共查询到20条相似文献，搜索用时 751 毫秒
1.
"The Great Gatsby",a fiction by Fitzgerald,is about the failure of the American dream.For the protagonist Gatsby,He is the true heir to American dream.He devotes his whole life to pursues his dream of romantic success without ever understand ing that it has escaped him.Finally,he dies in his pursuit.His failure symbolizes the disillusion of American dream. 相似文献
2.
Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and is renowned above all for the astonishing subtlety of her short stories.Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the female coming to terms with family, friends in a small town. This paper attempts to make a brief introduction about the stories of Alice Munro’s Runaway and explores the protagonist’s choices in the dilemma situation, and then exposes the cruelty of reality is that they cannot get rid of the ineluctable reality of life. Escape is only a temporary action which cannot save them from endless triviality of life. What they should do is not to escape from life, but to adapt to the reality of life. 相似文献
3.
4.
"The Old Man and The Sea"is Hemingway latter years’masterpiece,with which he was awarded the Nobel prize in1954.As the protagonist of the novel,Santiago plays a vital role to the novel’s motif.Hemingway expresses his attitudes toward the life through the image of Santiago.The paper intends to explore the character of Santiago from different facets and angles.In the end,we reach a conclusion that Santiago is a strong-willed man with a young,indestructible soul,he is kind,sensitive as well as hardworking.In a ward,he is a perfect Hemingway hero. 相似文献
5.
A Künstlerroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which character change is thus extremely important. A portrait of the artist as a young man as a Künstlerroman also shows the growth process of the protagonist from childhood to youth. The paper aims to point out the growth process of the protagonist focusing on the text. Especially, from the two aspects: content and form. The content and the form together reflect the growth process of the protagonist and the development of his personality, so we also see the protagonist was destined to be mature and at last decided to escape his home, exile himself and began his new life with the purpose of art. 相似文献
6.
Ernest Hemingway is a great talented writer in American literature. The Snows of Kilimanjaro is considered to be one of his best stories.“plane”is a recurring image in this novel. Through analyze symbolism meaning of“plane”,we can find that“plane”as a line run through the whole novel and is a symbol of different redemption meanings when presents in different places,which builts a redemption trajectory from the corruption of body to the rising of spirit. The paper analyze“splane”as symbol of redemption from three parts: the redemption of body; the redemption that protagonist needs; the redemption of soul. 相似文献
7.
By analyzing the details of Araby,this paper is to prove that in Araby James Joyce puts the boy’s personal yearning for idealized romance vis-à-vis several irresistible hindrances so as to reveal the doomed pointlessness of an individual’s holding his ideal and passion in a reality with prevailing spiritual paralysis. 相似文献
8.
"The Story of an Hour", Kate Chopin's representative work, is a classic story in American Literature in the 19th century. In this story, Chopin depicts a woman who eventually unshackle herself from mental suppression and realizes her freedom. This arti-cle reaches the conclusion that the protagonist is indeed repressed by the stereotype that imposed by the society. 相似文献
9.
邹滢 《读与写:教育教学刊》2011,(2):1-2
As one of T.S.Eliot’s earliest and most famous poem,"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is characterized by typical modernism.It reveals the psyche of the "modern man" in predicament represented by Prufrock who is trapped in a dilemma about whether to make a change of his life or not.Making use of various artistic techniques,the poet successfully explores the theme of the spiritual emptiness and frustration of people in modern western society via the protagonist’s melancholy debate with himself. 相似文献
10.
This thesis analyses Death of a Salesman from the perspective of existentialism.By probing into the story with Sartre’s theory of freedom,this thesis concludes that the protagonist’s living environment and his choice are both responsible for his death.But it also tells us no matter how difficult our situation is,we always have freedom to choose.Everyone can live a mean ingful life through his choice. 相似文献
11.
The protagonist in Invisible Man experiences many painful incidents and gradually grows into a mature individual. He undergoes the transformation from with self-oriented ambition to racial-oriented ambition, and then to self-oriented ambition in a new sense. The process of his transformation can be seen from his changing contemplations on words by his grandfather. The process of his transformation is also a process of pursuing his identity. 相似文献
12.
Donald Barthelme is known for his playful,postmodernist style of short fiction.In his The Glass Mountain,he created an absurd world shocking to readers.This paper explores the reality behind the absurd story based on the analysis of its the post-modernism features to better the understanding of the fiction. 相似文献
13.
The fictions of Franz Kafka are full of many ironical allegories.Through the analysis of the great suffering of the family caused by the transformation of the protagonist into a monster in"the metamorphosis"by Franz Kafka,especially on the basis of elaborating the internal artistic characteristics in this story,this paper tends to show that the writer penetratingly described the human feelings of extreme loneliness and solitude in the modern society and he also attacked the society at that time through the technique of his absurd and paradoxical expression. 相似文献
14.
G. B. Shaw names his play Pygmalion by a protagonist in Metamorphoses Book Ten, so that he connects the enlivened ivory statue with the dramatically changed flower girl. Great culture significance was attached to this play. At the same time, the originality which is different from the original myth displays the author’s effort to explore female self- creation. 相似文献
15.
LESK Michael 《浙江大学学报(A卷英文版)》2005,6(11):1169-1178
SUMMARY Critics of large digitization projects say that the quality of information available to students is being lost in a rush to increase its quantity. But in reality the larger amounts of material mean that it is more likely students can find appropriate and relevant documents. What is happening is that people react to the large quantities of material on the Web and the power of the search engines by seeking the right places to read, rather than being limited to a few items by scarcity … 相似文献
16.
e.e. Cummings’Poetry’s theme is the cycle of life, and"black against white"could be indicating life death versus life. It shows that even though a leaf falling may be an indication of death, falling of leaves is an integral part of the whole life cycle of the tree. !blac may seem like a simple mess of words, but in reality is much more complex than that. 相似文献
17.
《读与写:教育教学刊》2007,(10)
The Story of Joseph, from his sold to Egypt to his reunion with his family, is one of the longest stories of "The Old Testament". It's a story of a young man's growth which belongs to the fictional tradition of bildungsroman in the West. This paper explores the techniques of Joseph's characterization in the process of Joseph's reunion with his brothers. 相似文献
18.
Invisible Man is both a historical biography of the black man in America and an anguish process of man’s quest for identity in the dehumanizing and absurd society of racial discrimination. Personal weakness of the protagonist: his effort to evade his past functions as the last straw leading to his invisibility. Therefore, this paper tries to analyze the cause of the invisibility of the protagonist by further textual analysis in an attempt to reveal how a nameless African American reflects the existential crisis of modern man. 相似文献
19.
The character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is a controversial character that has aroused severe debate among critics and readers long since it was published in 1847.He is considered is a cruel devil and his acts in this novel are too far beyond a normal human’s moral acceptance.However,in spit of physical strength and his power of revenge,he is in a way also a victim of love and society.His destiny is doomed since he came into this world as the one who is"The Other"to take the revenge. 相似文献
20.
Zhang Zhiyuan 《中华现代教育》2007,(1):39-43
Wiliam Wordsowrth ,as the leading figure of the English Romantic Movement in poetry,has made great contribution in poetic theory,His poetic beliefs and achievements have always been the focus of literary studies,In this paper ,his most representative poem“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”is closely examined to demonstrate how Wordsworth applies his poetic principles to his own creations,especially how Wordsworth realize the fusion of reality and strong emtion in this poem by using his great imagination. 相似文献