| Abstract: | Toni Morrison is widely recognized as American's preeminent novelist.As the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning novelist,her stature as a post war American novelist can be no doubt compared to that of great novelists like Hemingway and Faulkner.Historically alert,Toni Morrison magnificently explores the life of the black,especiaiiy that of black women.Her Nobel Prize Lecture.in which she again tells a story of a black wom- an.can be regarded as an epitome of Mortison's works.The dialogue between the blind black old woman and the young people is full of wisdom and profoundness.Like many great works,Morrison's Lecture can also be traced back to some ancient archetypes,this thesis attempts to use archetypal theories to probe into the archetypes in Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture from characters, and theme.These archetypes denote deeper meaning of the author. |
