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William Golding’s masterpiece,Lord of the Flies,enabled him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.Golding considered this novel as a myth,since he applied plenty of archetypes from Greek mythology and the Bible to this novel.This thesis is to ana lyze the main characters and images in it from a myth-archetypal perspective to reveal the author’s writing purpose. 相似文献
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Beyond the stories,Golding spends much effort on an issue called"impotence of language"in his works,especially Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible.Thus Golding’s language view is worthwhile to research.With help of Lacan’s theory of signifier and signified,this paper made a primary glance about Golding’s language view within the two novels. 相似文献
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Symbolism is one of the most important and effective means in English writing."Lord of the Flies"written by William Golding is a successful use of it and has received hot discussions from its publication. The symbolic meaning of the characters and the Conch and the Fire in the novel make the novel an allegory that is entirely symbolic. 相似文献
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The Age of Innocence is novel of realism,in which the protagonist is trapped between dream and reality.By using Sar tre’s existentialism theory,this thesis analyses that the protagonist chooses reality against his will because of dishonesty.And the reason is that his freedom is restricted in the"situation"of other people. 相似文献
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The Unicorn in the Garden,written by James Thurber,is an ironic short story.It is believed that this short story can be considered as a representative of the war between men and women.The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the use of symbolism in this short novel and therefore reveal the indifferent relationship and marital conflict between the husband and the wife.By the interpretation of the symbolic meanings of several images,this thesis will explore the humor,theme,as well as the characters of the husband and the wife. 相似文献
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The film Elephant is novel not only in its narrative style and abundant use of long shots, but also in its selection of two pieces of piano music. What the movie lenses hope to express is the same thing that the will of piano music does. Alex is not only a player of the two pieces of piano music but also a singer of the elephant.The thesis applies Schopenhauer’s will theory in music to analyze Alex’s song《For Elise》and《Moonlight Sonata》and to anatomize his mental activity and brewing of thought. By using the power of piano music this thesis aims at digging out how he becomes the singer of the elephant. 相似文献
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Invisible Man is a representative work of black literature in America.In this novel,the writer Ralph Ellison depicts the hero’s growth experience in the white dominated society with his unique narrative techniques.As an individual in a society,the hero in this novel gradually realizes that he is an invisible man in the white dominated society and he doesn’t have the social sta tus which can be recognized by the white at all.To change this situation,the hero in this novel suffers many difficulties and hard ships with an attempt to prove his existence in front of the white and the numerous black fellows and obtain his own identity as a black man which will be recognized by others.This paper tries to explore African American’s pursuit of identity in Invisible Man by interpreting Ellison’s Invisible Man. 相似文献
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Animal Farm,full of symbolism,is regarded as a classic portrayal of anti-utopianism in the real world and a satire on the Russian Revolution.George Orwell expresses his views of totalitarianism by using animals to represent the major characters from the period of the Russian Revolution,from Karl Marx and Tsar Nicholas II to Stalin and Trotsky.His characters and scenar io paint a vision of a world of communism in Soviet Union,and Animal Farm chronicles the events and people of the Russian Revolution.Based on the historical background of the novel,this thesis is to reveal the real-life counterparts that the fictional characters in Animal Farm represent,thus uncovering the true meaning of the story. 相似文献
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One feature of Golding’ s works is to reveal the theme-the evil nature of man,through the characters’ mystical experience.This is obvious in Darkness Visible and Lord of the Flies.This paper tries to find out the resource for the writer to use mystical experience through biological approach. 相似文献
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Black female writer, Alice Walker is always misunderstood as a writer who attaches more attention to the contents and thoughts in her works. But the success of her work The Color Purple fully demonstrates her ability of exquisitely adopting artistic expressions to realize the integration of contents and form. So this paper aims to study three artistic expressions applied in this novel, that is, the epistolary style, symbolism of the real objects and psychological transformation of the characters. Furthermore, it’s illustrational to show in this thesis that Alice Walker is not only a writer with deep thoughts, but also an imaginative and creative master of excelling in her writing techniques. 相似文献
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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
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This thesis aims to analyze the main character of the novel Wuthering Heights from a psychoanalytical perspective.By using techniques adapted from psychoanalysis,this thesis finds that the complex character Heathcliff at first reading is easier to understand,and indeed fits into some of the basic victim-persecutor patterns identified in traditional psychoanalytical work.From Heathcliff we can see the importance of one’s psychology and the power of psychoanalysis. 相似文献
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The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald is widely recognized as the cultural document of the Jazz Age.The novel seems to be a love story,but in fact it is about the disillusionment of American Dream-Gatsby’s failure in pursuing his long-cherished dream.Since its publication,the novel has been very popular among ordinary readers and literary critics as well.By applying archetypal criticism developed by Northrop Frye,this paper aims to give a detailed and comprehensive interpretation of the protagonist,Gatsby,and reveal the significance of his tragedy.To some extent,it is the archetypal character that enhances the profundity of the novel and arouses the readers’ response. 相似文献
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles,Tomas Hardy’s masterpiece,was published in 1891,marking a turning point in Hardy’s literary life.This essay attempts to analyze Tess of the d’Urbervilles in the light of Ecocriticism and seeks to throw a new light on this novel.Through a close study of the relationship between Tess and nature,the essay interprets the process of Tess’s tragedy as the inharmonious relationship between nature and the modern civilization which is represented by Alec and Angel.In this way,this thesis tries to provide a fresh perspective that may enable us to realize the importance of environmental protection and have a better understanding of this novel. 相似文献
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Ecocriticism is a new-born literary criticism that delves into the exposition of the relationship between human beings and other specimen in nature from the literary angle as well as observes and discloses in detail and with sincerity the effect of literature in the human activities and natural environment. The thesis combines the theory of ecocriticism with romanticism to study Wordsworth’s romantic poetry from an ecological perspective as Wordsworth,the great“worshipper of nature”can also be called an ecological critic since many of his poems are focused on ecological themes and he expresses his passion on an ecological basis. Going through the thesis is the most fundamental concept of ecocriticism: ecological holism. Supporting this backbone is analyzes of selected paradigmatic romantic poems by Wordsworth. 相似文献
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This essay is going to read the different kinds of beings in The Lord of the Rings as different stages of man,and to analyze how they construct or destruct their selves respectively over power.The Lord of the Rings is read as a story about the self-construction and self-destruction of man,who begins to construct the sense of self from a very early stage in life,and becomes who he is in the continuous process of trying to identify himself with the image that keeps changing,of the frequently alternative construction and destruction of his self,and of intersubjectivity,the interrelation with other subjects. 相似文献
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Stephen Crane is one of the greatest figures in the history of American literature and his novella The Open Boat is widely known by people all over the world as a representative work of Naturalism. This paper aims at exploring Naturalism in Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat,which will guide the readers to understand American Naturalism accurately and thoroughly. It firstly introduces the author and his novel The Open Boat. Secondly,it progressively dissects Naturalism. It not only analyses the general characteristics of Naturalism with details in The Open Boat,but also interprets the distinguishing features of American Naturalism so that readers can better understand the features of American Naturalism. Through textual perusal,it further studies the unique characteristics of Stephen Crane’s Naturalism and lays particular emphasis on Crane’s special concern on the awakening of humanity. It is hoped that this thesis can help readers get an in-depth comprehension of Naturalism and gain some inspiration from TheOpenBoat. 相似文献
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Edgar Allan Poe,a writer of a Romanism,is well-known for his grotesque and grim style of writing.In most of his grotesque and grim works,describing females is his major method to express his own emotion.All of these women usually have a perfect appearance and passionate character,but are afflicted with mysterious illness.It is a conventional means of voicing feeling for Allan Poe to describe the heroes' deep pain and their yearning for the beautiful heroines.This thesis will introduce Allan Poe's legendary life and analyze the features of the females in his life and works under the background of the United States at Edgar Allan Poe's times.And this thesis will describe of his denial of the patriarchy. 相似文献
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Eugene O’Neill,one of the essential writers of the 20th century,was hailed as the“American Shakespeare.”He enjoyed a high reputation in America owing to his special writing techniques.Long Day’s Journey into Night was his last play,which was an autobiographical play to some extent,and founded on his own authentic experience.The play told the story of an Irish immigrant family’s daily life from day to night.Among the studies at home and abroad,many discuss this play from a psychological perspective and Feminist perspective.The article,instead,gives an interpretation of this play according to Cooperative Principle.Through the analysis of their conversations,it points out what principles their communications violated so as to understand the implied meaning of their conversations.The thesis tries to study the conversations between Mary and other family members,and then demonstrate that Mary is the most tragic person in the family. 相似文献
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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