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The Professor s House is Willa Cather s masterpiece in the middle of her writing career.As a symbolical novel,the artistic charm of The Professor s House lies in Cather s effective employment of the subtle and provocative symbols.This essay makes a comprehensive study of the symbolic implication of the images structured on houses to appreciate the beauty of Cather s arts. 相似文献
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孔蕊 《高等教育与学术研究》2006,(1)
Ⅰ. About Willa Cather Willa Cather is one of the most famous female writers in American literature. Cather puts the pioneer- ing spirits as a major subject matter in her works, while other American novelists glorify the heroic qual- ities of the pioneers. However, for Cather, heroism is not enough. She is interested in their determination to defend for the traditions as well as their willpower and endurance. She has quite a kind of perception on the American scene, and her useful memories… 相似文献
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Through analyzing the heroine Alexandra’s character and temperament in the novel "O Pioneers!"written by American woman writer Willa Cather,the paper is trying to put forward that the heroine Alexandra has a patriarchal tendency in her girlhood.This paper has established a basis for exploring Alexandra’s attitude to her own femaleness. 相似文献
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Kate Chopin,one of the most outstanding women writers in the late nineteenth century in America,focused on women’s social position,marriage and family,love and freedom to fight against patriarchalism.She wrote two novels and about a hundred short stories in the 1890s.And over a long period of time,critics have considered The Story of an Hour as a work of feminism which offers a strikingly feminist perspective on an American housewife of that time.This thesis analyzes the inner experience of the heroine within an hour and shows us that freedom is so essential to her while her marriage is a yoke to her. 相似文献
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王冬梅 《读与写:教育教学刊》2007,4(11):1-2
The Awakening is a remarkable work of feminism written by Kate Chopin. The novel mainly depicts how Edna comes to her awakening and develops into a new woman with a heartfelt concern for freedom, equality and independence. The novel had significant influence on the formation of women's literature and contributed a lot to the achievements of feminist movement. 相似文献
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Willa Cather’s Youth and the Bright Medusa first published in 1920 is a collection of eight stories of similar themes depicting the modern artists’ futile attempts to construct their art kingdom. This essay focuses on Cather’s antipathy toward monetary wealth and aesthet ic persistence and reflects on theartists’ dilemma in a philistine industrial society. 相似文献
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The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner’s greatest work; four narrators tell the story of the deterioration of the Compson family from different perspective, exploring the cause of deterioration indirectly. The novel centers on Caddy’s moral decay from different perspective. The thesis analyzes the processing fall of the Compson family through the analysis of three characters, Caddy, Quentin, and Jason. Caddy’s deterioration is closely related to her loss of virginity, and her impending wedding causes Quentin to commit suicide who loves her deeply and possessively. However, Jason is heartless who he does not care his family. His tragedy lies in the decay of human nature. The thesis gives the general cause of the downfall of the family and readers will have a general concept of the family’s deterioration. 相似文献
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Maggie Tulliver is the heroine of The Mill on the Floss. Nearly the girl’s whole course of life was described in this novel― from her sweet and painful childhood to her courageous death in order to save her beloved brother Tom. A passionate, intelligent and sexually attractive girl is completely unacceptable to the society of "angels at home". Her characteristics, undoubtedly, form a big challenge to the society in which she lived. And through the creation of such a special girl with resisting spirit, one is able to understand better George Eliot’s creative motive. 相似文献
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This thesis makes an analysis of the heroine’s mental growth from the initial phase of the heroine’s mental trauma to the struggling phase and to the mature phase. It analyzes the reasons and manifestations for her mental solitariness,expounds her confusion and struggling during her growth from the perspective of psychoanalysis and reveals her mental maturity in the end after a series of setbacks and conflicts during pursuit of affection,friendship and kinship. In some senses,the heroine’s mental growth displayed in this thesis is the psychological portrayal of some contemporary college students,which has certain educational significance to the student readers especially those who possess the similar life experience and accesses them to have an incisive understanding of real life. 相似文献
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张莉 《宿州教育学院学报》2003,6(1):68-69,81
This essay will analyze the heroine of 《Tess of the D'Urbervilles》 Tess by referring to the image"a bird in trap", First, two features of the bird, namely"a daughter of nature"and"to fly"are used to describe Tess' characteristics. Then, it is reasoned that how the bird falls into the trap, and what the trap refers to. 相似文献
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Scarlett,the heroine in Gone with the Wind,is always the disputed figure in the academic world.She gathers kinds of traits in herself,including contradiction intricacy and diversity.Then,Scarlett is a person not only selfish and rebellious,but also in the pursuit of equality and independence.What she eagerly seeks in her life is genuine love.To begin with her unique thought and conception,this thesis analyzes the characteristics of her self-assurance and self-reliance represented behind her selfishness and rebellion.It makes emphasis on the profound changes Scarlett has in terms of belief and self-value when she experiences the baptism of the Civil War.The process that she changes from a spoiled noble belle to an independent and confident businesswoman indicates the self-awareness of women has wakened up. 相似文献
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The Piano Lesson mainly focuses on the conflict caused by two opposite attitudes towards the heirloom-piano.The sister Berniece is determined to keep the piano and guard it,for she considers it as the " sacred icon" of the sacrificial history of her family.While the brother Boy Willie tries every way to sell it,desiring to make a fortune by buying a farm and work on it.Both attitudes have their limitations respectively,which forces the siblings to turn to the traditional way to solve the conflict.They then realize how to use the piano-the symbol of history and cultural legacy.That is to keep it and use it. 相似文献
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It is said that there is no hero in The Merchant of Venice, but a heroine, who is Portia, an independent, intelligent and beautiful Renaissance lady, who makes great efforts to grasp and defend her happiness. Her excellent performance in Shylock’s suit also exhibits her extraordinary splendor as the focus of the whole play. However, she has to accept the conventional orientation for a woman’s fate, obedient to her father and her husband, and yet she cannot participate in the social career unless in disguise. 相似文献
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Since the publication of the Good Earth in 1922, Pearl S, Buck published another two novels based on the same theme and they were called the House of Earth Trilogy. The House of Earth Trilogy used as a window to understand China for the westerners at that time. And it had a great impact on the whole world. People gave two different views on her success of winning so many awards. Some thought that she wrote what she knew and her works were based on her own experiences. But others said that she was a foreigner and her values, her distinct aesthetic views would affect her writing. So, some of her depictions, to some extent, were untruthful and distorted. The aim of writing this thesis is to give an objective judgment on the Good Earth, and make it easier for us to communicate with the westerners on literature. 相似文献
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Thomas Hardy is an outstanding novelist in the nineteenth century.He has produced numerous works including novels and poetry.His tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles has a great impact on the world literature.The paper is focused on the exploration of Tess’s tragedy through her life experiences.Tess’s tragedy can be illustrated by three factors—her family aspects,love experiences and her social images,which also contribute collectively to poor Tess’s destiny.The social background of the period provides a basis for the novel,and the deformed social values and morality is the root of her tragedy,together with her personal temperament and the Christian religious influences.Christian mores of self-sacrifice,wide love and purity have a great effect on characters in the novel.In the fourth part,there is some enlightenment from Tess’s tragedy.It is believed that women play a crucial role in society.Tess is a woman with good qualities and her experiences give a warning to women today:the proper treatment of one’s behaviors and the social rules is critical. 相似文献
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Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte,who was a famous British woman novelist.In Jane Eyre,the author describes a heroine Jane Eyre who shows her rebelliousness to the indifferent and unequal society in her time and revealed the tragic life of common people,especially of women and children,under Capitalism.Meanwhile,this novel also provides such an important theme that women should enjoy an equal position with men both in family and social life.The heroine Jane is neither beautiful,nor rich,but her rebellion,independence and her pursuit of love strike us deeply.Jane Eyre sets a good example for women.Therefore,Jane Eyre becomes the typical figure with female consciousness.This paper is to analyze the typical character in Jane Eyre from the different periods of her life and conclude that Jane comes to self consciousness in this process.From the analysis of Jane’s splendid character,we can see the awakening of female consciousness in that period of time. 相似文献
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LIU Li-hua 《海外英语》2014,(16):210-212
Henry James' s first novella Daisy Miller brought him popularity and literary reputation after its publication. Through the application of reader theory and a close reading of the text, this article analyzes Daisy's strong personality and her misfortunes during her trip to Europe, and reveals how the novella highlights the conflict between American frankness and innocence and European sophistication. Besides, this article also elaborates on James' unique artistic skills—central consciousness and psychological analysis through his choice of narrative point of view, which contribute to the theme and the artistic charm of DaisyMiller. 相似文献
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Social conventions sometimes are regarded as valuable treasure in some culture. But it can also lead to human tragedy. The Arti cle here tried to look into the social and religious conventions behind the human tragedy in Richard Jefferies’ short story "the Acorn Gath erer" and how those conventions and people’s belief affect the relationship between the grandmother and her grandson in the short story. The article discussed the underlying causes to the tragedy from three aspects, the outside pressure, the inner factors and the problem of the society. It attempted to explain how the social pressure influenced the attitude and action of the grandmother, how her inner belief com pelled herself to maltreat the boy and how the social convention and religious belief made the society seemingly pitiless and indifferent. It is also indicated that social and religious conventions still have a lasting effect on how people think and act in today’s world. 相似文献
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As is known to everyone, Henry David Thoreau was an outstanding American writer in the 19th century. However, he did not attract much attention at that time. In fact, Thoreau did not have a profound influence on American culture until the 20th century. It is generally acknowledged that his masterpiece Walden is one of the most outstanding literary works, in which the richness of thoughts contributes greatly to the spread of Thoreau's philosophy. Thanks to it, Thoreau's philosophy has attracted more and more attention. It is pleasantly surprised for a Chinese reader to find Confucianism in an American classical work of the 19th century. Many scholars have studied Confucianism in Walden in order to analyze how Confucianism influences Thoreau. However, these studies more or less overstate or understate the influence of Confucianism. Therefore, such a research does have great practical significance, that is, to objectively analyze how Confucianism influences an American writer and how it is repre?sented in his representative work. 相似文献