摘要：This paper discusses the growth of female self-consciousness fulfilled by women’s attempt to unite form and contingency in their life and the liberation for androcentric fantasy by scrutinizing Murdoch’s novel A Fairly Honourable Defeat and her philosophical texts. Murdoch applies her philosophical concepts of form and contingency to the characterization of female figures and attempts to combine the fixed form of the world with the uncertainty of life. The paper reveals that the vacillation in women’s opinion between form and contingency proves their speculation quality, which is essential for the growth of self-consciousness and demonstrates the growth of female self-consciousness along with rethinking their life and reevaluating themselves with full self-consciousness in this novel.
