AbstractPossession belongs to the Neo-Victorian novel. In this novel, Byatt creatively reproduces the true life of female intellectuals living in the Victorian Age and revives the distorted images of the female by the traditional male-dominated culture.Through the letters,dairies and poems by the Victorian females, Byatt tries to reveal the truth of existential and the psychological status of those females marginalized by the patriarchal society, deconstruct and subvert the male-centered narrative discourse in the traditional text and put forward her feminist’s view that females will move from margin to center in future society. This paper thought the usage of character analysis method, aims to better control Byatt’s feminism thought.This paper intends to offer a fresh analysis of the book from the author’s own view to literature. The emphasis in this analysis is on three subjects which Byatt very often approached in her works but never as poignant than in Possession: feminism, the nature of fiction and the overrating of literary theories. This paper contains four part: The first part is the literature review, including the brief introduction of Byatt, possession, the feminism, through the analysis of this part, we can get a general understanding of this novel, its influence and the feminism ideas of Byatt. The second part is the discussion about the feminism in this novel and Byatt’s artistic technology in Possession. Including The Symbols in Possession to Present Feminism Thoughts, and the Unique Narrative Stragegy and Feminism. Through the analysis in this part, we can get a better understanding of Byatt’s feminism narrative strategies, then learn more about the feminism view in this novel. The...
