公一样的成长经历，作者也想通过这位小公主向大家传达她的观点，对待生活的热情，在逆境中成长，对一切都充满希望。
关键词：《小公主》；萨拉·克鲁；性格魅力；意蕴
Sara was a beautiful girl who had a kind heart and strong-minded characteristics. Like above, Sara’s charming characteristics and the implications of the author, it was clear for readers to understand this novel and the girl Sara. In this thesis, some main characteristics were about Sara. Kind-heartedness and strong-mindedness were important. From the beginning, Sara was a girl whose father was a rich man. In the private school, she was regarded as a little princess. She had everything she wanted and she never needed to do anything by herself. When her father was dead, she was alone and had no money. She became a maid in the school and she lived in a small and cold attic in which she had another world to live and made some special friends. In her poor times, she was kind to everyone. Her kind-heartedness moved people. Sara was a bright little girl, good at learning languages. She loved books and had “a hungry craving for everything readable” (Janice Kirkland, 1997, p.192). To get books, she made an arrangement with Ermengarde, who had trouble in reading the books her father sent her. Sara then told her what the books were about in a vivid way so that she could remember. Sara imagined the stories, as if her cold garret became a warm room full of comfortable furniture, shelves of books, and silver dishes of delicious food. By imagining, she almost forgot that she was cold and hungry. She realized that a real princess had not only a beautiful appearance, but also the inside beauty. Even though she was a poor, she was still a princess, a real beautiful princess. No matter what difficult she met, she solved it with strong-mindedness and had a kind heart to everyone. Through the hard time, Sara was found by her father’s friend and she was given a lot of money. She was a rich girl now. She used her money to help poor people and did her best to make people warm.
